Street Lit & True Crime
Gorilla Convict has been interviewing and writing about street lit authors from the jump. Check out these exclusive interviews with your favortie urban fiction authors and true crime writers who pen stories on American gangsters.
This is the true story of a gangland hit man, and the parallel people and events that altered Detroit's organized crime underworld. Drug wars, conspi ...
LeRon Barton is the author of Straight Dope: A 360 Degree Look into American Drug Culture. This book looks into American drug culture and delves into ...
The streets of New York are vicious, as Tupac found out when he got robbed and shot in an event that ignited the East Coast/West Coast rap war which l ...
Boston's crack era began in earnest in late 1986, when Darryl Whiting stepped into Roxbury's Orchard Park projects for the first time. The jewels he w ...
When people think of Detroit they think of the Motor City and the Lions, Pistons and Tigers. All storied professional sports franchises, but those in ...
Cavario H. is a well-known and respected member of the urban/hip-hop community having made his bones and honed his journalistic and writing chops as a ...
Shakim Bio is a street general from Queens who has been buried in the belly of the beast for the last twenty years. But he hasn't let that stop him fr ...
The Short Side Blues Book II of The Short North Trilogy is a story that deals with change, which is easier said than done. A wise person once said tha ...
With the success of American Gangster, the fictionalized story of drug lord Frank Lucas' life, more and more true crime books on inner-city street leg ...
When I first entered the netherworld of prison in 1993 the last vestiges of the convict were dying out. The convict was the ultimate prison ideal whic ...
When I first came up with the idea to form Gorilla Convict Publications in 2005, I didn’t know what would become of the company or where it would ta ...
Coming to you straight out of the penitentiary, street lit author and Center Park Bloods member, Clifford 'Spud' Johnson. He's been in the feds since ...