Swing Low: Black Men Writing

by Rebecca Carroll

In a companion volume to I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like, Rebecca Carroll presents candid, powerful, sometimes humorous interviews with 17 of America's best black male novelists, poets, journalists, and playwrights. They talk about their individual experience as black men and as black writers in America. Each interview has been shaped into a single-voice narrative and is accompanied by a brief biography, a full-page photograph of the author, and an excerpt from his work.

266 pages, Hardcover

First published January 31, 1995

About the author

Rebecca Carroll is host of the podcast Come Through with Rebecca Carroll, and a cultural critic at WNYC where she also develops and produces a broad array of multi-platform content, and hosts live event series in The Greene Space. Rebecca is a former critic at large for the Los Angeles Times, and her personal essays, cultural commentary, profiles and opinion pieces have appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Guardian, Essence, New York magazine, Ebony, and Esquire, among other publications. She is the author of several interview-based books about race and blackness in America, including the award-winning Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and son.

Reviews

[Simone · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found the book very interesting to read as it gave an inside look in how many men learned they wanted to become writers in their college years.