Nathaniel Patterson: 5 books

When Kenneth Whitley wakes up in San Francisco after his flight from Japan, he discovers quickly that the world he left is not the same as the one in which he has arrived.

A young debutante is discovered strung out and sick on the streets of Pyongyang. Her father and her doctor race to discover the cause of her disappearance and addiction.

Above a world changed by climactic events, the crew of the airship Tenryu embark on another mission, this time with a new crewmember. Fly above the decimated farmlands of the Middle West, as this small pocket of humanity strives to carve out an existence from the ruins of a failed society.

What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America is the second book in a landmark two-volume anthology that explodes narrow definitions of African American poetry by examining experimental poems often excluded from previous scholarship. The first volume, Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone, covers...

Excerpt: "Mankind has always loved to tell stories and to listen to them. The most primitive and unlettered peoples and tribes have always shown and still show this universal characteristic. As far back as written records go we find stories; even before that time, they were handed down from remote...