Tales of the Out and the Gone

Comprising short fiction from the early 1970s to the twenty-first century—most of which has never been published—Tales of the Out&the Gone reflects the astounding evolution of America’s most provocative literary anti-hero.


The first section of the book, “War Stories,” offers six stories enmeshed in the vola-tile politics of the 1970s and 1980s. The second section, “Tales of the Out&the Gone,” reveals Amiri Baraka’s increasing literary adventurousness, combining an u…