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.
Promise That You Will Sing About Me: The Power and Poetry of Kendrick Lamar by Miles Marshall Lewis
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 President Barack Obama: A Promised Land 🥳
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,
TBR Tuesday: Punch Me Up To The Gods By Brian Broome
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],
Confessions In B-Flat By Donna Hill
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,
Phylicia Rashad Records Audiobook For David E. Talbert And Lyn Sisson-Talbert’s Jingle Jangle: The Invention of Jeronicus Jangle
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.
