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Equal parts stunning, photo-heavy look book and cultural commentary, Fly is the story of the undeniable intersection of high fashion and basketball. Organized by era, each section is broken down by the style of the time and the cultural influence surrounding it: beginning with the league's inception in 1949, pre-civil rights movement?when the NBA was mostly white players who wore suits and skinny ties. From the years following the Civil Rights...

Powerful . . . full of impossible hope . . . There is warmth and wit and a hard-won wisdom' Roxane Gay, New York Times Book Review

Creating your own poem is a wonderful experience. For those persons who love to write poems and read poems, an outlet for creative expression is the Poetry Slam experience. Meanwhile, experience this volume of poetry. This book of poems, hopefully, will spark joy, wonder, and reflection for you, the reader. Also, this book has pages with space available to jot down ideas or create your own poem. And, maybe, you too will put pen to paper.Mitche...

Alonzo And Melissa: Or The Unfeeling Father. An American Tale.This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same ed...

An acclaimed memoir from the winner of the Ernest Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence. This is the story of a young man growing up in a small black neighborhood in Oregon blighted by drugs, violence, poverty and governmental neglect.

A vibrant memoir of race, violence, family, and manhood…a virtuosic wail of a book" (The Boston Globe), Survival Math calculates how award-winning author Mitchell S. Jackson survived the Portland, Oregon, of his youth.This "spellbinding" (NPR) book explores gangs and guns, near-death experiences, sex work, masculinity, composite fathers, the concept of "hustle, " and the destructive power of addiction—all framed within the story of Mitchell Ja...

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Winner of the Whiting Writers' AwardWinner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary ExcellenceMitchell S. Jackson grew up black in a neglected neighbourhood in America's whitest city, Portland, Oregon. In the '90s, those streets and beyond had fallen under the shadow of crack cocaine and its familiar mayhem. In his commanding autobiographical novel, Jackson writes what it was like to come of age in that time and place, with a breakout voice ...

The eagerly awaited memoir from Mitchell S. Jackson, winner of the Ernest Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence and Finalist of PEN/Hemingway Award.

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ONE OF TIME'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 ONE OF BUZZFEED'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 An electrifying, dazzlingly written reckoning and an essential addition to the national conversation about race and class, Survival Math takes its name from the calculations award-winning author Mitchell S. Jackson made to survive the Portland, Oregon of his youth.This dynamic book explores gangs and guns, near-death experiences, sex w...

Winner Whiting Writers' AwardWinner Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary ExcellenceFinalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut FictionFinalist for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel PrizeFinalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy AwardMitchell S. Jackson grew up black in a neglected neighborhood in America's whitest city, Portland, Oregon. In the '90s, those streets and beyond had fallen under the shadow of crack cocaine and its familiar mayhem. In...

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Mitchell S. Jackson grew up black in a neglected neighborhood in America's whitest city, Portland, Oregon. In the '90s, those streets and beyond had fallen under the shadow of crack cocaine and its familiar mayhem. In his commanding autobiographical novel, Mitchell writes what it was to come of age in that time and place, with a break-out voice that's nothing less than extraordinary. The Residue Years switches between the perspectives of a you...

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Three administrations at the helm steered the American lives. Clinton saw the American individual needing two jobs, W. Bush refused to save one American home as he put more and more Americans into uniforms abroad, Obama opened the floodgates to illegal and undocumented immigrants. Consequently, of America's 120 million citizens, 90 million (ages sixteen and older) fell jobless. Ninety million were not in the labor force, as stated by the Burea...

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