Keep me posted on the latest book releases, signings, conferences and conversations.
Debut author Mateo Askaripour‘s “raw and intimate” novel ☛BLACK BUCK [pub: Houghton Mifflin] releases today. If you’re thinking, “Wait. Isn’t ‘Black Buck’ offensive?” Yup. And it’s meant to be so. Not to mention the main character works at Starbucks, plus there’s the almighty Black dollar—all of which contribute to the provocative title.
Yesterday, writer Miles Marshall Lewis revealed the cover of his third book ☛PROMISE THAT YOU WILL SING ABOUT ME: THE POWER AND POETRY OF KENDRICK LAMAR [pub: St. Martin’s Press] on Twitter. The Grammy Award-winning rapper won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in music for his album DAMN.
Happy Book Birthday Mr. President! 🥳 Our Forever President Barack Obama just released the “first volume of his presidential memoirs” ☛A PROMISED LAND [pub: Crown] today. How awesome that this memoir by the first Black president of the United States dropped less than two weeks after the first Black woman,
Let me get this bourbon, honey and lemon together for this soothing hot toddy I’m pairing with HBO’s adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ New York Times bestseller ☛BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME [pub: One World] airing and streaming (HBO Max) this Saturday,
New pages-to-screen alert! Oprah Winfrey and Brad Pitt are teaming up to adapt Ta-Nehisi Coates’ novel ☛THE WATER DANCER [pub: One World] into a film. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news yesterday. The Water Dancer was Oprah’s first selection for her Apple book club.
ICYMI author and film director, Matthew A. Cherry announced on Twitter earlier this week that Blue Ivy Carter, daughter of Beyoncé Knowles Carter and Shawn Jay-Z Carter, is narrating the audiobook version of his children’s book and Oscar Award-winning film short ☛HAIR LOVE [pub: Kokila].
Scrolling through Instagram I stumbled upon one of Well Read Black Girl’s Live sessions—An Editorial Vision featuring Rakia Clark of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Nicole Counts of One World Books. Full disclosure: Rakia was the acquisition editor for my first novel ☛THE CHEATING CURVE [pub: Dafina/Kensington],
Violence was what this country was built on, but it could not be the way it survived.
Long time novelist Donna Hill’s latest book ☛CONFESSIONS IN B-FLAT [pub: Sideways/Entangled Publishing] is a beautiful and enjoyable Black Love story that sparks on a New York City-bound Greyhound bus in the tumultuous year of 1963,
Last week actress Phylicia Rashad posted a photo of herself in a recording studio narrating wife and husband, Lyn Sisson-Talbert and David E. Talbert’s holiday children’s book ☛JINGLE JANGLE: THE INVENTION OF JERONICUS JANGLE [pub: Razorbill] based on David E. Talbert’s Netflix movie Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey airing November 13th.
Let’s raise our forks and knives to Red Rooster Harlem‘s owner/chef Marcus Samuelsson and James Beard Award-winning writer Osayi Endolyn in celebration of their cookbook ☛THE RISE: BLACK COOKS AND THE SOUL OF AMERICAN FOOD [pub: Voracious] released this past Tuesday,
