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Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi: Review
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Review by Sidik Fofana The poem “Blue Seuss” by Terrance Hayes begins “Blacks stacked in boxes stacked on boxes/ Blacks in boxes stacked on shores” and ends “Blacks in rows of houses are/ Blacks in boxes too”. It is this same kind of African-American journey from the coasts of the motherland to…
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Best Books of 2013
After 365 days of nonstop reading, writer and editor Clarence Reynolds has whittled his best books down to an exquisite nine titles. Let us know if you think he’s forgotten a book or two.
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William Melvin Kelley: Interview
by Steve Kemme An air of mystery clings to the writing career of William Melvin Kelley like a morning mist. In the 1960s, Kelley produced three novels and a book of short stories that established him as one of America’s most talented young fiction writers. With his first novel, A Different Drummer, published in 1962,…
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New Claude McKay Novel Discovered | NYTimes.com
A Columbia graduate student and his adviser have authenticated the student’s discovery of an unknown manuscript of a 1941 novel by Claude McKay, a leading Harlem Renaissance writer and author of the first novel by a black American to become a best seller.
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The Life and Legacy of Black Queer Literature
August 8, 2012 – I attended the panel “Live to Tell: The Life and Legacy of Black Queer Literature,” which was presented by the Black Gay & Lesbian Archive Program Series at the Schomburg Center for Research into Black Culture.
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The Warmth of Other Suns
The New Orleans Diaspora: A Review and Reflection by Fatima Shaik Isabel Wilkerson’s first book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, couldn’t have come out at a better time for black New Orleanians, who as 2010 statistics confirmed but our own hearts knew lost more than a third of…
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Wil Haygood
Friday, April 8, 2011 – Harlem politicos were out in force to honor biographer and journalist Wil Haygood. His work documenting the lives of Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Sammy Davis Jr., and Sugar Ray Robinson is an important historical record.
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Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
February 1, 2011 – Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts author of Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America was joined by Ron Kavanaugh, publisher of Mosaic Literary Magazine to discuss her new book. The event was standing room only at HueMan Bookstore in Harlem, NYC.
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Walter Dean Myers: Interview
The Transitional Voice of Walter Dean Myers by Ozioma Egwuonwu Originally appeared in Mosaic #22 August 2008 Walter Dean Myers, perhaps the most prolific writer of African-American young adult fiction, and Mosaic contributor Ozioma Egwuonwu chat about his new book Game, as well as pulling from personal experience to establish an authentic voice for the young…
