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10/21/2022
Reading Between the Lines: Race, Equity, and Book Publishing
Reading Between the Lines: Race, Equity, and Book Publishing
PEN America undertook this report to better understand why the debate over the lack of diversity in publishing has seemed to stagnate.
10/04/2022
Headed Home to the Hamburger this weekend. Looking forward to the 16th Annual Rhythms of Color Art Fest on Saturday Oct 8th @ East Village Arts 7611 1st Ave North. Find me if I don't find you. RMFT!!
09/06/2022
Sterling Lord, Premier Literary Agent, Is Dead at 102
May he soar.
The list of well-known writers he represented is long. But his success began with an unknown named Jack Kerouac and his hard-to-sell novel “On the Road.”
08/25/2022
Matejka Leads Change at Poetry
Good change
The new editor of Poetry shares his aspirations for shaping the 110-year-old magazine to reflect an expansive literary landscape.
08/10/2022
Meet Malaika Adero | Adero’s Literary Tribe LLC
Meet Malaika Adero | Adero’s Literary Tribe LLC
We had the good fortune of connecting with Malaika Adero and we've shared our conversation below. Hi Malaika, what was your thought process behind starting your own business? Adero’s Literary Tribe, LLC is a literary agency and book development studio. I pursued a business venture based on what
07/30/2022
Steady Wins the Writer's Race
Thoughts on how ideas and intentions become great writing.
Know Yourself. You'll be a better writer for it.
07/20/2022
Dana Canedy, Publisher of Simon & Schuster’s Flagship Imprint, Has Left the Job
In and out.
She was the first Black woman in the position, which she held for two years. Her hiring came amid a push for diversity in the industry.
06/24/2022
Our Tribe has a reach into all media: Sharrif Simmons!
05/26/2022
Morton L. Janklow, Agent for Best-Selling Authors, Dies at 91
Mort Janklow is one of the most gracious and respectful humans I know from three decades in book publishing. Brilliant at his work of course, I was always happy to be in his company and hear his thoughts. Love & light to his spirit, family, and communities. His publishing legacy speaks for itself.
A bold, risk-taking negotiator, he numbered among his clients Danielle Steel, Judith Krantz, three presidents and Pope John Paul II.
05/17/2022
We, the Writers? A Global Literary Congress Meets in New York.
During the PEN World Voices Festival Weekend 2022
Authors from 30 countries held an “emergency” meeting at the United Nations to address the multiple crises of the moment — and whether stories can help.
05/10/2022
Opening Night: An Evening with Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah
I'm looking forward to this evening with Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah.
Join us for Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah’s first U.S. appearance since his momentous Nobel Prize
04/19/2022
Now We're Talking: The Exceptional Life of Paul Coates
Now We're Talking: The Exceptional Life of Paul Coates
A conversation with the longtime publisher and former Black Panther whose son Ta-Nehisi just so happens to be America's most influential writer.
04/03/2022
Taint Taint Taint Literary Magazine
Taint Taint Taint Literary Magazine
Taint Taint Taint is a literary and cultural arts magazine dedicated to decolonizing the art world.
02/05/2022
Jason Epstein, Editor and Publishing Innovator, Is Dead at 93
A publishing legend transcends.
His literary and marketing instincts brought quality paperbacks to American readers and led to the creation of The New York Review of Books.
11/04/2021
New Book Provides a Different View of Vice President Kamala Harris - The Washington Informer
New Book Provides a Different View of Vice President Kamala Harris - The Washington Informer
Kamala Harris' election in 2020 forged a trail of precedents for the nation’s vice presidency: first African American, first South Asian American, first Caribbean American. That rich path is chronicled in a photographic biography to be published Nov. 16.
10/24/2021
How Literature by Black Authors Shaped One Scholar’s Life
How Literature by Black Authors Shaped One Scholar’s Life
In “Read Until You Understand,” Farah Jasmine Griffin explores how books have served as instruction manuals to guide her through difficulty and triumph.
10/18/2021
An evening with the author of Vice President Kamala Harris: Her Path to the
You're invited to celebrate with us at Hueman Bookstore: raise a glass of bubbly + djFunmi playing the music + tasty bite+ the book! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-the-author-of-vice-president-kamala-harris-her-path-to-the-tickets-166832349047
Malaika Adero takes us on a Pictorial of Kamala Harris's journey to the White House. Ticket price includes signed book, entertainment.
10/12/2021
An important read, coming to market in December.
Sometimes Farmgirls Become Revolutionaries: advocate, journalist, and press secretary Florence L. Tate's details her life as an living with clinical , and her work that led to surveillance. Out now: https://www.blackclassicbooks.com/sometimes-farmgirls-become-revolutionaries-florence-l-tate-and-jake-ann-jones/
10/05/2021
Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.
Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.
An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.
10/04/2021
‘The Beginning of the Snowball’: Supply-Chain Snarls Delay Books
Roadblocks & hurdles.
Shipping delays, printer backups and worker shortages are forcing publishers to postpone new titles and leaving booksellers in a lurch for some old ones.
09/27/2021
Review of Seasons in Hippoland
Receiving a first review of your novel is always a big moment. When the novel is as beautifully rendered as Seasons in Hippoland by Wanjiku Wa Ngugi it's an occasion to celebrate!. Congratulations.
Seasons in Hippoland: Wanjikũ Wa Ngũgĩ’s dreamlike coming-of-age novel "Seasons in Hippoland" is about the power of storytelling. Mumbi grows up in Victoriana, a country populated by freedom fighters and generals and oppressed by a succession of men in colorful...
09/01/2021
Publishers Lunch Job Board: Project Editor (#29622)
Publishers Lunch Job Board: Project Editor (#29622)
Position: Project Editor (Full Time) | Offered by: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. (New York, NY) | posted: Aug. 31, 2021
08/20/2021
The Unbearable Whiteness of Publishing, Pt. 2 | The Village Voice
The Unbearable Whiteness of Publishing, Pt. 2 | The Village Voice
“A handful of publishing houses account for a majority of the books published in the United States. In these companies, the question is not how many people of color they employ at decision-making levels, but whether they have any at all”
08/19/2021
State of African-American Literature
A friend pulled this up from the archives.
Malaika Adero talked about the state of African-American literature, as well as its history, significance, and traditions. "The State of African American Literature" was a talk at the 2014 Harlem Book Fair from the Langston Hughes Auditorium in the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Rese...
08/08/2021
Nach Waxman, Founder of a Bookstore Where Foodies Flock, Dies at 84
Nach Waxman, Founder of a Bookstore Where Foodies Flock, Dies at 84
A “kitchen anthropologist,” he created a mecca in Manhattan for chefs, writers, scholars, everyday cooks and anyone else who is, well, hungry for culinary knowledge.
07/20/2021
Social Impact Authors: How & Why Julie Merberg of Downtown Bookworks Is Helping To Change Our World
My publisher, sharing her inspiring and enlightening life story in books.
An Interview With Edward Sylvan
07/13/2021
Photos from Institute of the Black World's post
07/10/2021
Timeline Photos
The IBW Legacy Group's summer 2021 gathering picks up again July 13th with Sonia Sanchez, A.B. Spellman, Kalamu ya Salaam, Destiny O. Birdsong and Opal Moore discussingthe critical analysis of Stephen Henderson author of Understanding the New Black Poetry--the role of art and literature in service to our liberation struggle. Here I am , the excited and grateful coordinator of this program, with Sister Sonia and Michael Simanga (who will present later in the series). So, stay with us, or join us, every Tuesday evening until August 17th. Find more info on www.instituteblackworld.com
06/25/2021
When thinking people gather, productive forward movement can happen. Join us:
06/22/2021
Abdul Alkalimat: On the Institute of the Black World
Abdul Alkalimat: On the Institute of the Black World
In its September 1969 issue, Ebony magazine published this photo of me. It was taken during the April 1969 student-faculty takeover of Harkness Hall, where an Atlanta University Center board of trustees meeting was underway. As a result of this militant action, two of us were fired by Spelman Colleg...
06/18/2021
The Adichie-Emezi Fallout: A Few Thoughts
An uncomfortable breakdown of a literary relationship may be necessary for us to grapple with who we are and what we are about.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie recently responded to criticisms that have long trailed her on social media, ranging from her views on trans women to her strained relationship with some younger writers who she worked with at the Farafina Creative Writing Workshop. Since its publication on her personal webs
06/02/2021
New great news on the publishing front.
We are pleased to announce Janet Hill Talbert as the new executive editor for Nelson Books, a nonfiction imprint of Thomas Nelson.
Read more about Janet here >>> https://fal.cn/3fMAY
05/07/2021
A Novel Thriller | Wellesley Centers for Women
"Amid this on-the-job anxiety, Nella finds refuge in Malaika, her sister friend, a woman her age who always has her back. Malaika is her sounding board, her confidant, the one character that tries to help her untangle the thrilling mystery that drives the novel’s plot: Who is trying to push Nella out of Wagner—and why? Malaika is the girl every Black girl needs, but she is not the other Black girl.
Malaika is an homage to former Atria powerhouse Malaika Adero, the real-life woman who might have edited The Other Black Girl had she not left the Simon & Schuster imprint less than a decade ago. There are so few Black women in book publishing. Names like Marie Brown, Stacey Barney, Dawn Davis, Tracy Sherrod, and Linda Duggins come to mind. There are others, but only a precious few more. Harris tributes them all by naming her most keep-it-real character after the one Black woman editor who worked at the very imprint that published Harris’s book."
The Wellesley Centers for Women is a premier women- and gender-focused, social-change oriented research-and-action institute at Wellesley College. Our mission is to advance gender equality, social justice, and human wellbeing through high quality research, theory, and action programs.
04/28/2021
Photos from Nina Foxx-Clever V***n Media's post
03/11/2021
How I (Barely) Survived the Abject Failure of My Much Hyped Debut Novel
How I (Barely) Survived the Abject Failure of My Much Hyped Debut Novel
In the fall of 2000—a few months before George W. Bush was elected president and nearly a year before 9/11 irrevocably altered the world I’d grown up knowing—my first novel was released from the gr…
02/21/2021
Opinion | Your Kids Aren’t Too Old for Picture Books, and Neither Are You
Opinion | Your Kids Aren’t Too Old for Picture Books, and Neither Are You
These are the real wizards of the literary world.
02/19/2021
'Fight On' | Artist creates visual interpretations of African-American spirituals
'Fight On' | Artist creates visual interpretations of African-American spirituals
The spirituals were vital during times of slavery serving as a way to heal, gain spiritual connection, and a tool for communication.
01/10/2021
PW Launches New U.S. Book Trade Fair for May
PW Launches New U.S. Book Trade Fair for May
Publishers Weekly will launch a new American publishing trade fair. The U.S. Book Show will run virtually May 26-28 and will offer events and programming for the domestic and international publishing industry, including booksellers, librarians, publishers, and self-published authors.
12/24/2020
Merry Christmas 2020. The present is the gift. Peace & Love to you.
12/23/2020
Former NBA player Junior Bridgeman buys 'Ebony' magazine for $14M - TheGrio
Great good news.
Ulysses 'Junior' Bridgeman purchased Ebony and Jet Magazines recently in bankruptcy court for $14M and hopes to turn the brands around.
12/18/2020
Their Publishing Imprint Closed. Now They’re Bringing It Back.
Their Publishing Imprint Closed. Now They’re Bringing It Back.
In a literary landscape dominated by the biggest players, Cindy Spiegel and Julie Grau are among the executives rejecting the corporate publishing model and instead starting their own companies.
12/15/2020
Tamika Mallory’s ‘State of Emergency’ Will Be the First Book From Charlamagne Tha God’s Imprint, Black Privilege (EXCLUSIVE)
The publishing woke beat goes on.
Activist Tamika Mallory, a Time 100 honoree and co-founder of 2017’s Women’s March, will make her literary debut with “State of Emergency,” which will also be the first release from Charlamagne Tha…
12/15/2020
Roc Lit 101, New Roc Nation-Random House Company, to Publish Books by CC Sabathia, Lil U*i Vert, More
Book publishing is rocking and rolling.
Jay-Z’s Roc Nation and Random House, a division of Penguin Random House, have announced a new literary publishing partnership to be called Roc Lit 101. According to the announcement, the venture is…
11/27/2020
Picador wins four-way auction for 10 books from Kincaid | The Bookseller
Good news: Jamaica Kincaid's ten books will be republished and promoted anew.
Picador has won a four-way auction for 10 books from Jamaica Kincaid, hailed by the publisher as “one of our greatest living writers”.
10/29/2020
‘There Are Tons of Brown Faces Missing’: Publishers Step Up Diversity Efforts
The Tribe doing the Work! Go Krishan.
The push in book publishing for more authors and workers of color hasn’t abated, and companies are increasingly making lasting changes to the way they do business.
10/24/2020
Michelle Obama’s ‘Becoming’ Editor Starts Her Own Publishing Firm
Exciting to see a new book publishing business with some muscle to start.
Molly Stern, the former publisher of Crown, is starting Zando, an independent publishing company with an unusual marketing strategy.
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A publishing legend transcends.
You're invited to celebrate with us at Hueman Bookstore: raise a glass of bubbly + djFunmi playing the music + tasty bite+ the book! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-the-author-of-vice-president-kamala-harris-her-path-to-the-tickets-166832349047
An important read, coming to market in December.
Roadblocks & hurdles.
Receiving a first review of your novel is always a big moment. When the novel is as beautifully rendered as Seasons in Hippoland by Wanjiku Wa Ngugi it's an occasion to celebrate!. Congratulations.
A friend pulled this up from the archives.
My publisher, sharing her inspiring and enlightening life story in books.