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Born and raised in South Central Los Angeles, I've been an activist and
organizer on issues ranging from police abuse, the anti-Apartheid
Movement, organized labor and pre and post '92 civil unrest race
relations. Being a recreational reader as a teenager -- due in no small
part to my mom being a librarian -- made me want to tell the stories
that, particularly in those days, weren't being told in a lot of the
books and comics I was reading. That eventually led to me to publish
several crime and mystery novels, some dealing with race, class and
social conditions.
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Bailout, Shmailout
Gary Phillips: Congresswoman Kang re-emerges on Capitol Hill in time to put her two cents in on the economic crisis. Paulson takes a knee, and Lacy Mills goes off the rez--way off.
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The Land of Nod
Gary Phillips: This Week: Various players get ready for the Big Sleep.
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Our Man Countryman
Gary Phillips: This Week: Ex-black ops agent Dieter Countryman comes to terms with a life misspent as the very dogs of chaos he helped unleash come back to bite him.
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Sex and Violence
Gary Phillips: This Week: Things get all twisty as Kang makes some moves her own damn self, and her slacker brother contemplates the Big Wave.
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Death and Dying
Gary Phillips: This Week: Congresswoman Kang hangs out in the loo, wide stance and all.
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The Bruja
Gary Phillips: This Week: Dieter Countryman would like to do some enhanced interrogating, while Congresswoman Kang drops in to get in the groove with a witchy woman.
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Shooters
Gary Phillips: This Week: It's all bang, bang, bang, baby!
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So CK builds on what's gone before, while capitalizing on the topicality and interactivity of the Web. Reader involvement is tough on a writer of fiction accustomed to acting on his own ideas and attitudes about where the story is going. But during a crucial election season in which our basic values as a society will be tested and tempered, there's a whole lot of stuff going on to keep track of regularly. So as Congresswoman Cynthia Kang deals with her personal and political fortunes, while murder and chicanery abound, I welcome your suggestions about what real-world events might be woven into each chapter as the twists and turns of Citizen Kang plays out.
Let's see where the story takes us.
Gary Phillips
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