Bücher von Gary Phillips

Mit ONESHOT HARRY begibt sich Garry Phillips auf eine Zeitreise ins Frühjahr 1963, in die letzten Tagen des Goldenen Zeitalters von LA und Hollywood. Doch Rassismus und der Kampf um Bürgerrechte prägen die Schattenseiten der Stadt. Koreakriegsveteran Harry Ingram verdient seinen Lebensunterhalt als Nachrichtenfotograf und Prozessbevollmächtigter. Seine Figur ist Harry Adams nachempfunden, einem damals bekannten schwarzen Fotografen, der den Spitznamen One-Shot Harry" trug. Da die rassistischen Spannungen am Vorabend der Freedom Rally und der Rede von Martin Luther King zunehmen, läuft er Gefahr, an jedem Tatort, den er fotogra ert, zum Opfer zu werden. Als er über Polizeifunk von einem tödlichen Autounfall erfährt, erkennt er, dass das beschriebene Fahrzeug einem alten Armeekameraden gehört, einem White-Jazz-Trompeter, dessen Mercury in eine Leitplanke am Mulholland Drive gekracht ist. Das LAPD erklärt den Zusammenstoß zum Unfall. Als Ingram seine Fotos entwickelt, bemerkt er jedoch Anzeichen eines Verbrechens. Er fühlt sich gezwungen, Detektiv zu spielen, auch wenn er dabei sein eigenes Leben aufs Spiel setzt. Schon bald sieht er sich angeheuerten Killern ausgesetzt, die für eine Gruppe weißer Rassisten arbeiten.

"Mr. Dynamite," "Soul Brother No. 1," "The Godfather of Soul," deadbeat dad, convicted spousal abuser... James Brown was all those things and so much more. Yet it can't be denied his music impacted a generation of fans and influenced a grip of musicians who came after him-from David Bowie, Janelle Monae to Usher just to name three. In the tradition then of other Down & Out Books music-themed anthologies such as Murder-A-Go-Go's: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of the Go-Go's and The Great Filling Station Holdup: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Jimmy Buffett, this all-original set of fourteen stories follows in that stead. The idea expressed to the writers was not literal interpretations of any given song by Mr. Brown. Rather to use that title or lyric and the ofttimes edginess behind such efforts as "King Heroin" and "The Payback," or the fun in "Make it Funky," as a prompt, a starting point for the story the contributor wanted to tell. Covers the Godfather of Soul did of others' songs could have also been tapped. While the majority of stories in the collection are prose, there is a comics style one and more than one of the text versions have an illustration or two to accompany the story. The collection includes stories by six-time Bram Stoker Award winner Lisa Morton; Anthony, Barry and Macavity Awards winner James Ziskin; Jim Fusilli, former Rock & Pop critic for the Wall Street Journal; and HBO Max Doom Patrol staff writer and comics creator Ezra Claytan Daniels. Other contributors include Shamus Award winner Gar Anthony Haywood; Mysti Berry, five-time Derringer and Golden Derringer Award winner John M. Floyd; Lise McClendon, writer of the Bennett Sisters mysteries; cultural critic and short story writer Michael Gonzales; novelist and former Miami Vice showrunner and writer-producer on Hill Street Blues Robert Ward; Fabrice Sapolsky, comics creator of FairSquare Comics' Intertwined and Marvel Comics' Spider-Man Noir; filmmaker and pioneer of Hip Hop horror Jeff Carroll; crime fiction novelist and Dark Yonder editor Katy Munger; and hardboiled novelist and co-producer on Snowfall, Gary Phillips.

Subjects Suitable for Poetry is the latest collection from former Carrboro, North Carolina, poet laureate Gary Phillips. In these 20 poems, Phillips explores family, nature, and his rural upbringing, interwoven and inseparable.

There’s a taco truck in Chicago known among a certain segment of the population for its daily specials. Late at night and during the wee hours of the morning, it isn’t the food selection that attracts customers, it’s the illegal weapons available with the special order.Each episode of Guns & Tacos features the story of one Chicagoland resident who visits the taco truck seeking a solution to life’s problems, a solution that always comes in a to-go bag.Episode 1: “Tacos de Cazuela con Smith & Wesson” by Gary Phillips.Episode 2: “Three Brisket Tacos and a Sig Sauer” by Michael Bracken.Episode 3: “A Gyro and a Glock” by Frank Zafiro.Episodes 4-6 of Season One are featured in Guns + Tacos Vol. 2.

Praise for The Self-Correcting Organization"A must-read for every manager! Gary's best work to date." Doug Moynihan - Hospital CEO"With wisdom and good humor drawn from a life well lived, Gary Phillips has written an important and timely book, full of insights to help our organizations self-correct." Kevin Page - President of the Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy University of Ottawa Former Parliamentary Budget Officer of Canada"The Self-Correcting Organization is clearly written, easy to follow, logical, thought provoking and psychologically sound. It does a good job of capturing a mature consultant's life's thinking." Richard Schwindt - author of Emotional Recovery from Workplace MobbingThe "how-to manual" for resilient performance and Self-Correcting systems. - Optimize processes with minimal effort. - Improve culture without mentioning culture. - Diagnose performance issues in 6 questions.Packed with fresh ideas, practical tools and reliable techniques! Warning! Contains innovative ideas and unconventional wisdom. Readers suffering from hardening of the attitudes, advanced certainty, or "We've always done it this way." may experience - inspiration, "Whoa, that was obvious!", or "I think I can do this." May cause transient creativity. When in doubt consult others in your organization for feedback.

Malcolm Cavanaugh Bleekston, MC Bleak, McBleak, enjoys hobnobbing with the one percenters and stealing from them. In The Extractors, he puts his life on the line to take a greedy man's gain while wondering if his girlfriend sees through his façade. Ned "Noc" Brenner is a drifter with an unusual skill set-he's an extreme athlete good at whatever he does be it MMA fighting to riding a motorcycle off a mountaintop. After winning in an all-night poker game, this sets in motion a series of events in The Anti-Gravity Steal where Noc must use all his abilities to prevent wholesale destruction. Part Shaft and part Batman sans the cowl, Luke Warfield, a philanthropist with a black ops background, the Essex Man, goes on the trail in 10 Seconds to Death of the villain who killed his foster father and uncovers not only ghosts from his past, but must stop a deadly plan of mass slaughter in his own backyard. Bonus Essex Man short story, "Murder by Remote Control."

Twenty-one short stories written by Gary Phillips are included in TREACHEROUS: GRIFTERS, RUFFIANS AND KILLERS. Alan Cranis on bookgasm.com said, "Phillips obviously loves his anti-heroes, as the stories' major characters are all, as the subtitle promises, grifters, ruffians and killers. You may not be on their side, but you can't help but be fascinated by their escapades...Phillips unfaltering ear for contemporary urban dialogue and patois, relentless pacing that grabs you from the opening sentence-oh, and plenty of sex and violence, too." Publishers Weekly said of the trade paperback, "Most of the 20 highly entertaining selections in this new collection also spotlight the hip urban scene Phillips has made his own."

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