- Source: Payback Press
The Payback Press was a specialist imprint of Canongate Books devoted to (initially) reprints of classic black crime novels, which later branched out into contemporary black fiction. Notable authors included Chester Himes and Clarence Cooper Jr and Iceberg Slim. As with Rebel Inc., after its successful foundation in the late 1990s, it was discontinued due to a financial crisis in its parent company.
Notable books published by Payback Press
= Fiction
=Black, Clarence Cooper, Jr.
The Farm, Clarence Cooper, Jr.
The Scene, Clarence Cooper, Jr.
Weed & The Syndicate, Clarence Cooper, Jr.
Howard Street, Nathan Heard
The Harlem Cycle (Volumes 1-3), Chester Himes
The Lonely Crusade, Chester Himes
Not Without Laughter, Langston Hughes
One People, Guy Kennaway
Under African Skies, ed. by Charles Larson
Indaba, My Children, Credo Mutwa
Portrait of a Young Man Drowning, Charles Perry
Giveadamn Brown, Robert Deane Pharr
The Nigger Factory, Gil Scott-Heron
The Vulture, Gil Scott-Heron
Corner Boy, Herbert Simmons
Man Walking on Eggshells, Herbert Simmons
Death Wish, Iceberg Slim
Airtight Willie and Me, Iceberg Slim
Long White Con, Iceberg Slim
Mama Black Widow, Iceberg Slim
Trick Baby, Iceberg Slim
Doom Fox, Iceberg Slim
The Jones Men, Vern Smith
Panther, Melvin Van Peebles
One for New York, John A. Williams
Spooks, Spies, and Private Eyes, ed. by Paula L. Woods
= Non-fiction
=Fight the Power, Chuck D
The New Beats, S.H. Fernando, Jr.
Born Fi' Dead, Laurie Gunst
Blues People, LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka)
Beneath the Underdog, Charles Mingus
Black Fire, Nelson Peery
Black Talk, Ben Sidran
Pimp, Iceberg Slim
The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim, Iceberg Slim
Space is the Place, John F. Szwed
Sweet Sweeback's Badasssss Song, Melvin Van Peebles
= Poetry
=The Fire People, ed. by Lemn Sissay
External links
Canongate index of reviews