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Reading List: The Music Edition
New Lena Horne biography and reissue of Dizzy Gillespie's autobiography. This installment focuses on the marriage between literature and music.
On Michael Jackson
What books about the King of Pop can help us sift through his life?
Let's Get It On: Women, Sex, and Fantasy
Do we talk enough about the sexual needs of women? Author Jill Nelson doesn't think so. She discusses this and her new book "Let's Get It On."
Will You Read Books By Obama's Kin? And Other Lit-Related Questions
Will you read a book by Obama's mother, sister, brother, or brother-in-law? Are authors underpaid? More questions from Books on the Root.
Reading List: The Daddy Edition
Dads read too. Check out some gift ideas for the fathers in your life.
The Clashing of Black Public Intellectuals, Nothing New There
Black public intellectuals are clashing. New book shows that Harlem radical Hubert Harrison had been there and done that.
The Obamas Have a Real Marriage?
New book, "Renegade," talks about strains in the Obamas' marriage. So what?
The Itchyfooted Melvin Van Peebles
The writer and filmmaker talks about his new graphic novel and film project, Confessions of a Ex-Doofus-Itchyfooted Mutha.
