Glory Edim's 'Gather Me' traces the dramatic arc of her life as well as her discovery of Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison and other Black writers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2024-10-21 17:03:20 UTC ]
Works by writers like bell hooks, Damon Young and James Baldwin that will educate and make an impact on everyone. Continue reading >> [ Source: HuffPost | 2022-01-31 16:37:38 UTC ]
In her new book, Anna Malaika Tubbs shines a light on the strong women behind three influential Black leaders Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-02-12 07:00:00 UTC ]
Aged 15 I got a Christmas job at my local bookshop in Battersea so I could save to go interrailing. My parents’ bookshelves were brimming with mostly Black writers: Chinua Achebe, Buchi Emecheta, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Chester Himes, Terry McMillan, and I was surrounded by ‘consciousness’... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-30 21:25:59 UTC ]
“There isn’t much literary fiction that deals with evangelicalism. ‘Go Tell It on the Mountain,’ by James Baldwin, was the first book I read that spoke to that part of my life and it moved me so deeply to see faith rendered on the page with such care and brilliance.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-08-20 09:00:04 UTC ]
Gayl Jones published her first novel in 1975. It was hailed by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and John Updike. Then Gayl disappeared from the literary scene. Now she's releasing her first novel in 20 years. The post The Long-Awaited Return of Gayl Jones appeared first on The Millions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2020-08-05 20:30:18 UTC ]
At Random House and elsewhere, including his own Summit imprint, he worked with James Baldwin, Marilyn French, Hunter S. Thompson and many others. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-08-01 18:32:40 UTC ]
Authors aren’t allowed mutual reviews in the Book Review anymore, but in the 1950s there was a moment of kismet. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-06-26 09:44:07 UTC ]
On Monday, January 4th, Bill Kolins, a publicist at Corgi Books in London, called Robert Lantz, James Baldwin’s agent, to present him with a proposition. Corgi was set to publish the paperback version of Another Country in the United Kingdom in February, and Kolins wanted to launch the book with... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-11-12 09:50:58 UTC ]
A founder of the publishing house Stein and Day, he also worked with Dylan Thomas, Budd Schulberg and David Frost and wrote more than a dozen books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-09-25 21:47:57 UTC ]
JAMES BALDWIN HAS GROWN into the wise, guiding elder of the United States’s fractured racial conversation. His presence is at times almost palpable. Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote his memoir Between the World and Me (2015) as a letter to his teenage son, directly invoking Baldwin’s addressing his... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-07-18 12:30:39 UTC ]
When Tejan Karefa-Smart asked his uncle, James Baldwin, “When are you going to write a book about me?” he may not have expected his Uncle Jimmy to follow through so quickly. Baldwin’s only children’s book, Little Man, Little Man, which was published in 1976, chronicles a day in the life of three... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2018-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Korean film adaptation of Sarah Waters’ bestselling Fingersmith triumphed at the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) last night, along with the documentary, “I Am Not Your Negro”, based on James Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript, and James Ivory’s adaptation of 2007 novel Call Me By Your Name... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
It’s not an overstatement to say that, if you are a young writer who interrogates American race relations and white supremacy, Cornel West is the foundation upon which you stand. Alongside the likes of Kimberlé Crenshaw, Angela Davis, Toni Morrison, and, of course, James Baldwin, West’s work is... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2017-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Website for beacon of alternative journalism, which featured literary giants Norman Mailer, James Baldwin and Ezra Pound, will continue to publishThe Village Voice will cease publication of its print edition, 62 years after its culture-focused, alternative journalism first hit the streets of New... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
The late author's UK editor remembers a funny, gracious, kind, demanding, delightful and wise human being and writer of one of the world's great autobiographiesMaya Angelou was one of the world's most important writers and activists. She lived and chronicled an extraordinary life: rising from... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]