And then there are the “rebirths” Benjamin described: the second acts, rediscoveries, and renewals that bring older works back into circulation. Happily, unfairly forgotten treasures are in vogue.

Davis' latest book "Love, Rita: An American Story of Sisterhood ... Davis writes about her older sister Rita's path from ...

Producers of a documentary on the life of the prisoner-turned urban fiction writer of novels about the violence, drugs and prostitution that he surrounded himself with in Detroit are hoping the answer ...

His raw, stark and undiluted writings are filled with the urban street life imagery of the late 1960s and early 1970s ... especially in Detroit where Goines' books often held prominence ...