Classic reprints from: Edward P. Jones, George Pelecanos, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, James Grady, Julian Mayfield, Marita Golden, Elizabeth Hand, Julian Mazor, Ward Just, Jean Toomer, Roach Brown, Larry Neal, and others.
George Pelecanosis an independent film producer, the recipient of numerous international writing awards, a producer and an Emmy-nominated writer of the HBO seriesThe Wire, and the author of fifteen novels set in and around Washington, DC. He is the editor of the best-selling first volume ofD.C. Noir.