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Odie Hawkins
An enchanting intro to a collection of unforgettable characters-Elizabeth, Queen of the Projects ; the girl Billie who sings like Lady Day; young Randolph who, to his family’s embarrassment, grows…
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Monday evening comn’ down-the dreariest day of the week anywhere, but especially in the ghettos (yea, y'all, they still there) where people have taken their hangovers and other symptoms of…
There was no sharper con man on the streets of Chicago than Elijah Brookes. Women were his preferred prey-but no mark and no bankroll was safe when Elijah was on…
Chester L. Simmons, nicknamed The Great Lawd Buddha by his hip constituents because of his almond shaped eyes and his generous tummy, is one of those delightfully free spirits that…
An enchanting intro to a collection of unforgettable characters.
Bobo, Burks, Leo (sometimes, when into imaginative self-hatred, alias Tony De Medrow), Billy Woods, Herb Cross, Bruce, Mooney, Johnny Fox, Bernard…
Midnight offers us a sensitive view inside the soul of a young African American gangster who is influenced by an older man, a convict, to look into his African side…
Portrait of Simone is the poignant story of a young soldier stationed in the Deep South, in the recent past, and his romance with a woman nearly twice his age…
"I lit my fire, I greased my skillet with virgin pressed olive oil, and I cooked." That's one of the statements Chester L. Simmons, Jr. made about his career as…
“Mr. Bonobo[1] Bliss aka ‘Bo’” is a humanoid designed by the Dr. Maxwell Waters Group to accompany six female astronauts on a long duration mission. “BO’s” presence must be kept…
Sweet Peter Deeder a.k.a. ‘Mr. Sweets’ “First off I have to say this loud and make it very clear from the very beginning; I am a descendant of one of…
SHACKLES ACROSS TIME “Shackles Across Time” traces the history of a curse, of a spiritual fatwa, in a sense, on an African slave trader’s family in West Africa, and the…
\“\"Hollow Daze\”\“ is the fictional account of an imaginary publishing house and the shenanigans that occur between the publishers and the writers whose books have been published by this publishing…
"Black, White & Brown On The Blue Line" is an invitation to join a collection of strangers on an emotionally adventurous trip, from Long Beach, California to Downtown Los Angeles…
The Matador Negro “Azucar” (Black Matador, “Sugar”), is the story of a young African-American man, born and raised on the Southside of Chicago, who is obsessed by the idea of…
“"Snake Doctor” is a modern, African-American Faustian epic. The story is of a man who made a supernatural deal with a wizard in the Equatorial Rain Forest of Northern Ghana…
… Hawkins … delivers a novel that mixes the streetwise lingo of vintage pimp fiction together with scathing satirical commentary about the spread of global capitalism, the Hurricane Katrina disaster…
Palm Wine Junction has several stories reflecting the Pan-African Occult genre. I invite the perceptive reader to determine which stories come from that genre. I would also suggest that the…
The "Ghetto Sketches" was written in 1962, published in 1972. The ghettos in Chicago (North, South, Westside) provided the foundation for the novel. It is an impressionistic study of Washburne…
"Urban Nomads and Other Stories" offers the reader the possibility of being able to experience lifestyles, different people, circumstances that he/she might not ever experience during the normal course of…
Odie Hawkins created the Pan-African Occult genre and "The Snake 20/20" is one of his finest examples of that genre. Hawkins seduces us from the Frankensteins, Werewolves and Vampires of…
The Lil' Gourmet Cookbook focuses on food that is good for you. The best kind of food and exercise create a harmonious lifestyle. It's not about a lot of running…
"The Story Teller's Story" details 75 years of an African-American's jammed up life. Hawkins offers us the insights and perspectives of a very observant African-American writer, who uses his experiences…
Valonga Price takes a three-year sabbatical from the grime of owning her own company to try to discover her true self. Armed with questions that have been whirling around in…
Henrik Malan was the South African secret agent who devised the plan to have the Black American ghettos destroy themselves by supplying them with a cheap but highly addictive drug…
Let Chester take you on a journey through Spain in his search to find himself-and write about it. He hooks up with El Encanto, a star-crossed matador. Then back to…
In the post-Watts Rebellion 1970s, Chester L. Simmons takes up the study of martial arts-Hapkido and Tae Kwon Do. Author Odie Hawkins, using his special blend of wry humor, incisiveness…
Chicago, the center of America’s heartland, from its founding in the late 1700s by Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, a French-educated black man, to the modern day Gypsies who live…
The deeply personal story of Odie Hawkins’s journey, from the poorest of the poor childhood in Chicago to Hollywood screenwriter-and the people who deeply mattered. A tough, touching autobiography.
Odie Hawkins utilizes the same thrust, power, and creativity that made Ghetto Sketches his first bestseller. He has moved the focus from Chicago to Los Angeles; and once again, he…
"Kwanzaa for Conrad & The Survival Tango" offers a gritty, sometimes funny picture of a brilliant man who manages to swim out of schizophrenia into a "normal" creative life as…
Odie Hawkins,Ralph H. Vernon
The seven astronauts who are about to embark on a Long Duration Mission (LDM) have decided that they would like to have female companionship. \“Lady Bliss,\” designed by the mad…
Odie Hawkins Aka Willie West
Beginning with the title - "Conversations with Likka Sto' Rufus". Rufus is a complex African-American character. It would not be accurate to call him "Liquor Store Rufus", because the cultural…
