Penguin Random House Announces Closure of Publisher Spiegel & Grau
Penguin Random House announced their decision to shutter publishing imprint Spiegel & Grau, best town for its…
Conversation for the Dinner Table
Whether you want to sound smart, divert a family beef, or stimulate interesting conversation, here's some lit-related…
Reading List: The Poetry Edition
Serious poetry collections continue to be birthed. The evidence:
Publishing with the Stars
Books by celebrities are nothing new. It's an easy choice for book editors. Who doesn't want to read about the…
Producing Precious
Lisa Cortés has been navigating the entertainment industry for more than twenty years. She worked at Def Jam during the…
Blacks Are Still Achieving Firsts?
Blacks Are Still Achieving Firsts?
Apparently so, with more to come. Congrats goes to Marie Ndiaye, a French-Senegalese…
Amazon and Wal-Mart Price War: Good or Bad For Book Consumers?
For the last couple of weeks, Amazon and Wal-Mart have been at war online. The megastores are heavily discounting…
Too Much Sarah Palin?
A roundup of lit-related questions.
No Coloreds Allowed? Book Party Turns Racist?
When trendy goes wrong: In August, author Teri Woods, best known for her True to the Game street fiction trilogy, threw…
I Didn't Work This Hard Just to Get Married
Is it me or do many people look at single women, who are in their thirties or beyond, as flawed pariahs? As in, there…
Reading List: The Intellectual Edition
Here are a few titles for those looking to water their intellectual growth.
Funny Man David Alan Grier
You probably know him best from his days doing whatever it took to get a laugh on In Living Color. Or maybe from his…
Do African-American Studies Departments Need to be Revamped?
A round up of lit-related questions.
Right-Wing Slinging About Obama Hits Author
Charisse Carney-Nunes writes children's books. Her books, which are published through her company Brand Nu Words,…
Bitch is the New Black, the Movie
There's a lot of debate about the movie adaptation for Ntozake Shange's "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide…
Immigrants, Caribbean Literature, & Family
I like Elizabeth Nunez. I mean this two-fold. She's sweet, yet direct, which reminds me of many of the matriarchs in my…
Not All Black Girls Know How to Eat
For years, playwright and screenwriter Stephanie Covington Armstrong battled what's considered a "white woman's…
Philly Doesn't Need No Libraries
I know that there are many people who haven't stepped foot in a library in quite some time. But I know that this…
Jay-Z the Reader
I think Jozen Cummings is onto something with his essay about why Jay-Z should rap about marriage. At a basic level,…
Reading List: The Sports Edition
Here are a few books for sports nuts, celebrity junkies, and those who enjoy a good, old inspirational story.