Omar Tyree throws in the towel

For the record, I never called my work “street literature” and Inever will. When I began to publish ground breaking contemporarynovels with Flyy Girl in 1993, and Capital City in 1994, I calledthem “urban classics.” They were “urban” because they dealt withpeople of color in the inner-city or “urban” population areas. Theywere “classics” because I considered myself one of the first to startthe work of a new era. But now, after sixteen years and sixteennovels in the African-American adult urban fiction game, I feel likethe man who created the monster Frankenstein. Things have gotten way out of hand. So it’s now time to put up my pen and move on tosomething new, until the readership is ready to develop a liking forfresh material on other subjects.

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