Welcome to the world of something different

You're in the right place if your interests run beyond the beaten path. Here are worlds not like yours and mine. Neither fantasy nor science fiction, but the strangeness, beauty, and savagery of the real, audaciously reimagined.
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"Gaiter's lively prose presses against the confines of every sentence." - Kirkus Reviews on "A Memory of Fictions (or) Just Tiddy-Boom"
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Gaiter manages to keep the reader guessing up to the last... a riveting tale of inter-racial hatred and its effects on both blacks and whites." - I Love a Mystery on "Bourbon Street"
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"…both grittier and more real than the [old west] frequently seen in Hollywood Westerns and on television." - Harvard Magazine on "I Dreamt I Was in Heaven - The Rampage of the Rufus Buck Gang"


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A MEMORY OF FICTIONS (or) Just Tiddy-Boom

Part remembrance, part fiction, this modern, jazzy take on the bildungsroman employs a fugue-like structure to paint a vivid portrait of Jessie Vincent Grandier as he battles to reconcile his gay, black, decidedly bourgeois existence with the expectations and preconceptions of those around him, black and white.

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BOURBON STREET


New Orleans. Mardi Gras. 1958.
The half-mad, half-black son of a white gangster wants vengeance for his mother's murder.
He'll tear the world apart to get it.

By the way, his father's the one who killed her.

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I DREAMT I WAS IN HEAVEN - The Rampage of the Rufus Buck Gang

The historical novel of five black and Indian teenagers in 1895 who terrorized Indian lands in a vain attempt to wrest them back from U.S. encroachment and white men’s control.

Based on the shocking true story, a uniquely American quest for glory and redemption in 1895.

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IN THE COMPANY OF EDUCATED MEN

At the dawn of the Reagan 80s, a wealthy recent Harvard graduate sets off to learn more about the country he’s seeing redefined all around him. He discovers a place darker and more dangerous in its terrifying innocence than anything he’d imagined, a place from which he barely escapes alive.

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WHITES SHACKLED THEMSELVES TO RACE - And Blacks Have Yet to Free Ourselves

Non-fiction that considers how to move beyond the painful racial framing imposed on our slave forebears hundreds of years ago through mining the rich, Afro-American historical record and the astonishing cultural treasure that we have forged over hundreds of years.

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I AM THE WHORE AND THE HOLY ONE

In 1995 Los Angeles, the gruesome death of Father Alex Shipman, a young Catholic priest who was also the scion of a wealthy, internationally famous political family, leads an investigator to truths that could shatter—or redeem—the faith of millions.

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