My literary crush 📚❤️ James McBride releases his seventh book ☛DEACON KING KONG [pub: Riverhead Books] today and I can’t wait to hear the National Book Award-winning author read from his latest novel at Greenlight Bookstore this evening.
Africaville by Jeffrey Colvin
Fans of historical literature are bound to enjoy ☛AFRICAVILLE [pub: Amistad] by Jeffrey Colvin. I did. Though admittedly not always my favorite genre, Colvin’s fictional Black settlement of Africaville in Halifax, Nova Scotia lead me on a pleasure quest to learn more about the actual close-knit Black community of Africville in Canada.
The Black Book Reissued – Foreword And Preface By Toni Morrison. NYC Memorial November 21st
I am so pleased the book is alive again. I still think there is no other work that tells and visualizes a story of such misery with seriousness, humor, grace and triumph.
—Toni Morrison
Adding the reissue of ☛THE BLACK BOOK with the foreword and preface by Toni Morrison and edited by Middleton A.
Whoopi Goldberg’s The Unqualified Hostess Book Tour
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,
Us Against Alzheimer’s Edited By Marita Golden
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.
Sweat The Technique By Rakim With Bakari Kitwana
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.
