New Film Looks At Controversy Over Street Lit Brown and Miller are cousins whose relationship is so close that they finish each other’s sentences. Miller, who directed the 70-minute film Street Lit With Publishing Cred: From Prison to a Four-Book Deal On a recent Saturday night, Dewitt Gilmore, 41, stepped onto an idling bus waiting to make the trip from Columbus Circle in Manhattan to the Groveland Correctional Facility From the Streets to the Libraries In one book, the hero spirals toward a violent death dealing drugs on the streets of Laurelton, Queens, witnessing, along the way, a baby ripped apart by bullets. In another, a convict plots the seduction of his prison psychotherapist. Their Eyes Were Reading Smut I was ashamed and mortified to see my books sitting on the same shelves as these titles; and secondly, as someone who makes a living as a writer I felt Birdman Talks Cash Money Content and Street Lit New Books In the Hood An African American Author Raps the Genre But Librarians Defend It Urban fiction, street lit, ghetto fiction, gangsta lit, whatever you call it, this gritty genre of African American writing is enormously popular Hip-Hop Fiction Drawing More Readers to Black Lit n the 1920s and '30s, the Harlem Renaissance set off an explosion of creativity in arts and culture among African Americans, introducing readers