I'm putting on the hat of literary critic. This may could back to haunt me because the same criticism might be leveled at my work, but I must say this. In African American literature there seems to be a dearth of good taste. There is also a total lack of continuity and...

Crime fiction is not all spilled blood and gratuitous sex. There is a certian mindlessness about that. Good crime fiction is consisitent, has continuity and is creditable. Intergration of life and fantasy -- that's good fiction -- that's good literature. 

A writer, to b...