Joshunda Sanders's Blog, page 53
July 13, 2013
July 12, 2013
Victor LaValle’s assessment is right, and I think this...
Victor LaValle’s assessment is right, and I think this Boston Review piece about Long Division is the best thing that’s been written about it.
I’ve written a feature for Kirkus about Kiese Laymon’s book of essays, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
, that will come out closer to the publication date for the book, which is August 13.
"Claire of the Sea Light…is about intertwined lives in a small seaside town in Haiti, where a..."
July 11, 2013
"She was beautiful, in the quiet way that lonely, unnoticed people are beautiful to those who notice..."
"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I..."
blackfolksmakingcomics:
Hip-hop icon Darryl “DMC" McDaniels is...
Hip-hop icon Darryl “DMC" McDaniels is launching his own independent comic imprint, DMC (Darryl Makes Comics) with a future Kickstarter campaign to create their first title. The first title (not titled at this time) will blend the familiar culture, from music, graffiti art, and the lifestyle, with the superheroic mythos that part of the industry that the creators grew up enjoying in a 48-page graphic novel.
While Mr. McDaniels will be the publisher, his collaborators are no wide-eyed novices to the comics medium. The Editor-in-Chief is Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez and Riggs Morales serves as Senior Editor. The graphic novel will feature some of the comic industry’s finest including artist Damion Scott (Batman, Batgirl, Robin, Solo and Spider-Man), ink-work by Dexter Vines (Superman, Batman, Civil War and Wolverine), and writer Ronald Wimberly (Prince of Cats). More creators will be involved.
Stay tuned for the latest.
Very cool.
July 8, 2013
"(Trayvon) was one of the few guys that never made fun of me, about the way I dressed, about the way..."
rachelfershleiser:
“Nobody should write a memoir before they’re...
“Nobody should write a memoir before they’re fifty,” you announce to your friends over drinks. You are not fifty. “Everyone seems to think being 27 and unhappy in love is all you need to write a book about your life. You should have to get licensed before you can write one.” You are on your fourth glass of wine. It is Tuesday. “You should have to–be Gore Vidal, or a cultural attaché, or have invented genocide or something.” You spilled a little bit of your wine during that last remark, but it has landed on your napkin and you don’t think anyone noticed.
(via Ten Writers Whose Success You’ll Resent This Year)
Beautiful genius Mallory Ortberg and genius whom I’ve never met but is probably beautiful Nicole Cliffe have a new site! It is funny and feminist and bookish and amazing. Read it all. Follow it on social things. Comment up a storm. Share it with your friends. I am so not jealous, okay, except for a little bit.
