Keep me posted on the latest book releases, signings, conferences and conversations.
Happiest of book birthdays to Chanelle Benz! The author’s debut novel ☛THE GONE DEAD [pub: Ecco Books] drops today. Award-winning writer Kiese Lamon‘s description alone had me immediately adding it to my summer reading list:
The southern novel will never be the same after this book.
Catch Colson Whitehead discussing his latest novel ☛THE NICKEL BOYS [pub: Doubleday] on July 20th at St. Ann’s church in Brooklyn, New York. The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist is in conversation with poet and scholar, Clint Smith. Click here to buy tickets.
Gorgeous book cover alert! Tanisha C. Ford is celebrating the release of her third book ☛DRESSED IN DREAMS: A BLACK GIRL’S LOVE LETTER TO THE POWER OF FASHION [pub: St. Martin’s Press] next Tuesday, June 25th. Catch the Africana Studies & History professor’s book signing Thursday,
Rapper/actor/activist Common dropped his memoir ☛LET LOVE HAVE THE LAST WORD [pub. Atria Books] last month. Thank God he’s still on tour. Check out the Grammy + Oscar-Award-winning artist in conversation this evening with Pastor Toure Roberts at the Potter’s House in Denver or at his book signing in Detroit at Shinola watch and jewelry store on Thursday,
I am beyond smitten with the cover of Chloé Hillard’s ☛F*CK YOUR DIET AND OTHER THINGS MY THIGHS TELL ME [pub: Gallery Books]. Full disclosure: I know Chloé. We’re both former hip-hop journos and I had no fuckin’ idea she was putting out a book.
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.
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