Lover Man (McNally Editions)Stories of loners, outsiders, tricksters, addicts, jazzmen, and drifters in the Jim Crow Southa classic of 1950s Black fiction. Raw, fearless, ironic, the stories in Lover Man (1958) promised the birth of a new sensibility in American fiction. Inspired by the bebop he loved, and the philosophy he studied at the Sorbonne, Alston Anderson looked back at the North Carolina of his youth to capture the hidden lives of Black boys and men in the early 1940s.

a fantastic mystery tale

The story of the bewildering task of separating the Vietcong from ordinary villagers is the dramatic core of The Village of Ben Suc

Some discoloration to edge of pages

Chiamaka’s bold

good condition

How and why did experience and knowledge become separated

and boredom

after endlessly agonizing about matters of form and style

In seventy poems bearing the same title

the government bans them from Earth

Ishmael Reed’s latest feat of research and drama

Diane di Prima