Keep me posted on the latest book releases, signings, conferences and conversations.
Happiest of Pub Days to Bernice L. McFadden! The Brooklyn native’s 10th book [under the name her mama gave her], ☛PRAISE SONG FOR THE BUTTERFLIES [pub: Akashic Books] drops today. McFadden has written five additional novels under the pseudonym Geneva Holliday.
Summer’s not quite over. Plus, so many people, including Barack Obama, go on vacay in August. Love, love, love that my Forever President shared his favorite reads. So much so, I did a lil’ digging and found out what other famous folk read this summer. Here’s a recap:
President Barack Obama’s Summer Selections:
☛EDUCATED By Tara Westover
Per Random House:
Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom.
Sanaa Lathan stars in the Netflix adaption of Trisha R. Thomas‘ ☛NAPPILY EVER AFTER (pub: Crown) debuting September 21st and I’m already planning my watch party!
I see the movie makers changed the main character’s name from Venus to Violet and can’t wait to discover what evolves and what stays from the original novel published in 2000.
Happiest of Pub Days to author Michael Arceneaux on the release of his book ☛I CAN’T DATE JESUS: LOVE, SEX, FAMILY, RACE, AND OTHER REASONS I’VE PUT MY FAITH IN BEYONCÉ [pub: Atria Books]!
Per Simon & Schuster:
In the style of New York Times bestsellers You Can’t Touch My Hair,
Fantastic news! Oprah Winfrey is making my favorite novel of 2018 ☛AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE by Tayari Jones into a movie. I cannot wait to see Celestial, Roy and Andre come to life. Here’s the thing, Oprah tweeted the announcement back in February.
I met Ntozake Shange in 2010 at the annual National Book Club Conference in Atlanta. I felt like the luckiest debut novelist. Not only had Curtis Bunn, the founder of NBCC, asked me to sit on a panel, but he’d invited me to sign and sell my first novel ☛THE CHEATING CURVE [pub: Dafina Books],
ICYMI: Actress and now author Retta is having a fantastic year! The comedian’s first book ☛SO CLOSE TO BEING THE SH*T, Y’ALL DON’T EVEN KNOW [pub: St. Martin’s Press] dropped a couple of weeks ago on May 29th. I’m only on the fourth chapter—with only 12 more,
2018 marks two decades since the release of the Grammy-Award winning classic, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. I was working at The Source magazine at the time and remember the zealous editorial debates on whether Lauryn actually deserved the elusive five-mic rating. The main issue was that she hadn’t rapped on every song.
Admission: I’m only 10 pages into Carola Lovering‘s ☛TELL ME LIES [pub: Atria Books] and have laughed out loud twice on the C train riding only three stops to one of my favorite bars in Brooklyn— shout out to Leah and Brett at The Corners.
The highly-anticipated literary novel ☛A PLACE FOR US [pub: SJP for Hogarth] by Fatima Farheen Mirza drops next Tuesday, June 12th. Thrilled beyond measure that Mirza is going on tour! First stop, NYC, baby! Click here for the deets! This is the first release from Sarah Jessica Parker’s imprint,
