Keep me posted on the latest book releases, signings, conferences and conversations.
Dapper Dan née Daniel R. Ray is releasing his memoir ☛DAPPER DAN MADE IN HARLEM [pub: Random House] on July 9th. Fellow fashion legend, André Leon Talley’s blurb alone convinced me to add it to my #tbr list.
What James Baldwin is to American literature,
The rapper and now author Nas aka Nasir Jones posted the cover of his first children’s book ☛I KNOW I CAN on Instagram today. In the post the king from Queens also announced the launch of MAJR, an online children’s store and a division of the media and entertainment company Mass Appeal.
Shaking a tambourine in celebration of Elaine Welteroth’s inspirational ☛MORE THAN ENOUGH: CLAIMING SPACE FOR WHO YOU ARE (NO MATTER WHAT THEY SAY) [pub: Viking] dropping today. Just watched the Project Runway judge on Good Morning America crediting her mother as “the shero of this story.”
Kalisha Buckhanon’s fourth novel, ☛SPEAKING OF SUMMER [pub: Counterpoint Press] is showing up on everyone’s to-be-read list, including mine. Fellow author Sandra Jackson-Opoku asks, “Who cares about the disappearance of Summer—a beautiful, broken Black woman? No one but her twin sister, Autumn. Yet things are not always as they appear in this absorbing drama that is equal parts women’s fiction and suspense thriller.
Happy Book Birthday to De’Shawn Charles Winslow! His debut novel ☛IN WEST MILLS arrives in bookstores today.
Catch the East Harlem resident—by way of Elizabeth City, North Carolina—at Decatur, Georgia’s Charis Books on Thursday, June 13th at 7:30 p.m.
Literature darling Nicole Dennis-Benn returns with her highly-anticipated, sophomore novel ☛PATSY [pub: Liveright Publishing]. I’m so intrigued by stories about mothers who leave their children in pursuit of happiness, salvation or preservation. One of my favorite Nicole Kidman performances is her Oscar-winning portrayal of Laura Brown in The Hours—based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Michael Cunningham.
Been waitin’ with breath that is baited to purchase 2019 James Beard Award-winning chef Kwame Onwuachi’s ☛NOTES FROM A YOUNG BLACK CHEF with Joshua David Stein [pub: Knopf]. At risk of getting kicked out of the #BlackGirlsRock sorority, I love this memoir more than Michelle Obama’s beautifully written BECOMING.
Happiest of pub days to Candice Carty-Williams! The Jamaican Brit’s debut novel ☛QUEENIE [pub: Gallery/Scout Press] drops in the U.S. today.
Per Simon & Schuster:
Bridget Jones’s Diary meets Americanah in this disarmingly honest, boldly political, and truly inclusive novel that will speak to anyone who has gone looking for love and found something very different in its place.
Happiest of Pub days to Mitchell S. Jackson on the release of his latest book ☛SURVIVAL MATH: NOTES ON AN ALL-AMERICAN FAMILY!
Per Simon & Schuster:
In a thrillingly alive, candid new work, award-winning author Mitchell S. Jackson takes us inside the drug-ravaged neighborhood and struggling family of his youth,
Glory Edim’s anthology ☛WELL-READ BLACK GIRL: FINDING OUR STORIES, DISCOVERING OURSELVES [pub: Ballatine Books] is finally here! Avid readers around the globe pre-ordered this collection of original essays by the likes of Jesmyn Ward, Jacqueline Woodson, Tayari Jones and more.
