Anthologies & short stories
Black Sci-Fi Short Stories
"With topics ranging from slavery to space travel, the impressive breadth of this anthology makes for a well-rounded survey. Readers, writers, and scholars alike will find great value here." — Publishers Weekly Starred ReviewA deluxe edition of new writing and neglected...
$30.00
Invisible Men: The Trailblazing Black Artists of Comic Books
Publisher: Yoe Books Hear the riveting stories of Black artists who drew--mostly covertly behind the scenes--superhero, horror, and romance comics in the early years of the industry.The life stories of each man's personal struggles and triumphs are represented as they...
$34.99
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (Loa #333): A Library of America Anthology
Publisher: Library of America A literary landmark: the biggest, most ambitious anthology of Black poetry ever published, gathering 250 poets from the colonial period to the presentAcross a turbulent history, from such vital centers as Harlem, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Los...
$45.00
Your Black Friend and Other Strangers
Supplier: Silver Sprocket Your Black Friend and Other Strangers is a collection of culturally charged comics by cartoonist Ben Passmore, including the Eisner Award nominated and Ignatz Award-winning "Your Black Friend," named one of NPR's 100 favorite comics of all...
$20.00
On a Roll!: A Jumpstart Treasury
Supplier: Andrews McMeel Publishing “Thirty years after Armstrong’s comics brought diversity to the funny pages of America’s major newspapers, this humor strip retrospective perfectly packages the uncommon vision and exuberant creativity of its skilled creator.” – Publisher’s Weekly With over 500 comics,...
$19.99
Maroon Comix: Origins and Destinies
Supplier: PM Press Escaping slavery in the Americas, maroons made miracles in the mountains, summoned new societies in the swamps, and forged new freedoms in the forests. They didn’t just escape and steal from plantations—they also planted and harvested polycultures....
$15.95
Blackwax Boulevard: Five Years, What A Surprise (2012-2017)
Supplier: Frotoon Press Blackwax Boulevard is the weirdest, grimiest, most obscure record store in all comics. Thus, by hipster-definition, also the coolest! This anthology collects the first five years of the Glyph-nominated webcomic that follows nerds, metalheads, manic pixies, bohos,...
$30.00
365 Bedtime Stories and Rhymes
Publisher: Cottage Door Press Snuggle up with your favorite nursery rhymes and drift into the magical worlds of all your most treasured fairy-tale characters. This beautiful story-time treasury brings together the talents of illustrators from around the world, with well-loved stories and...
$12.99
Dirty Old Men (and Other Stories) Anthology
The New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Pecking Order offers a daring collection of erotic tales about the undeniable attraction older men have for younger women. Omar Tyree is known by his fans for pulling the sheets all the way off...
$28.99
The Collected Stories of Chester Himes (Us)
Spanning 40 years and including Himes's first work, written during his imprisonment in the 1940s, this collection uncovers the internal struggles of black individuals caught between resignation and rage, probing the heart of the African-American experience with wit, indignation, and...
$19.99
Always Unique: The Unique Stories
I: With only two hundred dollars, Unique packed her suitcase and headed to New York City for a brand new start. It's there that Unique meets big time boxing promoter, Kennard, and it is love at first sight. After nine...
$22.99
You Made Me Love You: Selected Stories, 1981-2018
A powerful and “stunning” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) selection of the best of John Edgar Wideman’s short stories over his fifty-year career, representing the wide range of his intellectual and artistic pursuits.When John Edgar Wideman won the PEN Malamud Award...
$30.00
The Ones Who Don't Say They Love You: Stories
A collection of raucous stories that offer a panoramic view of New Orleans from the author of the “stunning and audacious” (NPR) debut novel We Cast a ShadowMaurice Carlos Ruffin has an uncanny ability to reveal the hidden corners of a...
$26.00
The Man Who Lived Underground: A Novel
**NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER**A major literary event: an explosive, previously unpublished novel about race and police violence by the legendary author of Native Son and Black BoyFred Daniels, a Black man, is picked up by the police after a brutal double murder and...
$22.95
Pleasantview
"In one of Chekhov's stories, a character says that every happy man should have someone who taps at his door with a little hammer, reminding him that there are unhappy people in the world. Reading Celeste Mohammed's novel-in-stories makes me...
$16.95
Love in Color: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold
“Perfection in short story form, I am in love with every single word Bolu Babalola has written. So rarely is love expressed this richly, this vividly, or this artfully.” —Candice Carty-Williams, international bestselling author of Queenie A vibrant collection of love...
$25.99
Kiss the Scars on the Back of My Neck: Stories
The eclectic stories in this collection are bound by the threads of desire in its many forms, above all, the desire for love and a place of safety in a world where being Black and gay can thwart the fulfillment...
$16.95
How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories
"How to Wrestle a Girl is a work of stunning grace and rhythm. In these stories Venita Blackburn reminds us she is a writer unlike any other, her stories propelled by voice and wit and harsh beauty." --Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author...
$16.00
How to Dispatch a Human: Stories and Suggestions
“Stephanie Andrea Allen’s story collection embraces the acerbic complexity of Joanna Russ, the practical science of James Tiptree Jr., the moral center of Rod Serling along with the finger-popping, sister sense of your local black beauty shop. Not a combo...
$16.95
Give My Love to the Savages: Stories
A provocative and raw debut collection of short fiction reminiscent of Junot Diaz’s Drown.A Black man’s life, told in scenes—through every time he’s been called nigger. A Black son who visits his estranged white father in Los Angeles just as the...
$25.99