TIME TO VOTE!

Brothers,

This is our new selection schedule:

January: topical or “issues” nonfiction

March: memoir

May: wide-open, wild card, genre-free

September: novel

November: wide-open nonfiction

We’re still getting used to our selection schedule, so I’ve had to sift through the nominations in order to make sure that only those books that come close to memoirs comprise the nominations below (in alphabetical order). Some suggestions were novels, some were “issues” nonfiction, and while we’re only selecting memoirs for March, the good news is that ANYTHING can be nominated in May, as it’s our “wide-open, wild card genre-free” selection.

This is a good crop of nominations; depth and breadth, lots of choices. Each brother has two (2) votes, and we'll vote for the next two days, and if it’s close we’ll vote in person on Saturday, when we meet to discuss The Hip Hop Generation, our first “issues” nonfiction selection. Usual time, usual place. Peace.

David Carr, The Night of the Gun

George Dawson, Life Is So Good

Tony Dungy, Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life

James McBride, The Color of Water

Joan Morgan, When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost : My Life as A Hip Hop Feminist

Tracy Morgan, I Am the New Black

The Rza, The Tao of Wu

Anna Deavere Smith, Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind

Karrine Steffans, Confessions of a Video Vixen

Cornel West, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, A Memoir