Email Author Greg Tate

1999 Stories by Greg Tate

• The Style Bible

  published November 30, 1999

  Given that the Bible is the ur-text of Western literature if not 20th-century civilization, why not have a bevy of acclaimed modern writers write... More >>

• Scrambling On Eggshells

  published August 24, 1999

  The Wu Tang genus of the species paranoid-conspiratorial pomo-negritudus is broad enough to encompass everything that Sun Ra, George Clinton, the... More >>

• Tear the Roof off Jungleland

  published August 10, 1999

  Where are all my Negroes at? Why aren't there more Black people out here screaming Bruuuuce like Dolly Earshatterer to the rear of my right lobe?... More >>

• The Executor’s Song

  published July 6, 1999

  If dead men tell no tales, they certainly don't finish novels, particularly those 40-odd years in the making. Suffice to say, all claims that the... More >>

• Copland

  published May 18, 1999

  In the matter of The People v. Volpe, et al., better known to tabloid readers as the Louima Torture Trial: Can we first say that the... More >>

• Blood and Bridges

  published April 20, 1999

  Human rights movements are different from the rest. Unlike revolutions, which come together in order to overturn empires, or labor unions, which... More >>

• Looking Blackward

  published March 9, 1999

  Walking on Water was culled from a heroic enterprise: the author's six-year crisscrossing of these United States in search of the meaning... More >>