Fiction. LGBT Studies. African American Studies. G. Winston James's stories examine the individual, familial, and societal complexities of desire. Candidly rendered, they unabashedly consider the formation of personal and sexual identity in a world in which the carnal is highly policed, variously dangerous and all too often denied. SHAMING THE DEVIL is an erotic, brutal, emotional, and thoroughly thought-provoking debut collection that is likely to arouse, inspire, and disturb readers, even as they continue, inexorably, to turn its astonishing pages.

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G. Winston James is a Jamaican-born poet, short fiction writer, essayist, and editor. A former fellow of the Millay Colony for the Arts, he holds an MFA in Fiction from Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and is the author of the short fiction collection SHAMING THE DEVIL: COLLECTED SHORT STORIES, the poetry collection The Damaged Good: Poems Around Love and the Lambda Literary Award finalist collection Lyric: Poems Along a Broken Road. James is also co-editor of the historic anthologies, VOICES RISING: CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF BLACK LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER WRITING and the Lambda Literary Award finalist publication Spirited: Affirming the Soul and Black Gay/Lesbian Identity.

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