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Alan Black at Litquake 2007


10:41 minutes (6.12 MB)

Hear Alan Black read at Litquake, San Francisco's annual literary festival.

The German Helmet Haircut


7:10 minutes (6.35 MB)

An excerpt from Kick the Balls - An Offensive Suburban Odyssey by Alan Black (Hudson Street Press/Penguin 2008)

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San Diego


7:10 minutes (5.31 MB)

Feed it, feed it...

The Bampots


5:40 minutes (4.89 MB)

A Portrait of the Deranged

TROUBLE IN NURSERY RHYMELAND


6:30 minutes (5.11 MB)

When nursery rhymes go wrong

Amira Nagati

Amira Nagati says:

That was the wildest thing

That was the wildest thing I've ever heard! The strongest society-criticizing hallucination :D And, strangely -due to the delicacy of the tool here-, it is not offending... Again, I am a fan!

Alan Black Reads from Huntress: Year One


2:45 minutes (2.52 MB)

Red Room author Alan Black brings a haunting voice to passages of Ivory Madison's noir-feminist-superhero graphic novel.

Vicki Nikolaidis

Vicki Nikolaidis says:

OK! Now we're talkin!

Chilling and the best part - really really angry! I like the background chanting, too. I must share this with my non-princess feminist super hero friends immediately!

*    Aberjhani

* Aberjhani says:

Extraordinary dramatization

Extraordinary dramatization of some powerful words: "I will do His work even if it lands me in hell."

Great stuff indeed.

Aberjhani
author of The American Poet Who Went Home Again
and Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance (Facts on File)