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May 15, 2015
Talking B.B. King
I’ll be talking B.B. King today at 11:45am est with NPR On Point. I’m not worthy, but somebody’s got to do it.
April 6, 2015
Beale Street Empire
The stories of Beale Street emperor Robert Church and Empire Entertainment’s Lucious Lyon meet on Salon.com
Beale Street Empire
The stories of Beale Street emperor Robert Church and Empire Entertainment’s Lucious Lyon meet on Salon.com
March 31, 2015
Beale Street Audiobook Contest
Beale Street Dynasty is now available in an audio edition at audible.com. Narrator Mirron WIllis has lent his inimitable tone to such works as W.E.B. DuBois’s The Souls of Black Folk, Hilton Als’s White Girls, and the Harriet Beecher Stowe classic Uncle Tom’s Cabin. You can sample it on audible.com or answer this trivia question […]
Beale Street Audiobook Contest
Beale Street Dynasty is now available in an audio edition at audible.
Narrator Mirron WIllis has lent his inimitable tone to such works as W.E.B. DuBois’s The Souls of Black Folk, Hilton Als’s White Girls, and the Harriet Beecher Stowe classic Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
You can sample it on audible.com or answer this trivia question in the comments section:
Who said, “If you were black for one Saturday night on Beale Street, you’d never want to be white anymore” ?
March 24, 2015
Beale Street Dynasty On Point
Listen to Memphis Minnie say “mother fuyer” on NPR, On Point with Tom Ashbrook.
March 16, 2015
The Real Beale
The Memphis Commercial Appeal provided a nice look at Beale Street Dynasty plus the lowdown on this weekend’s celebration of the street in Memphis. You’re not going to want to miss the return of Calvin Newborn, Friday night March 20 at the Daisy, or the walking tour of Beale Street, known in some circles as the Beale Street […]
January 13, 2015
Beale Street Dynasty reviewed…
in Publishers Weekly
January 7, 2015
A Cheap Idea
William Faulkner and I have both written trashy books about Memphis. Here’s where they intersect: A Cheap Idea
November 10, 2014
Raunchiest wordplay…
I reviewed Gary Krist’s EMPIRE OF SIN and Michael Ross’ THE GREAT NEW ORLEANS KIDNAPPING at WSJ Books. The reviewer became the reviewed in the comments section, where one reader made the best observation of my work that I’ve ever seen: ‘Surely <> is the […]
