The First Hit Changes You -- Get Out of Jail Free -- Buffoonery and Violence -- THE TOURNAMENT "Pilot" -- Expats and Allies -- Encounter with a Geniuth -- Blinding Lights -- "Welcome to the Neighborhood." -- Lost in Space -- Profound Whiteness -- Jay-Z and the Owners -- The Old Kanye -- Directed by Spike Lee -- "You're Not Rich." -- Jack and Jill and the Black Elite -- The Cost of Living -- A Man Named Lunsford Lane -- Black People and Isolation -- Thoughts from a Therapist -- I Quit

"A timely, vulnerable, and cutting-edge exploration of the pressures and pitfalls of writing while Black in America in this urgently needed addition to the national conversation of race, money, and art"--