Brent Carpenter

Bald Ambition: a Collection of Awarding Winning Essays, Bios of Black Gay Historical Figures, Black Pride Diaries, Erotic Short Stories and More Brent Carpenter

Bald Ambition is a potpourri of ideas, essays, writing styles and assorted madness representing a unique voice of black gayness regurgitated from the ghetto bowels of Detroit Brent's Fagenda and Brent ReloadedFrom 2001 through 2004, the outrageous, thought-provoking, award-winning column in the Detroit-based Between The Lines newspaper chronicled the life of the writer struggling to cope with the everyday freak shows and fallacies of being black, gay, HIV-positive and bipolar in America. Includes such classic essays as "Dreading the Term 'N-Word' More than the Word Itself," "C'mon, Baby, Let Me Just Stick the Head In," "In Search of the Perfect Orgy," "When the Bottom Falls Out of the Market," "Girl, He Tore my Guts Out," and "When are You Queens Going to Let Go of Astrology??" Historically Black, Historically Gay40 short bios and beautifully rendered drawings of black gay historical figures, including Barbara Jordan, George Washington Carver, Angela Davis, Bayard Rustin, Billie Holiday, Benjamin Banneker and many more! Black Pride DiariesA snapshot of the Black Gay Pride circuit as witnessed by the writer during three summers of book tours! Verse PerverseA twisted collection of five very naughty black gay erotic fantasies, including the unspeakably blunt "Prisoners of Lust!" Don't miss out on this groundbreaking latest work from the up-and-coming writer of the electrifying novels Man of the Cloth, This Time Around, and The 21st Century Chronicles of Thugg the Barbarian King!