An anthology of the best short stories, plays, essays, poetry, and novels-in-progress to emerge from Budd Schulberg's famed Watt Writers' Workshop, founded after the 1965 riots.
"What a beautiful realization of the Negro's cry for dignity, a cry not only from the mind but from the soul... From the Ashes is a monumental work... in its depiction of the agony and frustration and destruction that have stricken our land." - Piri Thomas, Saturday Review