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Entertainment, It’s Lit

Our Favorite Audiobooks Narrated by Black Voices

Trevor Noah’s award-winning memoir and a classic Walter Mosley crime novel are on our list of books we love to listen to.

By

Angela Johnson

Published

August 12, 2023
Entertainment, It’s Lit

Books That Should Be On Your Reading List This Pride Month

We’re celebrating the amazing Black authors who have given a voice to the LGBTQ community

By

Angela Johnson

Published

June 2, 2023
Culture

28 Days of Literary Blackness With VSB | Day 19: We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. by Samantha Irby

Publisher Synopsis: Sometimes you just have to laugh, even when life is a dumpster fire. With We Are Never Meeting in Real Life., “bitches gotta eat” blogger and comedian Samantha Irby turns the serio-comic essay into an art form. Whether talking about how her difficult childhood has led to a problem in making “adult” budgets,…

By

Panama Jackson

Published

February 19, 2019
Culture

Michael Arceneaux's Debut Book, I Can't Date Jesus is For Those Who Unapologetically Bop…With Chicken Wings

“I just want to be in Miss Tina’s book club,” Michael Arceneaux says in a matter-of-fact way as he’s chatting about life, love and all things Beyoncé when he bopped his way to The Root’s office for an interview. Writer, Houstonian, practicing homosexual, Beyoncé life partner and now, author, Michael Arceneaux just dropped his debut…

By

Danielle Young

Published

July 24, 2018
Very Smart Brothas

i am not good in bed

***Editor’s note: VSB has partnered with Twitter book club #NRBR to regularly feature new authors. Hitting lead-off will be VSB Senior Writer Samantha Irby, whose collection of essays — Meaty — will be discussed by the club tonight at 9pm. If you want to join the discussion, look for the hashtag #NRBR.*** I AM NOT…

By

Samantha Irby

Published

June 17, 2014