First, I'd like to co-sign Aubrey's suggestion that you guys check out the "30 Americans" exhibition at the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk. I saw it at the Corcoran Gallery in D.C.---twice---and highly recommend it.
Since we're selecting our book for September, we're selecting a NOVEL this time out. Nominations are officially open. From tonight, SATURDAY, to TUESDAY night, May 15, you may nominate no more than two (2) books of the above genre. From WEDNESDAY, May 16 to FRIDAY, May 18, you may vote
for no more than three (3) of the books that were nominated earlier in the week. If there’s a tie we’ll take a secret-ballot
vote at the meeting to determine the winning book selection.
1. Our Man in the Dark - Rashad Harrison
ReplyDelete2. I am Not Sidney Poitier - Percival Everett
1. The Book of Night Women -- Marlon James
ReplyDelete2. Big Machine -- Victor LaValle
(a note on "Big Machine": One of the few high-ranking black executive editors of a major publishing house is a guy named Chris Jackson. Of the books we've read in our five years of Black Men Read?!, Jackson has edited at least three of them: "The Beautiful Struggle," by Ta-Nehisi Coates; "$40 Millions Dollar Slaves," by William C. Rhoden; and "The Other Wes Moore," by Wes Moore. It might be interesting to read "Big Machine," a novel edited by Jackson, in addition to the three nonfiction books we've read so far...)
Breath, Eyes,Memory
ReplyDeleteEdwidge Danticat