By Mike Enemigo These former incarcerated authors turned their sentences into real-life experiences for millions of readers… Dominating the Essence and New York Times bestsellers lists, respectively, street literature, officially recognized as urban fiction, has evolved into a permanent part of American literature. Telling the often tragic stories of African-American men trapped in the gritty […]
Iceberg Slim is credited with creating the street-lit genre with his 1967 autobiography Pimp: The Story of My Life, and though he sold over 6 million books before his death in 1992, it was Donald Goines who really ran with the genre. Goines, after learning about Iceberg Slim’s book Pimp while serving time in prison, […]
Seth Ferranti rocked the literary world in 2004 when he launched his publishing company, Gorilla Convict Publications, from inside a federal penitentiary, and began penning and publishing raw, uncensored tales about life inside America’s prison system, street legends, and other aspects of the criminal underworld. Not since Jack Abbott’s In the Belly of the Beast, George […]
“If a person has done even a couple of years in prison and possess even the most basic means to obtain literature,…
The following week after Kano’s big birthday bash, Kano was approached by one of his foot soldiers, named Sticks.
My name is Wilberto “Guru” Belardo. I am a 41-year-old father of 5. I am also an incarcerated author who is…
The following day, Nino had a Chevy Impala, Crown Victoria, and Lexus RX450 SUV delivered to him at his home…
Yada was sitting low in the driver’s seat of his car. It was parked next to a trash bin in the back of the parking lot, across from…