African-american fiction (several uncorrelated thoughts)

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

hey, there's some beautiful stuff being written too...not necessarily
by the same authors...

"Pushkin and the Queen of Spades" by Alice Randall is quite good...

At some point Afro-American became African-American (I think
the resonance with "Franco-American" helped squelch the former
among serious-thinking people)

Personally, I think that the unbridled id in this sort of
fiction corresponds to the white fantasies in Bond, and
perhaps even Billi Buckley's "Blackford Oakes" books,
since the ghetto community can't afford to send their thugs
overseas to play