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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The Strange Museum: 50-Word Stories is a new collection of stories from Ran Walker, the 2019 winner of the Indie Author Project's National Indie Author of the Year Award. Each story contains exactly fifty words, save the title, and seeks to explore an entire narrative universe within its small space. The stories range from humorous to insightful to dark, and, yes, to strange!
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Marz Banx, the legendary MC, is lamenting what it means to be in the rap game at the age of forty. Feeling like the game has passed him by and becoming more focused on his daughter, Jazz, he decides to interview for a job as a college professor in Nashville to be closer to her. While Marz is planning his escape from New York, he also finds himself trying to help his daughter get through her Sweet Sixteen, while she deals with her own issues. This,...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
For the first time in the history of Daily, Mississippi, the election ballot is completely divided, with a black and white candidate running for each office. Even more, the newly districted senatorial seat is up for grabs. David McKlusky, a millionaire lawyer seeking to establish his own legacy outside the shadows of his wife's family, dives into the race, only to be consumed by personal issues that threaten to derail his candidacy. Chante House,...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Three boroughs. Two people. One summer that could change everything. "This is not a love story," she said."Good. I've never been big on those," he responded. "But this might hurt a little." "Well, then make it hurt good." So begins Ran Walker's 19th book, a collection of microfiction that tells the story of a relationship between two unnamed characters and their romance over the course of a single summer in New York City. Flowing like a mixtape,...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
He has left his hometown to avoid an ex-girlfriend who has since remarried. In his new town, he lives a mundane existence until a new co-worker invites him into her intimate world and pushes him farther from the safety of his old identity. In this experimental novella, Ran Walker uses flash fiction to write a “fuga hacia adelante” (flight forward) story, modeled after the works of Argentinean author César Aira. In a story that uses no names,...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
“You're trying to do too much with this collection,” a friend told him. “I can’t tell if you’re writing jokes or poems or stories. This book is all over the place!” He nodded. Maybe it was. But then there are so many different aspects to a person’s personality, he figured. Maybe an eclectic collection of stories wasn’t such a bad thing after all. At least he hoped so. Ran Walker's twentieth book pulls together a wide variety of...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Chauncey “Cool” Brown has just been named one of Soul Sista magazine’s 25 Most Eligible Bachelors and the news couldn’t have come at a better time. His business, C&J’s Rare Grooves, is struggling to stay afloat, but Soul Sista has a suggestion that could change everything: write a column for their website where he documents his dates with three women selected by their readers. Cool signs on, mainly for the publicity that he believes it...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Stephen King once said that books are portable magic. Ran Walker decided to take this phrase a bit more literally in his third short story collection, bringing to life vibrant new landscapes of both the strange and the familiar. A writer finds himself in a love triangle where one of the women is a ghost. A woman discovers that her cure for alopecia has unintended consequences. An artist paints a woman he has been dreaming about, only to discover...
9) Daykeeper
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Ed Nelson is struggling to recover from the devastating loss of his wife to cancer. As Ed’s depression begins to deepen, his older brother steps in to help him make the critical changes necessary to bring him back from the brink. Into this new environment walks Tanya, a woman half his age, who immediately reminds him of his late wife. Ed and Tanya develop an unlikely friendship, but as things quickly evolve into something more intimate, he must...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In this sexy follow up to 30 Love: A Novel, Charles “Chucky” Buckner arrives at the wedding of his friends Dizzy and Lailah, but he has no idea of what awaits him. Almost immediately he finds himself connecting with Lailah’s best friend, Marcia, a woman who opens him up to the best time of his life. There’s only one catch: Marcia is on a temporary hiatus from her boyfriend to see if they have what it takes to get married, and that hiatus will...
11) The Illest
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The year is 1997, and Troy Dobbs has just graduated from Ellison-Wright College in Atlanta. For Troy's graduation gift, his Aunt Flo allows him to housesit her Brooklyn Heights brownstone for a month while she travels abroad. For the first week, things are cool and uneventful, but when a beautiful movie star shows up at his front door to return something she borrowed from his aunt, Troy's humdrum vacation is transformed into an adventure that he will...
12) 30 Love
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Dizzy and Lailah are life-long best friends who, on a whim, make a deal at the age of 20 that if they are both single by the time they turn 30, they will simply marry each other. While Lailah has long since forgotten this promise, Dizzy hasn't. When he proposes and Lailah reluctantly accepts, the road to the altar is anything but easy. In the vein of Love and Basketball and Brown Sugar, Ran Walker brings you the guy's point-of-view in this hilarious...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Less than three hours after Lincoln Davis's graduation, his father delivers him an ultimatum: come back home to Mississippi and start paying rent on his bedroom or fend for himself in Atlanta as a completely independent adult. Choosing the latter, Lincoln finds himself meeting a whole new cast of characters who help him to navigate this new terrain. Among this cast, however, is a mysterious woman who could change his understanding of everything he...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
“Ran Walker's Mojo's Guitar plays an authentic Blues song on the page, filled with all the sorrow, heartache, and beauty that entails. This layered, haunting book is worth listening to.” -- Mat Johnson, author of Pym and Incognegro “Ran Walker brings the blues into the 21st century and shows us how we can never forget our roots as long as we keep the love in our hearts. Thank you, Ran, for picking up the guitar of fiction and fretting together...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this first time collaboration between authors Ran Walker and Sabin Prentis, they explore the lives of four people who occupy a brownstone in a heavily gentrified neighborhood in the city of New Hollis. With stories ranging from the owner who wrestles with the pressure to sell her building to the former DJ who is finding a new life after parole, the four stories in Four Floors examine the intersection of gentrification, hip-hop, love, life, and...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In his second major story collection, Ran Walker takes on issues of race, cultural appropriation, politics, family, relationships, and the value of Black lives. In the title story, two young men go to participate in a handshake competition but find themselves up against an obstacle they did not anticipate. In “The Impersonator” a comedian finds a job that ultimately contributes to the legacy of another person. In “The Box” a college student...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In this diverse collection of short stories, with settings ranging from Mississippi to New York City, Ran Walker explores a myriad of themes, such as unrequited love, forgiveness, and hope. Whether a grandmother’s secret is discovered by her granddaughter, a writer falls in love with the painting of a woman, or a college professor is invited to rap on his student’s mixtape, these stories paint a vivid picture of a world where music, love, and...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Kamal Jackson is a black novelist who has reached an impasse in his career. His work is either too white for black audiences or too black for white audiences. He decides to do something about it, in spite of the opposition he gets from his new love interest, Yasmin. Concocting a Caucasian-sounding pseudonym and a backstory to rival J. D. Salinger's, Kamal sets out to rework his most current novel for a new round of publishers.Kamal must now ask if...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Miles Thompson, an R&B singer-turned-music teacher, is still reeling from the violent loss of his only son when he crosses paths with Ja Kendrick Brown, a fifteen-year-old homeless piano prodigy. As the two form an unlikely bond, they soon discover that music and friendship have the power to help a sonless father and a fatherless son find life after loss.
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