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Tag Archives: Books
HW Shop: Cyber Monday Deals Week On Amazon
Posted in Books, Harlem, HW Shop
Tagged Books, cuber monday, deals week, HW Shop, Learn more
HW Radio Pod and the Harlem Writers Guild Celebrate the Harlem Book Fair
Enjoy this HW Radio Pod show with host Danny Tisdale as he speaks to authors Dave Scott, Diane Richardson and Judy Andrew members of the 60 year old Harlem Writers Guild, they read excerpts from their books and celebrate the Harlem Book Fair today from 11 – 6 pm on West 135th Street from Malcolm X Boulevard to Frederick Douglass Boulevard in Harlem.
Listen to the HW Radio Pod archives on itunes.
Posted in Books, Harlem, writer, Writing
Tagged Books, Dave Scott, Diane Richardson, Harlem, Harlem Book Fair, Harlem Writers Guild, harlem writing, HW Radio Podcast, Judy Andrew, writing
HW Pick: “The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry” By Rita Dove
The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry is a selection of poets and poems to represent a century of poetry, especially the riotous twentieth century in America, is a massive undertaking fraught with peril and complication. Poet Rita Dove-a Pulitzer Prize- winning former U.S. poet laureate, professor, and presidential scholar- embarked on what became a consuming four-year odyssey. Continue reading
MEETUP Pick: “Purple Hibiscus” Uptown Girl’s Harlem Book Club
Join the Uptown Harlem Book Club Meetup for their discussion of “Purple Hibiscus“. It’s a first person narrator Kambili Achike is a 15 year old Nigeria girl growing up in sheltered privilege in a country ravaged by political strife and personal struggle. She and her brother, Jaja, and their quiet mother, who speaks “the way a bird eats, in small amounts,” live this life of luxury because Kambili’s father is a wealthy man who owns factories, publishes a politically outspoken newspaper and outwardly leads the moral, humble life of a faithful Catholic. Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged Africa Kine, Books, Kambili Achike, Meetup, Purple Hibiscus, Uptown Harlem Book Club Meetup
Bite Marks By Terence Taylor
The following is an excerpt from a new book by Terence Taylor
Rahman developed a fever that night, one that couldn’t be quenched. He felt as if he would die, and did, but felt himself wake again before dawn, ravenous. Rahman smelled food all around him, intoxicating, until he realized it was the scent of living blood in the soldiers. Understanding didn’t stop him. He lost control of his rational mind to hunger. Blood was all that could slake his bottomless thirst and he took it, swept through the camp as Dahia’s avenger, wiped out the entire battalion on his first feeding as they fought back in vain. Continue reading
This Week at Hue-Man
Books
Hue-Man has a number of book events coming up this week.
Hue-Man Bookstore
2319 Frederick Douglass Boulevard
New York City, NY 10027
(212) 665-7400 Continue reading
Janee’s Summer Reads
Books
Long is the Way and Hard: 100 year anniversary of the NAACP edited by Kevern Verney & Lee Sartain, and Earl M. Maltz’s Slavery and the Supreme Court are must-reads for those long summer’s nights for their display of history, that is aligned with Harlem residents’ past and how they depict influence into Harlem’s present. Read Long is the Way and Hard:100 year Anniversary of the NAACP for July and Slavery and the Supreme Court for August and add some history to your Harlem Summer.
Tagged Books, Earl M. Maltz, Janee's Canon, Kevern Verney, Lee Sartain, naacp, Supreme Court
HW Pick: Foxy: My Life in Three Acts
Books
As the queen of the 1970s blaxploitation movies, Grier stands assured that her as-told-to autobiography will be welcomed by film-studies collections high and low. Iconic for her roles in such gems of the genre as Coffy and Foxy Brown, Grier has also appeared in mainstream films, the likes of Fort Apache the Bronx and Mars Attacks. Her blaxploitation efforts were made on shoestring budgets without much time for rehearsal or nuance, but when given a much meatier role—the title character in Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown Continue reading
Tagged Books, foxy, hw pick, My Life in Three Acts, pam grier
Is Ghostwriting Right for You?
Books
By Dr. Maxine Thompson
Recently I was interviewed on an Internet radio show regarding my work as a ghostwriter.
Like most serendipitous events in my second career, I accidentally stumbled upon ghostwriting. I had just left my job as a social worker and I had no idea how I would survive financially. But I spiritually knew that the season for making home calls, handling court reports, emergencies, etc. was dead, so I was forced to make a change.
Being as I had retired early, I had to wait four years before I was eligible for any type of retirement benefits, and I had to come up with something fast. What could I do? Continue reading
Do Not Pass
Books
A Literary Whiteness Protection Program
Essay By Toure for the NYTimes
This may come as a shock to you, especially if you look at whiteness as a boon and blackness as a burden, but I have never once wished to be white. If a fairy godfather came to me and said I could switch races, I’d open the window and make him use it. Continue reading
