Fiction
Melvin Tolson wanted nothing but a master's degree when he got to Harlem. It turned out that the Harlem Renaissance was nothing more than a mask. Against his will he was drawn into events that promised to determine the course of world history. What choice did he have but to do the will of the Inner Circle?
The plan was to entirely flip American higher education so that the HBCU’s were on top.
And the Ivies, the Big Ten, and the liberal arts colleges were all on the outside looking in. If they wanted to have any traction in the future, they’d have to come begging.
Gon’ Knock John Booker to the Low Ground is a novel of ideas about the reform of higher education set in the late 1960s.
This unsparing satire addresses a variety of controversies through page-turning comedy.
Sharp satire and a laugh on every page in the tradition of Evelyn Waugh, George Schuyler, and Percival Everett
It is 1932 and America is circling the drain. An army of desperate veterans has surrounded the Capitol, strikes dot the map, and breadlines are a common sight. To lighten the national mood the 10th Olympic Summer Games beckon from sunny, dazzling, otherworldly Los Angeles. Four young black sophisticates from Washington, D.C. decide to make the road trip despite the violent racial climate. A vivid assortment of characters, a beautiful racketeer, a moral philosopher, a ruthless mastermind, an ambitious religious leader, and a government agent cross paths with the little band of reckless adventurers as they try to reconcile their personal ambitions with the hypocrisy and failure of modern life. Summer Games is a darkly comic novel of suspense, literary ambition, geopolitical intrigue, and self-realization.
“Mammy~Diva Theory” is the peculiar career path to money and success for an ambitious English professor at one of the nation’s most prestigious HBCUs (historically Black colleges and universities). But first the professor has to raise millions of dollars for an endowed chair in a department that has been sidelined in the competition for student happiness.
Endowed, a comic novel is a cultural piñata of thought experiments, government agencies, urban novels, quantum information, folklore, and celebrities that explodes the falsehoods of Black higher education. Assisted by a globe hopping erotomaniac narratologist, a calculating Chinese beauty, and a gossiping sibyl, Dr. Radley Transuranium cunningly probes the Black community for a willing sugar daddy. Dangerously funny, self-mocking, intellectually daring, and always on the verge of savagery, Endowed explores places in America that previously have been invisible for good reasons.