Stories Collection

  1. The publication of two stellar collections of stories out this season--God's Gym: Sto...
  2. Movies have ratings, and some music CDs have stickers warning parents of "Explic...
  3. Writers Notes: Doug Smith, a veteran journalist and visiting professor in the Scripps...
  4. Other Men's Wives by Freddie Lee Johnson III One World/Ballantine, May 2005 $13.95, I...
  5. Death Of a Fat Man by Hank Sanders Imani Way Enterprises, May 2004 $24, ISBN 0-975-27...
  6. Pack your bags and hit the road--or the high seas. Readers are gathering in hotels, i...
  7. In Motion: The African-American Relocation Experience by Howard Dodson and Sylvain A....
  8. Gets No Love by Eric E. Pete New American Library Trade, December 2004 $12.95, ISBN 0...
  9. A month before my novel was to be published, my publicist told me she had an uncomfor...
  10. As you read this, you are probably thinking it is too late for an obituary for Johnni...
  11. A Suggested Summer Reading List from the Coretta Scott King Book Award Committee of t...
  12. Books by Malcolm Gladwell The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Differe...
  13. If It Ain't One Thing by Cheryl Robinson New American Library, February 2005 $13.95, ...
  14. * Finding Martha's Vineyard: African Americans at Home on an Island by Jill Nelson, D...
  15. Our summer issue is always one of our favorites. And if you are reading this, chances...
  16. With so many books on the shelves, it is difficult for a spanking-new writer to break...
  17. Dreams have a funny way of simply just "sitting there" unless the dreamer g...
  18. If you prefer traveling vicariously, you might want to follow along with the protagon...
  19. God Helps Those ... by Alan Cramer Bronx Village Publishers, January 2005 $14, ISBN 0...
  20. PROFILE What: National Book Club Conference 2005 Where: Intercontinental Buckhead...
  21. The Harlem Book Fair will kick off on Friday, July 22, with the 2005 Wheatley Book Aw...
  22. Summer is the perfect time for children to catch up on their reading. These ideas for...
  23. * THE INTERRUPTION OF EVERYTHING by Terry McMillan Viking, July 2005 $25.95, ISBN 0-6...
  24. Walter Mosley, one of the best-known and best-selling authors for fiction and nonfict...
  25. Friday, August 5 9-10:30 A.M. Conference Opening Breakfast with J. California Coope...
  26. Last year, Andrea Levy saw her luck begin to turn after publishing her fourth novel, ...
  27. It's summertime, the weather's warm, and you're hungry. You know what you need to do:...
  28. I am a writer-in-residence at the Paden Institute and Retreat for Writers of Color in...
  29. Walter Mosley accepted the 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award of the 21st Annual Celebra...
  30. Don't look now, but things have been disappearing from library buildings at a rapid p...
  31. Finding Martha's Vineyard: African Americans at Home on an Island by Jill Nelson Doub...
  32. To celebrate the publication of J. California Cooper's Some People, Some Other Place ...
  33. Don't Know Much About Rosa Parks by Kenneth C. Davis Illustrated by Sergio Martinez H...
  34. The Best-Kept Secret by Kimberla Lawson Roby William Morrow, February 2005 $23.95, IS...
  35. Basquiat Edited by Marc Mayer With essays by Fred Hoffman, Kellie Jones, Marc Mayer a...
  36. Tina McElroy Ansa, novelist and founder of the Sea Islands Writers' Retreats, won the...
  37. Trinette Blackwell is a card-carrying patron of the Prince George's County, Maryland,...
  38. Black and Mormon Edited by Newell G. Bringhurst and Darron T. Smith University of Ill...
  39. Before the National Book Awards were awarded in November 2004, the media was filled w...
  40. Oscar's Half Birthday by Bob Graham Candlewick Press, May 2005 $16.99, ISBN 0-763-626...
  41. Afterburn: A Novel by Zane Atria Books, January 2005 $24.95, ISBN 0-743-47097-4 &qu...
  42. Hardcover Fiction 1. Some People, Some Other Place J. California Cooper (3) ($24....
  43. In one of his last interviews, Ossie Davis told BIBR interviewer Sharon D. Johnson: &...
  44. Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker won the first Story Prize for outstanding short fi...
  45. Just eight days before Ossie Davis passed away on February 4, 2005, Davis and Ruby De...
  46. Mama, mommy, m'dear and mother. No matter her name, the role of mother is often a piv...
  47. Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood by Donald Bogle Ballanti...
  48. The Patchwork Path: A Quilt Map to Freedom by Bettye Stroud Illustrated by Erin Susan...
  49. Gem of the Ocean by August Wilson was on Broadway in New York City for approximately ...
  50. It ain't necessarily so" that memorable line from the opera Porgy and Bess shoul...
  51. Superlatives--best, greatest, most--seem inadequate to describe who Ossie Davis was a...
  52. Andrea Levy is the first writer to win both Britain's prestigious Whibred Award and t...
  53. As a young boy growing up in the 1950s, I remember and was influenced and even confus...
  54. Whether from divergent cultures or disparate tribes, African men and women shared an ...
  55. * Nelson Mandela: In His Own Words With a Foreword by Bill Clinton and U.N. Secretary...
  56. Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam by Walter Dean Myers Collages by Ann Grifalcon...
  57. "In including some of the things that follow, I have had to agonize, balancing m...
  58. All day, I watched the crowd grow bigger (and livelier) and the line longer until it ...
  59. I just wanted to take the time to commend you on your new Web site. The layout is mag...
  60. Diane McKinney-Whetstone (Leaving Cecil Street, William Morrow, March 2004) won the 2...
  61. Langston Hughes often mentioned how he would prowl the neighborhood bars of Harlem lo...
  62. The Nia Guide for Black Women: Achieving Career Success on Your Terms Edited by Shery...
  63. * Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom From the 1700s Thr...
  64. * Damned If I Do by Percival Everett Graywolf Press, November 2004 $15, ISBN 1-555-97...
  65. If you are planning a family reunion and don't know much about your family history, y...
  66. I am a library branch manager in New Orleans and an avid reader of BIBR. It is inform...
  67. Ma Dear's Old Green House written by Denise Lewis Patrick and illustrated by Sonia Ly...
  68. The Beat of My Drum: An Autobiography by Babatunde Olatunji with Robert T. Atkinson T...
  69. The Real Lives of Strong Black Women: Transcending Myths Reclaiming Joy by Toby Thomp...
  70. Postcolonial Melancholia by Paul Gilroy Columbia University Press, February 2005 $24....
  71. * Johnny Mad Dog by Emmanuel Dongala (translated from French by Maria Louise Ascher) ...
  72. As late spring and summer holidays loom, many African Americans will be planning and ...
  73. I am enjoying the March April 2005 special poetry issue. I was particularly intereste...
  74. "Audie" finalists include: The Man in My Basement by Walter Mosley, read by...
  75. You Ain't Got No Easter Clothes: A Memoir by Laura Love Hyperion, September 2004 $23....
  76. Space Between the Stars: My Journey to an Open Heart by Deborah Santana One World/Bal...
  77. Interesting Times: Essays and Nonfiction by Michael Ross AuthorHouse September 2004 $...
  78. The Executioner's Game by Gary Hardwick William Morrow, January 2005 $24.95, ISBN 0-0...
  79. Before my latest book Zero Debt: The Ultimate Guide to Financial Freedom (Advantage W...
  80. Thank you for continuing to address the AIDS epidemic ("Facing Up to AIDS,"...
  81. Globe-trotting Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who has been mesmerizing world di...
  82. Another Way Home: The Tangled Roots of Race in One Chicago Family by Ronne Hartfield ...
  83. There is something to be said about the author who finds his or her own means to get ...
  84. Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya by Jamaica Kincaid National Geographic Books, J...
  85. Expired by Erie Rhodes Dafina Books, February 2005 $14, ISBN-0-758-20870-7 Evie Rho...
  86. It's probable that when Arturo Schomburg bought his first book, he had no real design...
  87. Deborah Willis, photographer, winner of the MacArthur "genius" Award and pr...
  88. CHICAGO, IL Kalisha Buckhanon, author or Upstate, will be reading from and discussi...
  89. Dear Senator: A Memoir of the Daughter of Strom Thurmond by Essie Mae Washington-Will...
  90. Africana Arts and Letters: An A-to-Z Reference of Writers, Musicians and Artists of t...
  91. The Promise: How One Woman Made Good on Her Extraordinary Pact to Send a Classroom of...
  92. Gimme an O! by Kayla Perrin Avon Trade, January 2005 $12.95, ISBN 0-060-58709-1 Kay...
  93. A Bad Woman Feeling Good: Blues and the Women Who Sang Them by Buzzy Jackson W.W. Nor...
  94. Debates about the legal issues facing the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (L...
  95. Changing of the Guard: Walter Zacharius, founder of Kensington Publishing Corp., rece...
  96. What: BookExpo America 2005 Where: Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. New York, NY ...
  97. Cotton Field of Dreams: A Memoir by Janis F. Kearney Writing Our World Press, Decembe...
  98. Beyond the Down Low: Sex, Lies, and Denial in Black America by Keith Boykin, Foreword...
  99. Many parents living in poverty may lack the money to supply their children with books...
  100. The Strong, Silent Type by C. Kelly Robinson New American Library, January 2005 $13.9...
  101. The Moments, the Minutes, the Hours: The Poetry of Jill Scott by Jill Scott St. Marti...
  102. Just wanted to personally thank you for giving Bro. Yao the opportunity to exercise h...
  103. While volunteering in her child's classroom, Sukari Harris noticed that many of the s...
  104. Full Moon of Sonia by Sonia Sanchez Via International Artists, Inc. December 2004 $22...
  105. Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About...
  106. Betrayal of the Trust by Leslie Esdaile Banks Dafina Books, November 2004 $15, ISBN 0...
  107. A Brief and Tentative Analysis of Negro Leadership by Ralph J. Bunche, edited with ...
  108. People Get Ready! A New History of Black Gospel Music by Robert Darden Continuum Inte...
  109. Finally, I have landed in the pages of Black Issues Book Review ("Starting Here,...
  110. Doormat by Kelly McWilliams Delacorte Press, September 2004 $15.95, ISBN 0-385-73168-...
  111. In the past five years, we've experienced a salvo of celebrities such as Alicia Keys,...
  112. ZORA NEALE HURSTON, WHO WAS prone to prophetic dreams and visions, undoubtedly foresa...
  113. The Untelling by Tayari Jones Warner Books, April 2005 $24.95, ISBN 0-446-53246-0 T...
  114. Revolution Televised: Prime Time and the Struggle for Black Power by Christine Acha...
  115. The Golden Hour by Maiya Williams Amulet Books, March 2004 $16.95, ISBN 0-810-94823-0...
  116. In the beginning was the poet. Then the poet called the paper. In partnership, the po...
  117. Zora Neale Hurston, the flamboyant writer and folklorist gains in fame with each year...
  118. After being released from prison in 1936, Chester Himes tried to publish a manuscript...
  119. Even publishers of the Good Book wrestle with this age old question: "How do we ...
  120. "Writing isn't my second choice. Writing is a parallel vocation." --Barba...
  121. The portrait of Barbara Smith was taken by Leigh H. Mosley and that of Audre Lorde wa...
  122. Orphea Proud by Sharon Dennis Wyeth Delacorte Press, November 2004, $15.95, ISBN 0-38...
  123. Imagine a house perched on seven acres of land, adjacent to a tree-lined pond with a ...
  124. If in the year 1999 you were a literary connoisseur looking for a masterpiece in the ...
  125. When you think of Bible reading, do you envision a roomful of priests quietly poring ...
  126. Honey Baby Sugar Child by Alice Faye Duncan Illustrated by Susan Keeter Simon & S...
  127. Google, the online search gizmo that became a verb, announced a plan in December 2004...
  128. The volumes in the fine-arts series published by Delano Greenidge Editions (DGE) defy...
  129. Wrestling With the Muse: Dudley by Melba Joyce Boyd Columbia University Press, Februa...
  130. A Breed Apart: A Journey to Redemption by Victor Woods, Atria Books, January 2003 $24...
  131. Toward the middle of my first novel, Upstate (St. Martin's Press, January 2005), a te...
  132. times like this are times when black people are with each other & the strength fl...
  133. NONFICTION * United States Senator Barack Obama of Illinois has struck a $1.9 milli...
  134. This past year marks the first time in 18 years that four African American male write...
  135. The Professor's Daughter by Emily Raboteau Henry Holt and Company, February 2005 $24,...
  136. Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Laws That Chan...
  137. The Voice of My Boundaries: Life-Changing Exercises Your Other Coaches Didn't Tell Yo...
  138. A wealth of books by new authors--mostly self-published--has filled the African Ameri...
  139. U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials have been investigating the death of a...
  140. Creating Their Own Image The History of African-American Women Artists by Lisa E. F...
  141. Furious Flower: African American Poetry From the Black Arts Movement to the Present ...
  142. In the four years it took me to complete Pound for Pound: A Biography of Sugar Ray Ro...
  143. Dying in the Dark: A Tamara Hayle Mystery by Valerie Wilson Wesley One World/Ballanti...
  144. Looking for Mr. Gilbert: The Reimagined Life Of An African American. by John Hanson...
  145. Entrepreneurial Faith: Launching Bold Initiatives to Expand God's Kingdom by Kirbyj...
  146. Visit any magazine rack in a bookstore, on a newsstand or at a grocery store, and the...
  147. NEW YORK CITY, NY PEN World Voices: The New York Festival of International Literatu...
  148. Three Decades of Printmaking: The Brandywine Workshop Collection Introduction by Ha...
  149. The Unfinished Agenda of The Selma-Montgomery Voting Rights March (John Wiley & S...
  150. Babylon Sisters by Pearl Cleage One World/Ballantine Books, April 2005 $23.95, ISBN 0...
  151. The Boundaries of Her Body: The Troubling History of Women's Rights in America by D...
  152. Thinking With the Heart: Principle, Practice and Purpose for Spiritual Wellness by ...
  153. Hardcover Fiction 1. Drive Me Crazy/Eric Jerome Dickey (1) ($23.95, Dutton Books,...
  154. Thanks for your excellent survey of distinctly African American worship books by Kath...
  155. The Chemistry of Color African American Artists in Philadelphia 1970-1990 written by ...
  156. The Maverick Room by Thomas Sayers Ellis Graywolf Press, January 2005 $14, ISBN 1-555...
  157. My Jim by Nancy Rawles Crown Publishers, January 2005 $19.95, ISBN 1-400-05400-1 Na...
  158. Rising From the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class by ...
  159. Healed Without Scars by David G. Evans Whitaker House. August 2004 $12.99, ISBN 0-8...
  160. Thank you for highlighting Susan Taylor's voice, immeasurable publication achievement...
  161. The American Library Association (ALA) announced the annual Coretta Scott King Awards...
  162. Thirty-five years ago, a single day in Selma became a seminal moment in the history o...
  163. Even As Your Soul Prospers: Realize Your Purpose Release Your Blessings by Thomas W...
  164. In Debut Fiction (winner) Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche, Algonquin Boo...
  165. High Impact African-American Churches: Leadership Concepts From Some of Today's Most ...
  166. After I was halfway through the second of the many books I would review for this assi...
  167. Romare Bearden Photographs by Frank Stewart, David C. Driskell Ruth Fine, Pomegranate...
  168. It is a fall night at a suburban Washington, D.C., hotel where authors--some decked o...
  169. Dr. King's Refrigerator and Other Bedtime Stories by Charles Johnson Scribner, Februa...
  170. The Accidental Hunter by Nelson George Touchstone, February 2005 $13, ISBN 0-743-2355...
  171. FICTION Melody Guy at Ballantine's One World bought two new novels by Travis Hunter...
  172. Gary Hardwick's just published spy novel The Executioner's Game (HarperCollins, Janua...
  173. Frontiers of Freedom: Cincinnati's Black Community, 1802-1868 by Nikki M. Taylor Ohio...
  174. In our March-April 2005 issue and on our Web site, look for the winners of Scholastic...
  175. Since the release of Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale (Viking Press) in 1992 and th...
  176. Ish by Peter H. Reynolds Candlewick Press, July 2004 $14, ISBN 0-763-62344-X Ages 4-8...
  177. Common Ground: Discovering Community in the 150 Years of Art Foreword by Bill Clinton...
  178. Literacy is the beginning of freedom" is the motto of The Digital Literacy Allia...
  179. Fleeing for Freedom: Stories of the Underground Railroad As Told by Levi Coffin and W...
  180. Charitable Heifer International donates livestock to poor communities around the worl...
  181. Judging Thomas: Tim Life and Times of Clarence Thomas by Ken Foskett William Morrow...
  182. In the same year that the National Endowment for the Arts issued a report detailing a...
  183. 40 Days to a Life of G.O.L.D. (God-Ordained Life Development) by Ed Gray, with Forewo...
  184. Faces of Africa: Thirty Years of Photography by Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher Nati...
  185. "How do you two write novels together?" It's the question we are asked most...
  186. Kipligat's Chance by David Odhiambo St. Martin's Press, October 2004 $12.95, ISBN 0-3...
  187. Departures by Adrienne Bellamy New American Library, September 2004 $13.95, ISBN 0-45...
  188. When former NBA guard John Starks read his ghostwritten autobiography, he didn't like...
  189. Those Preaching Women Volume 4 Edited by Ella Pearson Mitchell and Jacqueline B. Glas...
  190. Afrikan Alphabets: The Story of Writing in Afrika by Saki Mafundikwa Mark Batty Publi...
  191. Althea Gibson believed that records were meant to be broken, but it took four decades...
  192. More Than You Know by Rosalyn Story Agate, September 2004 $24.95, ISBN 0-972-45628-7 ...