Wherever President Obama goes, a photo op is sure to follow. And when that photo op happens to involve a trip to the bookstore, well, almost nothing in the world gets the publishing industry to perk up as much as that.
Our four friends from “Waiting to Exhale” are back! Almost two decades ago, best-selling author Terry McMillan introduced the world to Savannah, Bernadine, Robin and Gloria, four black women in Arizona who were trying to figure out their careers, family and waiting for the moment when they could breathe easily about their romantic lives. McMillan’s new book “Getting To Happy” picks up 15 years after our last encounter with the four friends in our head and it’s a doozy– lots of drama to giggle and fuss about over Sunday brunch.
Everyone's speculating on Oprah's next book club selection, scheduled to be announced on Sept. 17.
Exactly 10 years after the announcement of her first-ever book club pick – "The Deep End of the Ocean" by Jacquelyn Mitchard – Oprah will share with the world her next selection. On Sept. 17, live on her show, she will announce the title of the 65th book to be embraced by the Oprah Book Club.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie celebrates the enduring achievement of Harper Lee's classic novel, which was published 50 years ago
I would come, many years later, to understand why To Kill A Mockingbird is considered "an important novel", but when I first read it at 11, I was simply absorbed by the way it evoked the mysteries of childhood, of treasures discovered in trees, and games played with an exotic summer friend. I loved that the narrator was a girl with the marvellously un-girly name of Scout. I loved her unsentimental nature, her sharp tongue, her volubility, and her humour.
Former congressman shares his father’s journey and how it inspired him
The former congressman and rising political star has written about his family and his take on the future of America in “More Davids Than Goliaths.” In this excerpt, he shares the struggles his father faced running for office and how that inspired him.
The Oprah Book club has endorsed the book ‘Africa’s Best Stories-An anthology of Africa’s Best short stories.’
Africa’s best stories is a collection of the very best short stories written by Africa’s best and finest writers. Some of the writers featured in the anthology include Nobel Prize laureate, Wole Soyinka, Orange Prize winner, Chimamanda Adichie, Caine Prize finalists, Sefi Atta, Chika Unigwe, EC Osondu, and Duchess Lilian Koki among several other budding writers.
Baldwin’s newly collected essays pack as much firepower as ever
When I play reverse time travel and imagine historical figures turning up today (what would Ben Franklin say about the iPad? Or Jane Austen about Jersey Shore?, etc.), James Baldwin’s name comes to mind. The essayist and novelist spent four decades picking at the scab of American race relations. He could be incendiary, but at his best he was sly, writing with a sharply ironic sensibility that gave him one of the most distinctive voices of the early postwar years. In part because he warned that the country’s inability to solve its racial problems could bring about its downfall—“Carthage” was the specter he invoked—he was tagged, and seemed happy to be tagged, the American Jeremiah.
Tired of reading accounts of Africa through the eyes of outsiders, 14 African writers have set out to document the diversity of their content in a series of books and blogs partly inspired by the soccer World Cup.
With a new book out, Ayaan Hirsi Ali shows no sign of softening in her criticism of Islam.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali sips green tea, the porcelain cup and saucer miraculously not too heavy for the slightest of wrists, the slimmest of figures perched stork-like in a hotel lobby's armchair. When she talks, her voice is so soft that I feel my tape recorder will have to be right in front of her mouth to catch her words before they float away.
Getting parents to buy children books instead of toy guns and cars - and enticing readers in outlets like hair salons - are just two of the challenges facing Africa's publishers.
African Canadian novelists and poets discuss the complexities of the writing experience. Apart from identifying how the writers geographical and social origins have influenced their work, the questions deliberately avoid autobiography. Instead, these writers respond to the exigencies of craft, the manipulations of publishers, the criticism of readers, and the absence of a clearly identifiable market for their works.Austin Clarke, Bernadette Dyer, Althea Prince, Afua Cooper, M. NourbeSe Philip, Cecil Foster, Lawrence Hill, George Elliott Clarke, Wayde Compton, Robert Sandiford, Suzette Mayr, Claire Harris, Pamela Mordecai, and Ayanna Black.
Things started to fall apart at home when my brother, Jaja, did not go to communion and Papa flung his heavy missal across the room and broke the ?gurines on the etagere...
Ontario's African-Canadian Heritage is composed of the collected works of Professor Fred Landon, who for more than 60 years wrote about African-Canadian history. The selected ...
A glorious, groundbreaking celebration of Black sensuality--short stories, poems, essays, folk tales, and letters--ranging from the lyrical to the lascivious, from the prurient to the provocative...
Colonialism/Postcolonialism is a remarkably comprehensive yet accessible guide to the historical and theoretical dimensions of colonial and postcolonial discourses...
Called "the 21st-century daughter of Chinua Achebe" by The Washington Post, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie certainly lives up to the hype in her second novel, Half a Yellow Sun. She wowed us with this transcendent tale about war, loyalty, brutality, and love in modern Africa. While painting a searing portrait of the tragedy that took place in Biafra during the 1960s, her story finds its true heart in the intimacy of three ordinary lives buffeted by the winds of fate. Her tale is hauntingly evocative and impossible to forget.
A historical survey covering the black experience in Canada from the introduction of slavery in 1628 to the wave of Caribbean immigration in the 1950s, The Blacks in Canada: A History ...
The role of Black women in Canadian history is largely unacknowledged, supporting the assumption that Black people and racism are recent arrivals to the country...
At the end of Not a Day Goes By, the terminally bisexual John Basil Henderson declares: Im back, in full form. And Im out there. Roamin. And switching lanes...
Though education and publishing are increasingly welcoming to African-American authors, there is little attention to educating, supporting and sustaining their writing processes...
Emma Donoghue, a Dublin-born writer now based in London, Ont., is among six authors shortlisted Tuesday for the prestigious Man Booker Prize for English-language literature.
Samsung has launched the Galaxy Tab, a competitor tablet computer to Apple's hit iPad, and it is shipping with some Canadian content: the Kobo e-reading application.
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