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Books in the Hood
By Emily Brady in Books, Featured Friday, May. 8 2009
When LaVerne Harris decided to open a bookstore in the South Bronx two years ago, she knew she it wasn't going to be easy. The area is known for a lot of different things -- urban blight, crime, poverty -- and a healthy book culture wasn't one of them.
But Harris, a 61-year-old primary school teacher who grew up on Simpson Street, was walking with some friends when she wondered aloud what it would take to put a bookstore in among the liquor stores, Laundromats, and take-out places.


Hip-Hop Lit Is Hot
February 11, 2008 by Kara Gebhart Uhl
Once limited to street-corner sales, hip-hop lit now can be found in major bookstores—and mainstream publishers are taking note.

From the Streets to the Libraries
Yolanda Degraff, a part-time employee, arranged books in the urban fiction area of the public library in Far Rockaway, Queens.

Gossip Girls and Ghetto Girls
Why are so many librarians—advocates of the uncensored right to read anything on all points of view—panic-stricken over teens reading street lit? As Amy Patee wrote in the July 2008 issue of School Library Journal, “There’s no getting around it: urban fiction forces many of us out of our comfort zones...

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Joey Pinkney

5 Minutes, 5 Questions With... Oneal Walters, author of The Age Begins



If you haven't had a chance to check out my book review of Oneal Walter's The Age Begins, you can find it in the archives of JoeyPinkney.com.

Oneal Walters goes past being a poet that trumpets fluffy ideas of abstract concepts. Instead, The Age Begins is a selection of po… Continue

Posted by Joey Pinkney on November 8, 2009 at 10:45am

Shaleen K Singh

The Minotaur: A Novel by Sunil Sharma

About the Book


The Minotaur is a chilling but familiar account of the rise and fall of a third-world despot. Riding the tidal wave of popular support, Caesar the Marxist, soon turns into a dictator and plunges his impoverished, exploited nation into a bloody civil war. Fleeing from his burning nat… Continue

Posted by Shaleen K Singh on November 7, 2009 at 2:10am

Joey Pinkney

5 Minutes, 5 Questions With... Allyson B. Campbell, author of In Good Company



Allyson B. Campbell's In Good Company is an interesting love story set in the picturesque islands of Jamaica and Trinidad. But this isn't a tourist affair. In Good company is a true Caribbean of when two lives become inseparably intertwined.

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Posted by Joey Pinkney on November 5, 2009 at 5:19pm

 
 

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