Product Description: Nothing Doing is a collection of short stories. An ode to misspent childhood, lost innocence and creeping depravity, blowing apart the American ideal of life spent in pursuit of wholesome activity. Written over a period of thirty years, these stories anatomize America's most vivid perversions and outsider fantasies with unmatched precision and wit, signalling underground legend Willie Smith's perfectly executed return to the literary world...read more

Product Description: As we have read or been told about the history and the art of history, there was trepidation drilled daily into human beings, others orally and physically: Masters/others calling them names, "You slave, you nigger," except human beings with human feelings and bleeding flesh...read more

Product Description: The Lion is best-known as a mentor and influence on the young Duke Ellington. Although he is thought of as a stride player, his music offers far more than the stride style.

Product Description: Oedipus Cadet is a very funny book. It is a satire of the middle-American ideal of security and stability. In the 1950's everything appears stable. But beneath appearances something sinister lurks. It arises from the depths, flirting with, even wholly engaging, pure evil...read more