Keep me posted on the latest book releases, signings, conferences and conversations.
Beloved father, son, mobilizer, entrepreneur and rapper, the late Nipsey Hussle‘s first biography ☛THE MARATHON DON’T STOP: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF NIPSEY HUSSLE [pub: Atria Books] is dropping March 24, 2020. The admittedly unauthorized book is written by respected hip-hop journalist Rob Kenner.
Catch EGOT-award-winning author Whoopi Goldberg on tour promoting her delightful new book ☛THE UNQUALIFIED HOSTESS: I DO IT MY WAY SO YOU CAN TOO! [pub: Rizzoli]. The View host is signing books on Long Island this Friday, October 11th at Book Revue Book Shop in Huntington and at Washington D.C.’s Politics And Prose on Friday,
Did you catch Rihanna’s tweet announcing her spectacular visual autobiography ☛RIHANNA [pub: Phaidon Press] this morning? The singer-turned-mogul-turned-author’s book ships October 24th. The 504-page book with over 1,000 photos is $150.
Over 5 years in the making…
Ah, boy, I think the gutsiest thing I’ve ever done — well, personally, make the decision to stay in my marriage. Publicly, politically, run for president. And keep going. Just get up every day and keep going.
— Hillary Rodham Clinton
Thanks to a post on Instagram two Saturdays ago from one of my favorite literary authors, Lauren F. Sharma, I discovered her contribution to ☛US AGAINST ALZHEIMER’S: STORIES OF FAMILY, LOVE, AND FAITH [pub: Arcade Publishing] edited by Marita Golden.
Raising a chilled martini glass to novelist Trice Hickman on the release of her latest book ☛THE OTHER SIDE [Dafina Books]. The North Carolina’s ninth book dropped yesterday. Congrats sis!
Per Kensington Publishing:
After one too many failed relationships,
Celebrated author Ta-Nehisi Coates is back with his first work of fiction ☛THE WATER DANCER [pub: One World]. It’s highly anticipated. It’s an Oprah pick. And I’m sure it’s a New York Times bestseller out the gate. While I’m not the biggest fan of his very important non-fiction,
Thanks to a tweet from bestselling author Terry McMillan, we got the head’s up that her next novel ☛IT’S NOT ALL DOWNHILL FROM HERE [pub: Ballantine Books] drops March 31, 2020. Now I’ve gotta finish her last release ☛I ALMOST FORGOT ABOUT YOU before next April!
National Book Award winner, Jacqueline Woodson is back with another must-read short in pages, yet long in story with ☛RED AT THE BONE [pub: Riverhead Books]. Woodson’s poignant ☛ANOTHER BROOKLYN clocked in at 192 pages and her latest is just a few over 200.
Microphone fiend and celebrated rapper Rakim’s ☛SWEAT THE TECHNIQUE: REVELATIONS ON CREATIVITY FROM THE LYRICAL GENIUS [pub: Amistad] drops on September 24th. This must-read is co-written with my fellow Source magazine alum, the illustrious Bakari Kitwana. Follow the journalist and activist on Instagram @rap.sessions.official and Twitter @thereakbakari.
