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"A decidedly skewed, hilarious collection of life reflections and colorful storytelling." — Kirkus ReviewsAn endlessly entertaining collection of wayward autobiographical tales about a search for a richer life thwarted at every turn by beagles, bureaucrats, and ill-advised love affairsThe unlikely s... Read More about I'd Rather Not: Essays

A contemporary of Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and Ralph Ellison, Chester Himes wrote with perhaps more angry fire than his celebrated colleagues about black protagonists doomed by white racisim and self-hate. Among his writings is a series of hard-boiled detective novels featuring black detective... Read More about Chester Himes: An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography (Bibliographies and Indexes in Afro-American and African Stud #30)

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not... Read More about Abyssinia of To-Day: An Account of the First Mission Sent by the American Government to the Court O

New Orleans, May 1944: A low-level bank employee tries to horn in on an impending bank robbery and is murdered by a shadowy fellow employee who attempts to make it appear a suicide. New Orleans cop Des Cortes and his girlfriend, local reporter Jessica Richards, quickly recognize the death as a murde... Read More about Spanish Luck

Among the many writers who lent their talents to the creation of hard-boiled detective fiction, few have approached it from a more original perspective than Chester Himes. A former criminal himself, Himes brought to the writing of detective fiction the perspective of the black man. Himes made his de... Read More about Two Guns From Harlem: The Detective Fiction of Chester Himes

The late African American novelist Chester Himes (1909-1984) is well known both in America and Europe for his moving depictions of black men destroyed by a pervasive racism and for darkly humorous stories of Harlem's underworld. His novels and stories are all the more striking because they are infus... Read More about Conversations with Chester Himes (Literary Conversations)