This fast-growing publishing genre knows how to get a book buyers' attention!
by Evette Brown These former incarcerated authors turned their sentences into real-life experiences for millions of readers. Dominating the Essence and New York Times bestsellers lists, respectively, street literature, officially recognized as urban fiction, has evolved into a permanent part of American literature. Telling the often tragic stories of African-American men trapped in the gritty […]
“Representing the race” remains a prickly issue in black literature By Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond In the 40-plus years since Robert “Iceberg Slim” Beck released Pimp, the audience for so-called “street literature” has remained faithful to the genre, making bestsellers of Beck’s contemporaries and successors like Donald Goines, Omar Tyree, Teri Woods, and more recently Sister […]
(SOHH) — I think the influence of my father’s books really comes from [courtesy of] the Internet. If it wasn’t for the Internet, we would have never really taken hold of his book catalogue. His royalties weren’t really good. My father passed away in 1992 and not too much later, around 199, my sister started […]
by Charing Ball As a teenager I dabbled a little – okay a lot – in what is now referred to as Street Lit. Back then, I really didn’t view books about urban life as separate from traditional forms of African-American literature. For me, they were black books by black authors and that was good […]