Keep me posted on the latest book releases, signings, conferences and conversations.
Celebrated author Ta-Nehisi Coates is back with his first work of fiction ☛THE WATER DANCER [pub: One World]. It’s highly anticipated. It’s an Oprah pick. And I’m sure it’s a New York Times bestseller out the gate. While I’m not the biggest fan of his very important non-fiction,
Thanks to a tweet from bestselling author Terry McMillan, we got the head’s up that her next novel ☛IT’S NOT ALL DOWNHILL FROM HERE [pub: Ballantine Books] drops March 31, 2020. Now I’ve gotta finish her last release ☛I ALMOST FORGOT ABOUT YOU before next April!
National Book Award winner, Jacqueline Woodson is back with another must-read short in pages, yet long in story with ☛RED AT THE BONE [pub: Riverhead Books]. Woodson’s poignant ☛ANOTHER BROOKLYN clocked in at 192 pages and her latest is just a few over 200.
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.
Malcolm Gladwell’s ☛TALKING TO STRANGERS: WHAT WE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE PEOPLE WE DON’T KNOW [pub: Little, Brown and Company] drops today. Catch the author of THE TIPPING POINT and OUTLIERS in D.C. at Politics and Prose on September 11th and at New York City’s Barnes and Noble in Union Square on October 17th.
Let’s all rejoice in the release of Queer Eye’s cutie Antoni Porowski releasing ☛ANTONI IN THE KITCHEN [pub: Rux Martin] Go shawty! It’s your book birthday! Adding this one to my cookbook collection. Happy Cookin’!
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Can’t wait to catch gorgeous sisters, Maika and Maritza Moulite on tour for their novel ☛DEAR HAITI, LOVE ALAINE. Catch the first-time authors at Brooklyn’s Books Are Magic tomorrow, September 7th. Not in BK this weekend? Click here for more dates and cities.
But no matter how many say so, my sons, you are not a problem. Mothering you is not a problem. It is a gift. A vast one. A breathtaking one, beautiful. One that makes me pray for an unmercenary spirit about what I am here to do, never considering it a burden or worthy of particular praise.
Happiest of pub days Angie Cruz! The Washington Heights native’s third novel ☛DOMINICANA [pub: Flatiron Books] hits bookstores and e-readers today. I’m so looking forward to traveling from the Dominican Republic with 15-year-old Ana Cancion to New York City in 1965.
Did you catch Rick Ross on Good Morning America this morning? The Miami rapper-turned-author’s memoir ☛HURRICANES drops tomorrow. Check out his Los Angeles book signing this Friday, September 6th at 8 p.m. Doors open at 7 p.m.
