From the Book - First Scribner hardcover edition.
Introduction / by Walton Muyumba --
Damballah (1981). To Robby ; Damballah: good serpent of the sky ; Begat chart ; Damballah ; Daddy garbage ; Lizabeth ; Across the wide Missouri ; Tommy ; Solitary --
Fever (1989). Doc's story ; Surfiction ; Fever --
All stories are true (1992). All stories are true ; Backseat ; What he saw ; Newborn thrown in trash and dies ; Welcome --
God's Gym (2005). Weight ; The silence of Thelonious Monk ; Are dreams faster than the speed of light ; Who invented the jump shot ; What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence --
Briefs (2010). Witness ; To Barry Bonds: home run king ; War stories ; Close ; Party ; Automatic ; Writing ; Breath ; Message ; Manhole ; Martyr ; Ruins ; Cleaning up ; You are my sunshine ; New work ; Short story ; Swimming ; Answering service ; Ghetto ; Review ; Fall ; Now you see it ; First love suite ; Ralph Waldo Ellison ; Genocide ; Passing on ; Haiku ; Wolf whistle ; Shadow --
American histories (2018). JB & FD ; My dead ; Maps and ledgers ; Williamsburg Bridge ; Nat Turner confesses ; Collage..
