Trey Ellis\'s uproariously funny debut novel Platitudes, first published in 1988, takes on conflicts within the African American literary community.
Alternately telling the story about the coming of age of Earle and Dorothy-two Black middle-class teenagers, sex-starved in New York City-the battling writers sneak ever, and dangerously, closer to r.
Dewayne Wellington, a failing Black experimental novelist, and Isshee Ayam, a radical feminist author, collaborate on Dewayne\'s latest sexist comedy.
Trey Ellis\'s uproariously funny debut novel Platitudes, first published in 1988, takes on conflicts within the African American literary community