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Saturday, November 23, 2024

Worthy November Events

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November is National Gratitude Month (What are you grateful for?), National Family Stories Month (A good time to share stories from your fam...
Thursday, November 7, 2024

Books To Read In A Troubled Time

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It's time to dust off our copies of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (William Shirer), 1984  (George Orwell), Farenheit 451 (Ray Bra...
Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Creepy Stories For Halloween

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Here are two very creepy stories that I recently re-read. They are, I think, appropriate reading for Halloween: The first is "The Lotte...
Saturday, October 12, 2024

Four Biographical Novels On My To-Read List

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I enjoy reading biographies. I especially enjoy reading biographical novels. Because much of what's in these books are "products of...
Friday, September 27, 2024

A Book Publisher's Incomplete Name

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There was a New York publishing house called Four Walls Eight Windows. That name always sounded incomplete to me. How about Four Walls Eight...
Monday, September 9, 2024

My Brief Interview With Playwright Assotto Saint

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The following is from the transcript of an interview I did in 1989 with the late gay Haitian-American poet/essayist/playwright Assotto Saint...
Thursday, August 22, 2024

Three Must-Read Books About James Baldwin

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There are three books about James Baldwin that are still on my Must-Read -Cover-To-Cover list. Two of them I never got a chance to finish....
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Charles Michael Smith is a freelance journalist and book reviewer in New York City. He has written for several newspapers and magazines. He is also the editor of "Fighting Words: Essays by Black Gay Men" (Avon Books, 1999); it was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. His article about Harlem Renaissance luminary Bruce Nugent appeared in "In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology," edited by Joseph Beam (Alyson, 1986; reissued Redbone Press, 2008). He was interviewed for a Q & A article that was published in "Mighty Real: An Anthology of African-American Same Gender Loving Writing," edited by R. Bryant Smith and Darius Omar Williams (Effusses/Sangha Publishing, 2010). Urbanbookmaven (c) 2008. All Rights Reserved. No portion of this blog, including any text, photographs, and artwork may be reproduced or copied without written permission.
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