Freedom in This Village: Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men's Writing, 1979 to the Present Science Fiction Nothing in Kane's life is

Nothing in Kane's life is an accident

Alternately unsettling and affirming

sets out to uncover what makes a man--and what being a "good" man even means--through his experience training for and fighting in a charity boxing match at Madison Square Garden

is precisely what we need right now

then by her first love eight years later

Freedom in This Village: Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men's Writing, 1979 to the Present Science Fiction Nothing in Kane's life isFreedom in This Village charts for the first time ever the innovative course of black gay male literature of the past 25 years. Starting in 1979 with the publication of James Baldwin's final novel, Just Above My Head, then on to the radical writings of the 1980s, the breakthrough successes of the 1990s, and up to today's new works, editor E. Lynn Harris collects 47 sensational stories, poems, novel excerpts, and essays. Authors featured include Samuel