In a companion volume to I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like, Rebecca Carroll presents candid, powerful, sometimes humorous interviews with 17 of America's best black male novelists, poets, journalists, and playwrights. They talk about their individual experience as black men and as black writers in America. Each interview has been shaped into a single-voice narrative and is accompanied by a brief biography, a full-page photograph of the author, and an excerpt from his work.