Mar
22
Different Kitchen Tumblr
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Posts tagged Books
Feb
4
100 Books by Black Women Everyone Must Read
Fairly obvious list but I bet most people haven’t even read more than a handful of the books on the list, if that. I read a lot and took a Black female authors course in college and I’m ashamed to admit I only had read about 9 of them. I’ve got work to do….
Oct
5
Jay-Z: Nirvana 'Stopped' Hip-Hop for a Second
Jay-Z interviewed in Pharrell Williams’ forthcoming book, Pharrell: The Places and Spaces I’ve Been.
Sep
24
“
i am forced
to disassemble
my being
to fit in your monitor
”— Saul Williams (from “, said the shotgun to the head.”)
Sep
23
“You can write in a coffee shop like you can ball on a playground. But if you wanna be in the NBA, that’s years, camps, schools, skills training, coaches, mentors, and… practice. No one wants to admit the obvious. It’s not some sh-t people can just ‘do’.”
TP BklynWrites
[via Facebook]
Sep
10
‘The Wire’ Reimagined As a Victorian Novel
‘The Wire’ As a Victorian Novel
Most people know The Wire as the HBO police drama set in Baltimore—an intricate five-season exploration of the brokenness of the inner-city’s war on drugs, education system, politics, and policing, and one of the most lauded television shows of all time. Fewer people know that it was originally a Victorian serial by the almost forgotten writer H.B. Ogden. Such, at least, was the claim of Sean Michael Robinson and Joy DeLyria, who wrote Down in the Hole: the unWired World of H.B. Ogden. They accompanied their text with drawings (by Robinson) from the original Wire, including a striking depiction of Omar Little walking down a London street as urchins scatter around him.
Read more. [Image: powerHouse Books]
Feb
12
Alternative Event for Valentine’s Day: Lawrence Hill’s ‘The Book of Negroes’ leaps from the page
Bestselling novel The Book of Negroes is going multimedia.
On Valentine’s Day, the Nathaniel Dett Chorale, led by founder and artistic director Brainerd Blyden-Taylor, is teaming up with author Lawrence Hill and jazz veteran pianist and composer Joe Sealy at Toronto’s acoustically pristine Koerner Hall. There they will present an evening of music and narrative based on Hill’s award-winning novel, a fictional work inspired by a non-fictional historical registry of the same name, and portions of Sealy’s Juno Award-winning Africville Suite.
CLICK HERE to read the rest of the article. [Toronto.com via 546inthemorning]
