Last week's feature story, "Story of My Life," crack-dealer-turned-author Quentin Carter admits that his past as a criminal -- plus writing all of his books behind bars -- probably helped make him a street lit superstar on the Essence bestseller list. For those of you discouraged that you'll never had the street cred necessary to be a writer like Carter, don't worry. You just have to look at the east side of the state, and Triple Crown novelist Keisha Ervin.
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​Since one of this week's Top Stories from the Fat City is our list of the Top Ten Cafes to write a Novel, we thought it was time to take a more literary approach to this weekly list of potent past posts. Some critics of blogging insist that this mode of internet communication is driving readers away from reading the classics, from Aristotle to Zora Neale Hurston, but that's not true in Fat City, where every post is carefully translated from ancient Greek texts. Including this one. But ba
