Black History Month, Or Not – Revisited
Black History Month – I can’t believe I have not upgraded this essay and list of interesting titles since 2013. Today, in our frightening political
Black History Month – I can’t believe I have not upgraded this essay and list of interesting titles since 2013. Today, in our frightening political
WELL-READ BLACK GIRL CONFERENCE As the news broke about the successful fundraising of the Well-Read Black Girl Conference and Festival to be held on September
A few months ago, Sunny posted companion musings where she and I both opined about the tempo and rhythms of Southern literature. At the time, I
BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME Between the World and Me takes the form of a letter Ta-Nehisi Coates writes to his teenage son. In a
It is February fellow-Americans, and we know, as readers, students, television programmers and booksellers, what that means: It’s Black History Month! What I’ve never understood
Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel, Americanah, perceives American racism through an entirely new lens, one I had never looked through before. My generic notions of
Washington Black – Esi Edugyan’s tale of a Barbados youth taken by an inventor/scientist to be his slave, only to find that the boy will
BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2019 It is February, the shortest month of the year. You know what that means, dear readers. It is Black History Month.
At the end of his historical biography of General Alex Dumas, The Black Count Tom Reiss cites a passage written by the General’s famous son.
When I reviewed Thatcher Robinson’s first novel, White Ginger, for “Bookin’ with Sunny,” I ended by hoping that Robinson would “write more about this intriguing
MAUD MARTHA I don’t even know when I bought Maud Martha or what it was that made me finally pull it off my shelf to read back
Robert Olmstead has given us a little literary gem in Coal Black Horse, the tale of fourteen year old Robey Childs, who has been sent
Lazaretto What does it truly mean to be black (or not) and why does it matter? Lazaretto by Diane Mckinney-Whetstone challenges these questions and more.
This one makes me so happy: Irish writer Benjamin Black’s Quirke novels (A Death in Summer) will be coming soon to your local tv or whatever
Robert Graysmith is a San Francisco writer best known for his true-crime accounts of serial killers: Zodiac, Unabomber, and Amerithrax: The Hunt for the Anthrax
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