Another of his novels set in African-American Philadelphia.

The first book of its kind, Our Caribbean is an anthology of lesbian and gay writing from across the Antilles. The author and activist Thomas Glave has gathered outstanding fiction, nonfiction, memoir, and poetry by little-known writers together with selections by internationally celebrated figures such as Jos

Includes Randall Kenan's essay on North Carolina.

From the bestselling editors of The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup comes an American road trip in book form: original writing on all 50 states by 50 of our finest novelists, journalists, and essayists.

Inspired by the example of the legendary WPA American Guide series of the 1930s and '40s, now 50 of our foremost writers have produced original pieces of reportage and memoir that capture the 50 states in our time, creating a fresh portrait of America as it lives and breathes today.

At turns poignant and funny, and always insightful, these 50 writers tell us something lasting and revealing about each state through personal memory or contemporary reporting that captures the essential qualities that make each state its own. With an array of revealing facts and figures comparing the 50 states in a range of surprising measures (toothlessness, military enlistment, suicide), State by State is more than an anthology: It is a classic American road movie in book form.

Featuring original writing on all fifty states

Alabama by George Packer

Alaska by Paul Greenberg

Arizona by Lydia Millet

Arkansas by Kevin Brockmeier

California by William T. Vollmann

Colorado by Benjamin Kunkel

Connecticut by Rick Moody

Delaware by Craig Taylor

Florida by Joshua Ferris

Georgia by Ha Jin

Hawaii by Tara Bray Smith

Idaho by Anthony Doerr

Illinois by Dave Eggers

Indiana by Susan Choi

Iowa by Dagoberto Gilb

Kansas by Jim Lewis

Kentucky by John Jeremiah Sullivan

Louisiana by Joshua Clark

Maine by Heidi Julavits

Maryland by Myla Goldberg Massachusetts by John Hodgman

Michigan by Mohammed Naseehu Ali

Minnesota by Philip Connors

Mississippi by Barry Hannah

Missouri by Jacki Lyden

Montana by Sarah Vowell

Nebraska by Alexander Payne

Nevada by Charles Bock

New Hampshire by Will Blythe

New Jersey by Anthony Bourdain

New Mexico by Ellery Washington

New York by Jonathan Franzen

North Carolina by Randall Kenan

North Dakota by Louise Erdrich

Ohio by Susan Orlean

Oklahoma by S.E. Hinton

Oregon by Joe Sacco

Pennsylvania by Andrea Lee

Rhode Island by Jhumpa Lahiri

South Carolina by Jack Hitt

South Dakota by Said Sayrafiezadeh

Tennessee by Ann Patchett

Texas by Cristina Henriquez

Utah by David Rakoff

Vermont by Alison Bechdel

Virginia by Tony Horwitz

Washington by Carrie Brownstein

West Virginia by Jayne Anne Phillips

Wisconsin by Daphne Beal

Wyoming by Alexandra Fuller

and an afterword on Washington, D.C.: A Conversation with Edward P. Jones,

Giving voice to a population rarely acknowledged in writings about the South, "Sweet Tea" collects life stories from black gay men who were born, raised, and continue to live in the southern United States. E. Patrick Johnson challenges stereotypes of the South as "backward" or "repressive," suggesting that these men draw upon the performance of "southernness"--politeness, coded speech, and religiosity, for example--to legitimate themselves as members of both southern and black cultures. At the same time, Johnson argues, they deploy those same codes to establish and build friendship networks and to find sexual partners and life partners.

Traveling to every southern state, Johnson conducted interviews with more than seventy black gay men between the ages of 19 and 93. The voices collected here dispute the idea that gay subcultures flourish primarily in northern, secular, urban areas. In addition to filling a gap in the sexual history of the South, Sweet Tea offers a window into the ways that black gay men negotiate their sexual and racial identities with their southern cultural and religious identities. The narratives also reveal how they build and maintain community in many spaces and activities, some of which may appear to be antigay.

Ultimately, "Sweet Tea" validates the lives of these black gay men and reinforces the role of storytelling in both African American and southern cultures.