{"product_id":"9780688168766","title":"Giant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers","description":"\u003cp\u003eStanding at the crossroads of American literature and the current African American renaissance, \u003ci\u003eGiant Steps\u003c\/i\u003e presents a vibrant and wonderfully diverse collection of young black writing. Through generous selections of award-winning poetry, fiction, and nonfiction by writers born after 1960, this groundbreaking anthology welcomes readers into the future of African American writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking its spirit and title from the John Coltrane composition released in 1960, \u003ci\u003eGiant Steps\u003c\/i\u003e offers an extraordinary window into post-civil rights literature. From Edwidge Danticat and Colson Whitehead to Rebecca Walker and Hilton Als, these authors are not \"emerging\" but have already arrived. They are National Book Award finalists and winners of the National Poetry Series and the Pushcart Prize. They have been featured in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, Time,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e as our brightest stars; they have been heard through National Public Radio, Rhino Records, and Oprah's Book Club. Previously unpublished works by Danzy Senna, Philippe Wamba, and Elizabeth Alexander run alongside contemporary classics. They are popular and prophetic, literary and experimental. Together with a useful bibliography of current writing and a discography of influential music from soul to jazz to hip-hop, \u003ci\u003eGiant Steps\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates the complexities of race while paying tribute to the personal and collective histories that are forging this new generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe writers found in \u003ci\u003eGiant Steps\u003c\/i\u003e are not \"emerging\" but have already arrived. From \u003ci\u003eBest American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e and O. Henry Award winners to National Book Award finalists and Oprah's Book Club members, the thirty-five authors selected here are some of the best and the brightest writing today. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book features the full diversity of the African American experience, discussing everything from slavery to sexuality, growing up poor, gay, biracial, or all three. There are stories about the American Revolution, slave insurrections, and the year 1979; there are poems about loss and Sam Cooke; essays about sharecropping and the New South. New and unpublished writing by Danzy Senna, Colson Whitehead, and Darieck Scott is collected alongside work by such favorites as Edwidge Danticat, Kevin Powell, Hilton Als, and Randall Keenan. The writers in \u003ci\u003eGiant Steps\u003c\/i\u003e are at the heart of what's happening in contemporary culture, and this anthology welcomes readers to the future and powerful present of African American writing.The writers found in \u003ci\u003eGiant Steps\u003c\/i\u003e are not \"emerging\" but have already arrived. From \u003ci\u003eBest American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e and O. Henry Award winners to National Book Award finalists and Oprah's Book Club members, the thirty-five authors selected here are some of the best and the brightest writing today. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book features the full diversity of the African American experience, discussing everything from slavery to sexuality, growing up poor, gay, biracial, or all three. There are stories about the American Revolution, slave insurrections, and the year 1979; there are poems about loss and Sam Cooke; essays about sharecropping and the New South. New and unpublished writing by Danzy Senna, Colson Whitehead, and Darieck Scott is collected alongside work by such favorites as Edwidge Danticat, Kevin Powell, Hilton Als, and Randall Keenan. The writers in \u003ci\u003eGiant Steps\u003c\/i\u003e are at the heart of what's happening in contemporary culture, and this anthology welcomes readers to the future and powerful present of African American writing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47014452723952,"sku":"9780688168766","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780688168766_p0.jpg?v=1763609520","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780688168766","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}