Hardy is an award-winning entertainment feature writer and cultural critic. He also recently added playwright to his literary resume: his first theatrical production, Confessions of a Homo Thug Porn Star-a one-man show about adult film star Tiger Tyson-recently won the Downtown Urban Theater Festival's Best Short Prize. Show.,' will be included in the upcoming Best Gay Erotica 2011. Hardy contributed the new introductory essay to the reissue of the groundbreaking Black Gay anthology, In The Life (2008), and his short story, 'The Last Picture. B-Boy Blues was a Lammy finalist in 1995 (Best Small Press Title) and has become required reading in many African American/multicultural literature and gay/queer studies college courses. The seventh installment in the series, 'Is It Still Jood To Ya?', is featured in the best-selling anthology, Visible Lives: Three Stories in Tribute to E. The sextet chronicles the relationship between a Buppie from Brooklyn and a homeboy-bike messenger from Harlem. JAMES EARL HARDY is the author of the best-selling B-Boy Blues series: B-Boy Blues (1994), praised as the first gay hip hop love story and prominently featured in Spike Lee’s Get On The Bus it’s sequel, 2nd Time Around (1996) If Only For One Nite (1997) The Day Eazy-E Died (2001) Love The One You’re With (2002) and A House Is Not a Home (2005).
