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If there’s anyone, writer, editor or publisher, with the cred to reform the idea of mainstream fiction, it’s best-selling novelist Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez. Her first novel, The Dirty Girls Social Club, introduced the idea of chick lit with brown characters for mass consumption. Since then, she’s published six novels and a young adult series, optioned some [...] One of my favorite authors, Zora Neale Hurston, is getting an awful lot of press lately, including this essay in The Washington Post‘s magazine last Sunday, April 18. Among other things, it talks about the novelist’s relationship to her hometown of Eatonville: “Many of Eatonville’s streets are named after citrus fruits, and one morning, N.Y. [...] We’re more concerned with what’s inside of a book’s pages here at Uptown Literati, but when a book cover is artfully done, well, that gets our attention too. In the 300,000th unnecessary-but-amusing thrusting of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland into the pop culture spotlight, retailer Antropologie is selling a beautiful, pink flamingo cover of the [...] This year’s Pultizer Prize for Fiction goes to Paul Harding and his debut novel Tinkers, which is about a man and his fixation with building and mending and, obviously, tinkering. Other book winners included: History: Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed Biography: The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by [...] We loved The Opposite of Me, Maryland-based author Sarah Pekkanen’s debut novel. The novel is a funny story of sisterhood with a message that is sure to resonate with anyone who’s ever contemplated a life change. We spoke with Pekkanen about the motivation behind the book (Hint: Not any real life sibling drama) and plans for [...] Literature is everywhere and not just in books. Take Zora&Alice, the brand new online zine for women of color. Besides the fabulously bookish title (keep reading for the inspiration), the magazine aims provide a full-range of content for women that want to look beyond lipstick and labels. We spoke with founder Ope Bukola (also a SheReads [...] Jackson Pollock: An American Saga by Steven Naifeh. “The Jackson Pollock bio really is a saga — it’s 800 pages long. I’m on page 650 and loving every bit of it. I only recently saw the movie, for which Marcia Gay Harden won the Oscar playing his wife, Lee [...] Lindsey Rose’s life is perfectly in order when The Opposite of Me opens: She’s hours away from being made one of the vice-presidents at a large advertising firm, weeks away from owning a piece real estate in a tony New York neighborhood, she’s got a closet full of designer clothes, oh, and she’s [...] The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Diaz I recently wrote a short list of my favorite African-American authors who grace Twitter for a really cool online zine, Clutch. Longtime readers recall that Uptown Literati used to do a weekly reading list for the site, which will resume next month! I focused on Black authors because they were so woefully ignored by mainstream lists, [...] |
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