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The Best Short Stories of 2021: The O. Henry Stories. Get Down is, in the words of Edward P. Jones, "touching and sensitively observed … from the first word to the last."

Praise and Reviews

“American literature tends to offer its black characters only two moods to play: angry or mad .

The kids in Get Down are trapped between their own good breeding and their burning desire to join the house party of sex, romance, and bad behavior that seems to be happening on some other block, down some other, more dangerous street.

Brooklyn, New York: Akashic Books, 2013.  

Nonfiction

• “Live from the Belly of the Beast: In 2020 West Philadelphia was the best place in this terrible world,” Philadelphia Magazine, June 2021.

• “Conversations with Microagressions and the Spirit World.” in Eds. Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin.

  Winter 2013. 

• “Secret Pool” in USA Noir: The Best of the Akashic Series. Temple, Johnny, ed. which is why Asali Solomon's debut collection, Get Down, comes as such a blessed relief. December 22, 2014. 

•  “Cold Water for Blood Stains.” The Kenyon Review. New York: Nation Books, March 2019.

• “Killing the Donald Trump in Us: How to be Less Like the Man We Elected to Lead Us,” Very Smart Brothas, January 2, 2018. 

• “Asali Solomon Recommends,” Poets & Writers, December 10, 2015. 

• “Difference”, O: the Oprah Magazine. 

• “Black History,”Paris Review Daily, November 24, 2015. 

• “Black Fuzzy Thing” in Naked: Black Women Bare All About Skin, Hair, Hips, Lips and Other Parts.

  While Asali Solomon writes with uncanny acumen about men, Get Down will resonate with anyone--male or female, black or white, young or old--who has ever felt like an outsider.” —Jennifer Egan