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Books by Robert Fleming
African American Writers
Handbook /
The Wisdom of the Elders
After Hours: A Collection of
Erotic Writing by Black Men /
Intimacy: Erotic Stories of Love, Lust, and Marriage by Black
Men
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After Hours: A Collection of
Erotic Writing by Black Men
Edited By Robert Fleming
(Penguin Putnam, 256 pages, $14)
Contributors
Robert Scott Adams is a
published poet and established jazz critic. A native of
Rochester; N.Y, he attended Morehouse College. This is his first
foray into the erotic fiction genre.
Curtis Bunn, a national
award-winning sports columnist for the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution, is the author of the novel
Baggage
Check, his debut work of fiction which remained on the Essence
magazine bestseller list for five months. He is a graduate
of Norfolk State University. His new work,
Bookclub, a
collection of five short stories, chronicles the lives and loves
of members of five different bookclubs.
Colin Channer is the
bestselling author of the novels
Waiting in Vain
and
Satisfy
My Soul. His novella, Still Waiting, was published
in the highly popular anthology
Got to Be Real. Waiting in
Vain was selected as a 1998 Critics Choice by The
Washington Post Book World and excerpted in
Hot Spots:
The Best Erotic Writing In Modern Fiction. Channer is
the founder and artistic director of the Cal-abash International
Literary Festival, the only literary festival in the
English-speaking Caribbean. A native of Kingston, Jamaica, he
lives in Brooklyn with his family. Write to him at colinchanner@hotmail.com
Brian Egleston is the
author of three published novels, including his very popular
Granddaddy's
Dirt. An aspiring golfer, he lives with his lovely wife,
Latise, in Georgia, where he spends most of his time writing,
thinking of writing and longing to write.
Arthur Flowers is
the author of two novels,
De Mojo Blues
and Another Good Loving Blues, and a nonfiction work, Mojo Rising:
Confessions of a 21st Century Conjureman. He is performance
artist, Executive Director of New Renaissance Writers Guild-NYC,
and fiction professor in the Syracuse University MFA program.
Tracy Grant's first
novel,
Hellified, won national acclaim. He earned his
undergraduate degree at Georgetown University and did his
graduate work there as well. After graduate school, he hit his
stride as a freelance writer publishing work in several
magazines including YSB, Today's Black Woman, Black Issues
Book Review, and Mosaic Literary Magazine. He is currently
an adjunct English professor at the College of New Rochelle's
School of New Resources. His second novel, Chocolate Thai, a
political thriller is forthcoming. He lives in New York City
Kenji Jasper is a
novelist, screenwriter and journalist from Washington, D.C. The
author of two novels,
Dark and
Dakota Grand, his
work has appeared in Essence, Vibe, The Source, and many
other national publications. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New
York.
Charles Johnson, a 1998
MacAtthur Fellow, received the National Book Award for his novel
Middle Passage in 1990. He has published three other
novels, Dreamer (1998),
Oxherding Tale (1982) and
Faith
and the Good Thing (1974), as well as two short story
collections,
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1986) and
Soulcatcher
(2001). Among his many nonfiction books are: King: The
Photobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr (coauthored with
Bob Adelman, 2000),
Africans in America: America's Journey
through Slavery (coauthored with Patricia Smith, 1998),
Being
and Race: Black Writing Since 1970 (1988),
Black Men
Speaking (coedited with John McCluskey, Jr., 1997), and two
books of drawings. His work has appeared in numerous
publications in America and abroad. A literary critic,
screenwriter lecturer and cartoonist, he has received the
Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Award from the Corporate
Council for the Arts as well as many other awards. Currently, he
is the S. Wilson and
Grace M. Pollock Endowed
Professor of English at the University of Washington in Seattle.
You may visit his homepage at www.previewport.comlllome/johnsonc.html.
Clarence Major is a
prize-winning poet, novelist and essayist. A major figure in the
Black Arts Movement, he won a National Council on the Arts award
for his collection
Swallow the Lake in 1970. He was a
finalist for the National Book Award for another collection,
Configurations, and has written several 6ther fiction and
nonfiction books considered milestones in African American
literature, including All-Night
Visitors, No,
Reflex and Bone Structure
,
Dark and Feeling, Such Was the
Season , and
Surfaces and Masks. His novel
My Amputations won the Western
State Book Award in 1985. He directs the Creative Writing
Program at the University of California, Davis.
Brandon Massey is the
author of
Thunderland, his self-published debut novel
which won a Cold Pen Award for Best Thriller from the Black
Writers Alliance. The book will be reprinted by Kensington Books
in December2002. Massey is one of a growing number of African
American authors who write horror-suspense fiction. He lives in
Georgia.
Alexs D. Pate is the
author of five novels, including
Amistad, a New York
Times bestseller, which was commissioned by Steven
Spielberg's Dreamworks SKG. Pate's debut novel,
Losing
Absalom, was awarded Best First Novel by the Black Caucus of
the American Library Association and a 1995 Minnesota Best Award
for best fiction.
Finding Makeba; his second book, was
named by Essence magazine as a "top five family
classic." His fourth novel,
Multicultiboho Sideshow, won
the 2000 Minnesota Book Award. He has published numerous essays
and commentary in national publications. He is currently an
Assistant Professor of Afro-American and African Studies at the
University of Minnesota, where he teaches writing and black
literature.
Eric E. Pete is
the author of three novels, including
Real for Me and
Someone's
in the Kitchen. A native of Seattle, Washington, he is a
graduate of McNeese University. Currently living in the New
Orleans area, he is working on his fourth novel. He can be
contacted at heyeric@att.net.
Brian Peterson is the
author of the novel
Move Over, Girl. Born in Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania, he finished his undergraduate degree and master's
in Education at the University of Pennsylvania's School of
Engineering. A resident of Philadelphia, he is currently
finishing a new novel.
Gary Philips is the
creator of the Ivan Monk PI series and the mystery novels
featuring Martha Chainey, ex-showgirl and Vegas cold cash
courier. A native of South Central Los Angeles, he has also
writ-ten several other novels, many short stories, and a wealth
of articles and commentaries on pop culture for countless
national newspapers and magazines.
Cole Riley gained
notoriety as the author of five popular novels, including
Hot
Snake Nights,
The Devil to Pay
and The Killing Kind. Born
in the Midwest, he became known as a master of gritty urban
noir fiction in the late 1980s with the publication of his novel
Rough Trade. His last work, The Forbidden Art of
Desire, was selected by the Black Expressions book club as a
part of the notable
Indigo After Dark series. An
extremely private person and lover of nightlife, he has been
known to keep a low profile during waking hours. He is presently
working on a new novel,
Harlem
Confidential.
Earl Sewell is
the author of two novels,
The Good Got to Suffer with the Bad
and
Taken for Granted. He studied fiction writing at
Columbia College in Chicago. He presently lives in Palatine,
Illinois, where he is completing his 'latest novel, Grown
Folks' Business.
Jervey Tervalon is
an acclaimed novelist, poet, screenwriter and dramatist. His
well-received debut novel,
Understand This, won the
1994 New Voices Award from the Quality Paperback Book Club. Two
other Tervalon novels,
Living for the City and
Dead
Above Ground, captured the praise of critics, readers and
fellow writers alike. A native of New Orleans, he earned his
B.A. degree at the College of Creative Studies at the University
of California, Santa Barbara and completed his MFA work in
fiction writing at the University of California, Irvine. Today,
he teaches writing at California State University in Los
Angeles. He lives in Altadena, California with his wife and
daughters. His most recent novel is
All the Trouble You Need.
Kalamu Ya Salaam is
a New Orleans-based writer; editor, filmmaker and teacher. He is
the founder of the Nommo Literary Society, a black writers
workshop, and co-founder of Runagate Multimedia publishing
company. He also serves as leader of the WordBand, a poetry
performance ensemble, and moderator of e-Drum, a listserv for
black writers. His latest achievements are
360: A Revolution of Black Poets and
My Story My Song, a spoken word CD. He can be reached at kalamu@aol.com.
John A. Wfliiams is
the author of a dozen novels, among them
The Angry Ones,
Night Song,
The Man Who Cried I Am, and
!Click Song. His
most recent novel is
Clifford's Blues. In addition, he's
published eight nonfiction books, three of which are studies on
Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Wright, and Richard Pryor.
Williams has also edited or co-edited ten more works, published
a volume of poetry, and written two plays and the libretto for
the opera Vanqui, whose premiere was followed by seven
additional performances. He is a former writer for Holiday and
was a Newsweek correspondent in Europe, the Middle East,
and Africa during the early sixties. He moved into academics as
a Distinguished Professor of English in the CUNY system and
later was the Paul Robeson Professor of English and Journalism
at Rutgers University, a p9sition from which he retired in 1995.
He is a two-time recipient of the American Book Award, member of
the National literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African
Descent, and winner of several other honors. He is presently
completing three additional works. Robert Fleming has written numerous articles for Essence,
Black Enterprise, The Source, and The New York Times,
among others. He is the author of the
African American Writers
Handbook and
The Wisdom of the Elders. His poetry, essays,
and fiction have appeared in numerous periodical and books, including
Brown Sugar (available from Plume). He lives in New York City.
After Hours (256p)
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Salvage the Bones
A Novel by Jesmyn Ward
On one level, Salvage the Bones is a simple story about a poor black family that’s about to be trashed by one of the most deadly hurricanes in U.S. history. What makes the novel so powerful, though, is the way Ward winds private passions with that menace gathering force out in the Gulf of Mexico. Without a hint of pretension, in the simple lives of these poor people living among chickens and abandoned cars, she evokes the tenacious love and desperation of classical tragedy. The force that pushes back against Katrina’s inexorable winds is the voice of Ward’s narrator, a 14-year-old girl named Esch, the only daughter among four siblings. Precocious, passionate and sensitive, she speaks almost entirely in phrases soaked in her family’s raw land. Everything here is gritty, loamy and alive, as though the very soil were animated. Her brother’s “blood smells like wet hot earth after summer rain. . . . His scalp looks like fresh turned dirt.” Her father’s hands “are like gravel,” while her own hand “slides through his grip like a wet fish,” and a handsome boy’s “muscles jabbered like chickens.” Admittedly, Ward can push so hard on this simile-obsessed style that her paragraphs risk sounding like a compost heap, but this isn’t usually just metaphor for metaphor’s sake. She conveys something fundamental about Esch’s fluid state of mind: her figurative sense of the world in which all things correspond and connect. She and her brothers live in a ramshackle house steeped in grief since their mother died giving birth to her last child. . . . What remains, what’s salvaged, is something indomitable in these tough siblings, the strength of their love, the permanence of their devotion.— WashingtonPost
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Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in
America
By Melissa V.
Harris-Perry
According to the
author, this society has historically exerted
considerable pressure on black females to fit into one
of a handful of stereotypes, primarily, the Mammy, the
Matriarch or the Jezebel. The selfless
Mammy’s behavior is marked by a slavish devotion to
white folks’ domestic concerns, often at the expense of
those of her own family’s needs. By contrast, the
relatively-hedonistic Jezebel is a sexually-insatiable
temptress. And the Matriarch is generally thought of as
an emasculating figure who denigrates black men, ala the
characters Sapphire and Aunt Esther on the television
shows Amos and Andy and Sanford and Son, respectively.
Professor Perry
points out how the propagation of these harmful myths
have served the mainstream culture well. For instance,
the Mammy suggests that it is almost second nature for
black females to feel a maternal instinct towards
Caucasian babies.
As for the source
of the Jezebel, black women had no control over their
own bodies during slavery given that they were being
auctioned off and bred to maximize profits. Nonetheless,
it was in the interest of plantation owners to propagate
the lie that sisters were sluts inclined to mate
indiscriminately.
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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