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Chris Hayden

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Posted on Friday, November 29, 2002 - 12:12 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Just got done reading a book of short stories by Japanes writer Haruki Murakami (AFTER THE QUAKE). These are translations but, in view of the many translations of his work available I have to think this guy is getting a push from the Lit establishment (I enjoyed the stories, by the way).

What LIVING African American writers are doing quality literaryl short stories? John Edgar Wideman comes immediately to mind
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Bayou Lights

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Posted on Saturday, November 30, 2002 - 02:40 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Dana Johnson's "Break Any Woman Down" was a good collection I read recently.

"Interesting Women" by Andrea Lee was another.

Bayou Lights
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Thumper

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Posted on Saturday, November 30, 2002 - 03:58 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Hello Chris,

There are loads of short story collections by living AA authors. Anika Nialah with Free, Reginald McKnight, Victor LaVelle's Slapboxing With Jesus, J. California Cooper, Christine Lincoln to name but a few.
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nksevans

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Posted on Wednesday, December 04, 2002 - 03:12 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

percival everrett has a couple of short story collections; charles johnson's THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE is still around; THE BEACH UMBRELLA by the late CYRUS COLTER has just been re released. a collection of short fiction by LEON FORREST was released last year [i know you said living writers but colter & forrest passed away within the last few years & were not as well known or widely read]. john holman is another guy writing short stories & there are short story collections by william melvin kelly,clarence major, ernest gaines, walter mosley, colleen j. mcelroy, paule marshall, austin clarke & others.



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Thumper

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Posted on Wednesday, December 04, 2002 - 03:16 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Hello NKEvans,

Thanks for coming by the site, and dropping some knowledge. Half of the authors you named, I hadn't heard of before. I'm taking notes. Thanks. If you have anymore suggestions, suggest on. *smile*
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Mike Evans[ME]

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Posted on Thursday, December 05, 2002 - 08:45 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

I forgot to mention Alice Walker's two short story collections In Love & Trouble [very good]and You Can't Keep A Good Woman Down [so-so].
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akaivyleaf

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Posted on Thursday, December 12, 2002 - 10:10 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

I thoroughly enjoyed Toure, The Portable Promised Land and I'm not much of a short story fan.
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yukio

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Posted on Monday, December 30, 2002 - 01:23 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Let the Dead Bury Their Dead by Randall Kenan is a good book of short stories.
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Patti Flinn

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Posted on Monday, December 30, 2002 - 03:07 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Just finished Blackberries, Blackberries by Crystal Wilkinson, a fellow midwesterner. Wonderful book of short stories.
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yukio

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Posted on Tuesday, December 31, 2002 - 11:32 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Edwidge Danticat's Krik? Krak? Junot Diaz' Drown..Haitian sister and Dominican brother. Gayl Jones' White Rat... different, but excellent! She may have psychological problems, but she is brilliant! John Edgar Wideman's Fever and All Stories Are True
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ME

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Posted on Monday, January 06, 2003 - 12:04 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Back when he was LeRoi Jones, Amiri Baraka published a book of short stories entitled TALES. Pretty good too. I believe all of his fiction has recently been collected & republished.
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Thumper

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Posted on Wednesday, January 08, 2003 - 05:19 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Hello All,

I have been taking notes! While I was talking of J. California Cooper, I should mentioned that she has a number of short story collections that are all off the hook, my favorite being Some Love, Some pain, sometime.
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Tee C. Royal

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Posted on Wednesday, January 08, 2003 - 10:37 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Walter Mosley just released Six Easy Pieces, though I don't know if it's literary or not since I haven't read it.

-Tee
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Thumper

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Posted on Wednesday, January 08, 2003 - 11:37 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Hello Tee,

Yes, he did. From my understanding all of his Easy Rawlins novels has been published under a new banner, in paperback. In the new paperback edition of the novels is an original short story, previously unpublished. I could be worng, but I believe that the Six Easy Pieces collection is a collection of all 6 new short stories, so that for folks, like me, who already own all of the previous novels, can just purchase the short story collection. I think its a wonderful idea and I thank Mosley for keeping the new material coming.
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Tee C. Royal

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Posted on Wednesday, January 08, 2003 - 11:52 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Hey Thump, I'm reading the back of the ARC now and you're correct, except it has one new one called Amber Gate, for a total of seven. I have all of his books as well but will still probably pick up this one.

-Tee

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