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Bayou Lights
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, April 17, 2003 - 02:45 am: | 
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Folks---
Pamela Thomas-Graham was brought up in another post and I wondered if anyone has any info on this author and her future writing plans?
Here are a couple others...
Sheneska Jackson
Trey Ellis
Maybe we can use this thread for info on authors that have dropped out of sight.
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Patti Flinn
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I wanted to track down Renee Swindle (Author of Please,Please,Please). Anyone know how to get in touch? |
Chris Hayden
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I'd like to know whatever happened to Sapphire, Paul Beatty, Junot Diaz, Gayl Jones, Xam Wilson Cartier, Nicole Breedlove, Lamont Steptoe, Ben Okri, Kevin Powell and Quincy Troupe. |
InPrint
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, April 17, 2003 - 01:23 pm: |
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Chris:
Junot got a contract to do a novel after the shorts, but it just hasn't happened. He's still writing shorts, though, look in The New Yorker. He's teaching at MIT.
Paul Beatty bombed with Tuff, publishing wise. Considering the time distance between White Boy Shuffle and Tuff, he's on pace.
Quincy Troupe is coming off a huge scandal when it was revealed that the professor had lied about graduating college, this was at some Cali school, I can't remember which.
My Where Are/Is They/It Now's:
The ever silent David Bradley. I know where he is, but damn, can we get some fiction?
John Edgar Wideman's fiction
Toni Morrison's fiction. Princeton's gain is the world's loss.
Gloria Naylor. I refuse to acknowledge Men of Brewsters Place was even published. In my reality, it was Mama Day, Bailey's Cafe, then nothing.
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Bayou Lights
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, April 17, 2003 - 04:20 pm: |
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Sapphire continues to perform her poetry, etc in and around NYC. I saw her a couple of times in the city. Renee Swindle is still in Oakland I believe and she may have a website.
Junot Diaz continues to publish short stories and he's at work on his novel There was a great interview with him where he addressed the difficulty he's faced writing his second book.
Chris--- A friend and I were just talking about Xam Wilson Cartier. She's completely dropped out of sight. I searched google and the last thing she was a part of (a panel) was in 1992.
Kevin Powell released a book last year, continues to write articles and speak on panels about hip hop and poetry. He has a big conference coming up in NYC this monthn or next.
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Thumper
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, April 17, 2003 - 04:28 pm: |
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Hello All,
Good Thread.
Chris: I jsut got an email about Kevin Powell's upcoming book. When I get home and find the email, I will post the information.
InPrint: I'm sad to hear that Tuff wasn't a big seller. I loved it. Beatty is an incredible author, one of my favorites. I'll cross my finger for his next novel. Beatty is a talent that shouldn't be ignored.
Allow me to add a name to the "where are they" list: Jeffrey Renard Allen. His Rails Under My Back was off the HOOK! I also wonder where Lionel Newton, author of Getting Right With God and Things To Be Lost. An incredible talent. |
Anonymous
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What ever happened to Kesho Yvonne Scott (The Habit of surviving & Tight Spaces) as well as Cherry Muhanji (Tight Spaces and Her) if you guys have never read any of the aforementioned titles - please do! |
InPrint
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, April 18, 2003 - 10:23 am: |
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Thump-
I had dinner with Jeff Allen a couple weeks back, he's busy, got a book of shorts and another of essays on the verge. He's also 50 pages into a novel.
What's Kevin Powell working on?
Also:
Expect even MORE books from Walter Mosely, including a more serious literary piece along the lines of R.L.'s Dream, and a follow up to Race Matters from Cornel West, to be sold to publishers after both men's divorces go through.
Colson Whitehead has a book of essays, that should be done soon.
Zadie Smith is up at Harvard- as a student, insisting to everyone that she's done fiction altogether.
Danzy Senna's had trouble getting her second novel published, I think she's abandoning that to work on an entirely new one.
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Thumper
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, April 18, 2003 - 04:36 pm: |
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Hello InPrint,
Thanks for the update on Allen. I can't wait. I found the email on Kevin Powell. Here it is:
WHO's GONNA TAKE THE WEIGHT: Manhood, Race, and Power in America
by Kevin Powell
Crown/Random House, August 19, 2003
$12.95 (paperback original)
172 pages
ABOUT the book....
WHO's GONNA TAKE THE WEIGHT: Manhood, Race, and Power in America is a
passionate plea for exploration, discovery, and change: of ourselves, of
America, and of the world. Coming in the aftermath of the September 11th
tragedy and war and uncertainty everywhere, WHO's GONNA TAKE THE WEIGHT is a
series of sermons on the meaning of manhood in America, violence, racism,
gender oppression, classism, pop culture, hiphop music, celebrity, the Civil
Rights Movement, power (who has it and who does not?), and what this nation
has come to be since the monumental upheavals of the 1960s. And where it
might be headed if we are not careful....
Kevin Powell is a lecturer, activist, poet, journalist, and author of five
previous books.
His work has been published in Vibe, Essence, Ms., The Washington Post,
Newsweek, Rolling Stone, and elsewhere. Powell has been hailed as one of the
most important voices of his generation, and for his keen analytical approach
and a crisp and accesible style as a social commentator, cultural critic,
political activist, public speaker, and community leader. His conclusions are
derived from the hard-won wisdom of his own experiences and the observations
he's made on his travels around America and the world.
WHO's GONNA TAKE THE WEIGHT features three mind-jolting essays: In "The
Break-down" Powell revisits the dark, suicidal days of his life after being
fired from Vibe magazine in 1996. What begins as a critical self-reflection
on what led to his personal demise expands into scorching candor as Powell
tears apart the notions of integration and multiculturalism, celebrity and
success, and power in America.
In "Confessions Of A Recovering Misogynist" Powell explores how manhood is
constructed in this country, through the lens of his own personal saga, from
his tumultuous relationship with his mother and other women, to a recognition
that manhood based on domination and violence is a recipe for destruction, of
women, and of men.
And in the final essay, "What Is A Man?" Powell presents a Herculean
meditation on the life and times of the late Tupac Shakur, on Black fathers
and Black sons (the Civil Rights generation and the hiphop generation), on
Black leadership, on
the wins and losses of the Civil Rights era, and on the twisted and tragic
Black male-White male relationship in America, from slavery to Eminem.
Anguished, funny, sad, honest, and full of hope and love, WHO's GONNA TAKE
THE WEIGHT reveals both astonishing clarity of vision and an unsettling
emotional immediacy. Written 100 years after W.E.B. DuBois published the
historic THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK and 40 years after James Baldwin penned the
classic THE FIRE NEXT TIME, Kevin Powell's WHO'S GONNA TAKE THE WEIGHT bears
witness to the burning issues that have accompanied us on our journey into
the 21st century.
PRAISE for Kevin Powell....
"(Kevin Powell)...is a mighty wind of fresh air. His pitiless
self-examination-and his equally honest exploration of the racial, sexual,
cultural, and class faultlines that thread our psychic and social
landscape-is not only brave but necessary if our nation is to survive."
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities,
University of Pennsylvania
"Kevin Powell is pushing to bring, as he has so brilliantly done before, the
voices of his generation: the concerns, the cares, the fears, and the
fearlessness."
NIKKI GIOVANNI, Internationally acclaimed poet
On or after August 19, 2003 you can purchase WHO's GONNA TAKE THE WEIGHT at
www.amazon.com or www.barnesandnoble.com, or at a bookstore near you.
That sounds interesting. I may have to give it a glance over.
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cms217
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Pamela Thomas-Graham is the President and Ceo of CNBC so she might not have a lot of time to write books theses days. |
Sis E
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2003 - 08:17 am: |
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Greetings, Brothers and Sisters,
Sis E here. For the last several weeks I've been trying to find author Brenda Wilkinson. Contacting her publishers is a last resort, but I guess I'll have to go there. Brenda wrote Ludell and Willie and Ludell and the New York Time and several other young adult books. Her current ones are Under the Baobob Tree: Children of Africa; and Black Intellectual Thought, a collection of biographical profiles.
I sure would like to get in contact with her. |
yasmin
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Does anyone know where Dianne McKinney Whetstone is? It's been several years since Blues Dancing; I hope she plans to write more novels in the future. |
yasmin
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Yes InPrint what ever happened to Gloria Naylor! I LOVED Mama Day that book is awesome and one that you can talk about for days and still come up with something new to discuss. I would love to discuss that book in a group setting...hint...hint...Thumper/Troy can that be a future group read. 
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Kola
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One of my idols remains Gloria Naylor. I would kill to speak with her in person.
Everything she wrote was astounding. Not just Mama Day--but Linden Hills, Brewster's Place, Bailey's Cafe.
TOP NOTCH writer and a true voice.
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