Books
by Janee Nesbitt
So I arrived on 135th street on a hot and humid Saturday to experience the fair of a bookie’s dream. Harlem Book Fair was by far way too much fun for me. Sadly, the amount of books I brought has made my wallet very angry at me. Max Rodriguez announced the beginning of the 11th Annual Harlem Book Fair and I was off. Here is my Top 5 of the Harlem Book Fair. Continue reading
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Malaika Adero is the Vice President and Senior Editor at Atria Books, Simon and Schuster and Executive Producer of the UpSouth International Book festival. The first book that Ms. Adero got published was The Autobiography of Miles Davis. She later brokered a multi-book deal with Spike Lee to publish his 4 books, She’s Gotta Have It, School Daze, Do the Right Thing and Mo Better Blues. Continue reading
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by Janee Nesbitt
So I’m going to admit that I have a major problem, if you ask me what era in history I would want to go back to Ancient Egypt or Shakespeare’s time would easily be one of the answers that would come out of my mouth. Even if you’re not a complete history nut like me, I believe that Rick Riordan’s The Red Pyramid will be a very informative read for you. Continue reading
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By Janee Nesbitt
Max Rodriguez is the founder and publisher of QBR The Black Book Review, a national literature review that focuses on authors in the African Diaspora. He is the founder and director of Harlem Book Fair (HBF), the nation’s largest African-American book festival and publisher of HBF publishing, who collaborates with Author Solutions, Inc., to target African-American and Latino readers and writers. With the up and coming Harlem Book Fair on July 17th, I sat down and interviewed Mr. Rodriguez on hot humid day in Harlem. Continue reading
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The only way to describe Agyei Tyehimba’s Game Over: The Rise and Transformation of a Harlem Hustler is to say that it is an eye opening experience. There is so many great things about this book that the only way to do it justice would be to write a ten page paper on it with an annotated bibliography. I can’t do that, but I will give you some insight into what makes this book one of my favorite books ever. Continue reading
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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
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