My second book, Bad Men: Creative Touchstones of Black Writers, is published by the University of Virginia Press. It's been a long journey to this point, so I'm excited for the book to finally appear. In many respects, Bad Men is a book about creativity, specifically how large numbers of black writers are inspired by bad men and vulnerable black boys.
[Related: Book trailer]
For information about aspects of the book, see links to the following entries:
2023
• 28 Days & Ways of Thinking about Bad Men & Vulnerable Black Boys
2020
Entries
Contents of the book
• Bad Men as creative touchstones for outstanding compositions
• Preface -- Bad Men: Creative Touchstones of Black Writers
• Bad Men: Book summary
• Bad Men & Creativity
• Writing about a poetic trilogy of bad men
Writing the book
• Bad Men: Creative Touchstones of Black Writers
• From the Black Arts Enterprise to Bad Men
• Some guidance from Mark Anthony Neal's Illegible Black Masculinities
• Cornelius Eady, Tyehimba Jess, Bad Men, and the Slow Hunch
Presentation of the book
• Those Bad Men postcards
• The Mark Anthony Neal Blurb
• The Candice Jenkins Blurb
Keywords
• Concentrated Cultural Catalogs
Connections to other works
• Stagger Lee, Murder Ballads, Laura Morris, and me
2020
Entries
Contents of the book
• Bad Men as creative touchstones for outstanding compositions
• Preface -- Bad Men: Creative Touchstones of Black Writers
• Bad Men: Book summary
• Bad Men & Creativity
• Writing about a poetic trilogy of bad men
Writing the book
• Bad Men: Creative Touchstones of Black Writers
• From the Black Arts Enterprise to Bad Men
• Some guidance from Mark Anthony Neal's Illegible Black Masculinities
• Cornelius Eady, Tyehimba Jess, Bad Men, and the Slow Hunch
Presentation of the book
• Those Bad Men postcards
• The Mark Anthony Neal Blurb
• The Candice Jenkins Blurb
Keywords
• Concentrated Cultural Catalogs
Connections to other works
• Stagger Lee, Murder Ballads, Laura Morris, and me
1 comment:
Congratulations Howard! I can't wait to read this. You have always been such an inspiration to me and I have been awaiting your book since the day I met you in 1998 on the greens of Tougaloo. No one that insightful and wise beyond their years doesn't write a book! I am thinking of you in these times of unrest and uprising and all that I learned from you about your lived experience and that of the American Descendants of Slavery in the south. I'm old now, and the years have not been easy on me, but I'm still going to a protest this evening in solidarity with the black community that once took me in, welcomed me, and taught me a history that few people get to learn. There are some student debts, that you cannot repay in money. I know you know that. Congrats again and peace and stay safe brother.
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