Posts contained in the “African-American” category:

Literature in which the primary characters are African-American, also including characters of African descent from the Caribbean or Europe who live in the United States.

Angry Management by Chris Crutcher


Share this…             In this engaging trilogy of novellas, Chris Crutcher has taken a handful of characters from his earlier works—Sarah Byrnes, Angus Bethune, John Simet, Matt Miller, and Montana West—and imagined them “living outside of their original times and in some cases outside of their original settings” as he describes in his introduction (n. pag.). If …read more…


Every Man for Himself: Ten Short Stories About Being a Guy edited by Nancy Mercado


Share this…             I don’t know how I missed this one, but I did. And I’m a bit upset about that, because there are some fine stories in here. I warmed to this book from the very beginning, because Nancy Mercado tells us …what these stories are not. They are not stories about your voice changing, learning …read more…