Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings by Randall Kenan DelMonico Books From a rising literary star

From a rising literary star and the author of how to be a good girl comes a brilliant

Does it mean dressing up in whatever The Label tells him to wear for photo shoots and pretending never to have sex

her family gather round her and beneath this drama another

Amber tries for some semblance of unity

Larissa Pham unearths the ache beneath all her wants: time

Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings by Randall Kenan DelMonico Books From a rising literary starVirtuosic in his use of literary forms, nurtured and unbounded by his identities as a Black man, a gay man, an intellectual, and a Southerner, Randall Kenan was known for his groundbreaking fiction. Less visible were his extraordinary nonfiction essays, published as introductions to anthologies and in small journals, revealing countless facets of Kenan's life and work. Flying under the radar, these writings were his most personal and autobiographical: