UPDATE: The full and corrected version of this essay is now up at LitHub , as " Elements of Literary Style. " I'm keeping the...

Here a few photos from the 2016  American Book Awards ceremony, which was held at the San Francisco Jazz Center . The highlight of the eve...

I am elated to announce that Counternarratives  has received a 2016  American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation (BCF) .   When...

Three weeks back, through serendipity's hand, Counternarratives  and its author made their way into the WNYC studios and onto the...

The Black Arts Movement has rightly received extensive--though still not enough--critical and scholarly treatment as one of the major mom...

This past Sunday brought the sort of event that too seldom occurs: two of the leading African American writers and cultural avatars--two of...

Ishmael Reed (National Black Writers Conference) We come to the end of Poetry Month . Since I began the month with a poem by a poet I k...

I still haven't seen Precious, Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire , though I suppose I'll get around to it eventually. ...