`Gumbo: A Celebration of African-American Writing,' `Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement,' `My Soul Has Grown Deep: Classics of Early African-American Literature'.(The Orlando Sentinel)

Byline: Nancy Pate

WHAT A FEAST

``Gumbo: A Celebration of African-American Writing,'' edited by Marita Golden and E. Lynn Harris (Harlem Moon/Broadway Books, $17.95, paperback): With proceeds going to the Hurston/Wright Foundation, which nurtures writers of African descent, this anthology is being described as a literary "rent party." More than 70 writers contributed stories to this tasty mix, writing in a variety of styles. Their contributions are divided into four themed sections dealing with family, personal history, love and identity. "School," an excerpt from Veronica Chambers' Miss Black America, is a first-person narrative about a girl trying to …