The Women Headlining Jay-Z’s New Random House Imprint Roc Lit 101 Hip-hop mogul Jay-Z’s Roc Nation and publisher Random House have joined forces to create Roc Lit 101, a one-of-a-kind imprint Read More
‘Big Girl, Small Town’ Debut Adds Dark Humor to Mundane Life *Received an advance reading copy of the book for the blog tour* One of the last much-publicized debuts of 2020 Read More
How Moments of Racial Tension Are Shaping YA Literature Six well-known Black female authors with best-selling credentials came together to announce their joint project of a young adult novel Read More
Book Review: ‘Grown’ by Tiffany D. Jackson Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson My rating: 5 of 5 stars Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson rips a page from Read More
‘Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’ Stars Karyn Parsons and Daphne Maxwell Reid Talk Writing Life The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air co-stars Karyn Parsons and Daphne Maxwell Reid spent Saturday talking about their literary ventures at Read More
Gabrielle Union Adds ‘Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls’ to #BookToTV Roster Actress and producer Gabrielle Union will be giving Anissa Gray’s debut novel The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls Read More
Rachel True Shares Her Tarot Journey in New Guidebook and Memoir Rachel True, the unforgettable star of teen witch cult classic The Craft and weed cult classic Half Baked, has released Read More
How Sister Souljah’s ‘The Coldest Winter Ever’ Got Yandy Smith Her Break in Hip-Hop Original Love & Hip Hop: New York cast member Yandy Smith-Harris says the Sister Souljah classic The Coldest Winter Ever Read More
Gold House Book Club Plans to Explore Works by Asian Writers A nonprofit collective of Asian cultural leaders has launched a book club to study works exploring the Asian identity. Los Read More
Author Couple Nicola and David Yoon Announce Forthcoming Imprint The Sun Is Also a Star and Everything, Everything best-selling author Nicola Yoon will launch an imprint with her novelist Read More
Book Review: ‘The Black Kids’ by Christina Hammonds Reed The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed My rating: 3 of 5 stars The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed Read More
Renée Watson’s YA Novel ‘Piecing Me Together’ Gets Film Treatment An award-winning young adult novel by Renée Watson has received the green light for a film adaptation. Variety reports the Read More
‘Paper Gods’ Author Goldie Taylor Shares Inspiring Words After Book Picked Up for TV The Daily Beast editor-at-large Goldie Taylor will have her 2018 best-selling sexy thriller Paper Gods turned into a series produced Read More
Two Books at a Time: August 2020 Celebrity Book Club Picks More book clubs are selecting a second book for the month as some continue their promise of reading works by Read More
Teen Magazine Posts Tweet Tagging Wrong Black YA Author A magazine for teen girls mistakenly confused two Black young adult authors in a tweet that took six hours to Read More
‘The Claudia Kishi Club’ Shows Love to Beloved ‘Baby-sitters Club’ Member Asian American creatives describe how Claudia Kishi of The Baby-sitters Club series defined their upbringings in the 1990s. The companion Read More
Beach Reads, Memoirs Dominate the Summer: July 2020 Celebrity Book Club Picks With the impact of the anti-Black racism protests last month, some of the celebrity-founded book clubs kept the focus on Read More
‘The Vanishing Half’ Highlights Racial Passing Along with Previous Well-Known Novels Perched on The New York Times Best Sellers list for the past four weeks with an HBO miniseries in the Read More
Halsey’s Poems May Dive Deeper into Her Biracial Identity Grammy-nominated singer and songwriter Halsey announced she will have a poetry book come out later this year called I Would Read More
Literary Agents Who Accused Another of Racist Act Start Legal Defense Fund Days after George Floyd was killed by police in Minneapolis, the city exploded into protests. An argument on whether or Read More