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Let This Search Be Over
In Search of Pretty Young Black Men
Stanley Bennett Clay
Stanley Bennett Clay
As printed here previously on books like In Search of Pretty
Young Black Men, it comes as some amazement as to why
publishers continue to dish out novels both so pointless and
horrendously written that it leaves worthy, unpublished
novelists by the wayside. It is without a doubt that there are
a multitude of unpublished straight and gay African
American male writers who will never get a chance to display
their talents for books like this. What is of further
amazement (and embarrassment by turn) is that this novel
is by writer Stanley Bennett Clay, author, director and
co-producer of Ritual, which earned him three NAACP
Theater Awards. More
Young Black Men, it comes as some amazement as to why
publishers continue to dish out novels both so pointless and
horrendously written that it leaves worthy, unpublished
novelists by the wayside. It is without a doubt that there are
a multitude of unpublished straight and gay African
American male writers who will never get a chance to display
their talents for books like this. What is of further
amazement (and embarrassment by turn) is that this novel
is by writer Stanley Bennett Clay, author, director and
co-producer of Ritual, which earned him three NAACP
Theater Awards. More
Burn, Baby, Burn
Chicago Noir
Neal Pollack, editor
Neal Pollack, editor
This much is clear: Akashic Books is on a roll. With the
publishing of their fourth anthology of Noir tales, the
publishing house is quickly securing their reputation as
having a good eye for both desired topics and authors to
supply that demand. How else does one explain the
amazing stories collected in Chicago Noir, a book that is
less about Chicago as it is about writers who are in tune
with the art of true storytelling. More
publishing of their fourth anthology of Noir tales, the
publishing house is quickly securing their reputation as
having a good eye for both desired topics and authors to
supply that demand. How else does one explain the
amazing stories collected in Chicago Noir, a book that is
less about Chicago as it is about writers who are in tune
with the art of true storytelling. More
| Past P&A Reviews |
| I am This One Walking Beside Me Daniel Gebhardt (A+) |
| Chicago Noir Neal Pollack, editor (A-) |
Walk This Way
| Between the Palms Michael Luongo (A-) |
I Am This One Walking Beside Me
Daniel Gebhardt
Daniel Gebhardt
Daniel Gebhardt’s amazing little book I Am This One
Walking Beside Me isn’t really little at all but is instead huge
in the way all books should be huge, and that is to say that it
is full of heart.
Mr. Gebhardt is an HIV positive gay man who has created a
book full of meditations and prayers on how to live life
without the negative restrictions imposed on one’s self that
can come with that disease. However, what he has
unwittingly done is created a text just as applicable to
anyone, with or without disease, that liberates both the mind
and soul and states in a little under a hundred and thirty
pages that we are all human but despite our humanness are
never truly helpless. More
Walking Beside Me isn’t really little at all but is instead huge
in the way all books should be huge, and that is to say that it
is full of heart.
Mr. Gebhardt is an HIV positive gay man who has created a
book full of meditations and prayers on how to live life
without the negative restrictions imposed on one’s self that
can come with that disease. However, what he has
unwittingly done is created a text just as applicable to
anyone, with or without disease, that liberates both the mind
and soul and states in a little under a hundred and thirty
pages that we are all human but despite our humanness are
never truly helpless. More
| Drama City George Pelacanos (B+) |
| Passion Marks Lee Hayes (D) |
| love conjure/blues Sharon Bridgforth (A+) |
| The Moments, the Minutes, the Hours: The Poetry of Jill Scott Jill Scott (C-) |
| You're Hired: How to Succeed in Life and Business Bill Rancic (B) |
All About Eve
The Washingtonienne
by Jessica Cutler
by Jessica Cutler
| Orphea Proud Sharon Dennis Wyeth (D) |
There was once a woman who drank, smoked, used vulgar
language, and used men to get what she wanted—or
thought she wanted—out of life. This was back in the 1980s
and that woman of fiction was called Alexis Carrington Colby
of the hit television show Dynasty. In the 90s, this archetypal
construction was followed by another less powerful but of the
same vein type of creature called Amanda on the dubious hit
television series Melrose Place. She too used men to get
what she wanted and like her predecessor possessed a
headstrong determination to live life by her rules, to live
pleasurably in the moment, and to bounce back with almost
as much cunning, skill and gusto as Elizabeth Taylor’s sexy,
shrewd turn as Maggie the Cat from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
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language, and used men to get what she wanted—or
thought she wanted—out of life. This was back in the 1980s
and that woman of fiction was called Alexis Carrington Colby
of the hit television show Dynasty. In the 90s, this archetypal
construction was followed by another less powerful but of the
same vein type of creature called Amanda on the dubious hit
television series Melrose Place. She too used men to get
what she wanted and like her predecessor possessed a
headstrong determination to live life by her rules, to live
pleasurably in the moment, and to bounce back with almost
as much cunning, skill and gusto as Elizabeth Taylor’s sexy,
shrewd turn as Maggie the Cat from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
More
| Someone You Know Gary Zebrun (A-) |
| Where the Apple Falls Samiya Bashir (B-) |
| The Colorado Kid Stephen King (B+) |
| San Francisco Noir Peter Maravelis, editor (B) |
| Order of the Poison Oak Brent Hartinger (A-) |
| When I Knew Robert Trachtenberg, editor (A+) |
| You Can Say You Knew Me When K.M. Soehnlein (B) |
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