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Gorilla Convict has been called “the most potent voice of the streets.” This website, which features stories on prison life, street legends, street and prison gangs, the Mafia and street lit and true crime writers is a fusion of the ghetto, criminal and prison cultures that is vividly expressed in the lyrics of gangsta rap and hip-hop artists rhymes […]
Author Seth Ferranti brings his readers true crime stories from inside prison. Interviewing imprisoned gangsters and crime bosses as well as law enforcement figures, he manages to paint a refreshing picture of the American gangland […]
The website Gorilla Convict has been a favorite among crime readers. Its authors include many men who know the underworld and the world behind bars from inside out […]
Back in 1994, shortly after 22-year-old Seth Ferranti was sentenced to 24 years in prison for his role as the leader of a drug ring, he took advantage of the Federal Pell Grant in order to get a college education while serving his time […]
Street Literature, also known as Urban Fiction or Ghetto Lit, has established itself as a new type of African American popular fiction since the late ‘90s. Initiated with novels like The Coldest Winter Ever (1999) by Sister Souljah and Teri Woods’ True to the Game (1999), the genre now consists of thousands of works […]
Transit, better known as “diesel therapy” to the feds, is maybe the worst part of being incarcerated. Imagine being handcuffed with a chain around your waist securing the handcuffs to your stomach area. You can’t move your arms up and down or side to side […]
Seth “Soul Man” Ferranti knows plenty of street legends as he has spent the past seventeen years of his lie incarcerated with many of them […]
A few years ago, Alice K. Turner wrote a book entitled The History of Hell. The book traces the idea of hell throughout history. In like manner, Jeffrey Burton Russell wrote The Devil: Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christianity. His book traces the idea of the Devil in a period of history […]
Let me start by saying that despite the criticisms I’ll bring up later in this review, I was hooked on this book from the first page, and I read it quickly. My attention didn’t wane once and when I had a spare moment or two, you could probably find me pulling out the bookmark and reading this thing […]
As an accomplished author, journalist and publisher, Seth Ferranti is most recognized for covering organized crime personalities that range from drug lords to wiseguys. He has access, on a daily basis, that few journalists can claim […]
