From the hip hop icon, Hollywood star, and "a true artist and writer of deep talent" (James McBride, author of The Color of Water)--a candid, New York Times bestselling memoir ranging from his childhood on Chicago's South side and his emergence as one of rap's biggest names.

Common has earned a reputation in the hip-hop world as a conscious artist by embracing themes of love and struggle in his songs. His journey toward understanding is rooted in his relationship with a remarkable woman, his mother.

Common holds nothing back in this gripping memoir, both...

For the first time collected together, the best weird fiction from Morpheus Tales, the UK's most controversial weird fiction magazine Only the very best weird fiction has been hand-picked from the Morpheus Tales archives to create the fourth collected volume of the magazine Christopher Fowler calls "edgy and dark." Featuring fiction by Gary Budgen, Alex Davis, James Everington, R. K. Gemienhardt, Dean M. Drinkel, Michael W. Garza, John S. Barker, Brick Marlin, Kurt Fawver, John F. D. Taff, Charles A. Muir, Martin Slag, Lenora Farrington-Sarrouf, Deborah Walker, Cate Caldwell, Richard Smith,...

Collected together for the first time, the best weird fiction from Morpheus Tales, the UK's most controversial weird fiction magazine Only the very best weird fiction has been hand-picked from the Morpheus Tales archives to create the fifth collected volume of the magazine Christopher Fowler calls "edgy and dark." Featuring fiction by David Lear, Brockton McKinney, Lee Clark Zumpe, Robert Sagirs, Sean Logan, Adrian Ludens, Candra Hope, Ed Plotts, Glen Garrick, Matthew Piskun, Deborah Walker, Paul Johnson-Jovanovic & James Brooks Anthony Baynton, Sharon Baillie, Matt Leyshon, Matthew Acheson,...

If asked to list the greatest innovators of modern American poetry, few of us would think to include Jay-Z or Eminem in their number. And yet hip hop is the source of some of the most exciting developments in verse today. The media uproar in response to its controversial lyrical content has obscured hip hop's revolution of poetic craft and experience: Only in rap music can the beat of a song render poetic meter audible, allowing an MC's wordplay to move a club-full of eager listeners.

Examining rap history's most memorable lyricists and their inimitable techniques, literary scholar Adam...

Collected together for the first time, the best weird fiction from Morpheus Tales, the UK's most controversial weird fiction magazine Only the very best weird fiction has been hand-picked from the Morpheus Tales archives to create the sixth collected volume of the magazine Christopher Fowler calls "edgy and dark." Featuring fiction by Richard Wolkomir, Stuart Hughes, Ty Schwamberger, Paul Johnson-Jovanovic, Matthew Acheson, K. Scott Forman, Charles D. Romans, Craig Saunders, Matt Leyshon, Michael Lejeune, Michelle Ann King, Bruce L. Priddy, Douglas J. Ogurek, Harley Carnell, Stephen...