Friday, July 18, 2014

A Notebook on Book History

2020

2019
• April 20: Frederick Douglass and Alain Locke biographies awarded Pulitzer Prizes

2018
• July 27: Black movie heroes read Ta-Nehisi Coates
• March 30: A series on black book culture
            • African American students and bookstores
            • Black men, personal libraries, and Black Book Culture
            • Black book culture
            • Black bookstores in NYC: toward a history
            • Ben McFall -- Nearly 40 years at the Strand Bookstore
• January 19: Black fathers, African American literary studies, and special collections

2017
• July 2: Black books and recent selections for Common Reading programs

2016
• December 16: Kevin Young's Books: A Visual History  
• February 11: The Frederick Douglass books

2015
• November 9: Black Female Figures & Poetry Book Covers

2014
• September 27: The engaging reading practices of Tisha Brooks 
• September 25: Gwendolyn Brooks, "We Real Cool" & Poetry Magazine (1959) 
• September 19: Book History and Frederick Douglass's Narrative 
• August 4: The Connectivity of Allison Joseph's My Father's Kites
• August 2: Frank X. Walker's poetry books, including a sequel 
• August 1: Notes on Amiri Baraka's Low Coup  
• July 31: Select Graywolf Press Books by Black Writers, 2000 - 2013 
• July 30: The Size & Shape of Evie Shockley's books 
• July 29: Those Allison Joseph books
• July 28: Nikky Finney's Head Off & Split
• July 25: Mona Lisa Saloy's Red Beans and Ricely Yours
• July 23: From Unforgivable Blackness and Samuel Jackson to Adrian Matejka's The Big Smoke
• July 23: James E. Cherry's books
• July 22: Ai's books & W. W. Norton & Company
• July 21: James Smethurst and scholarship on the Black Arts Movement 
• July 21: Nikki Giovanni's book cover appearances 
• July 18: Gary Jackson's Missing You, Metropolis & Jason McCall's Dear Hero,
• July 17: The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader 
• July 16: Reading Marilyn Nelson this summer   
• July 4: Paul Green & Richard Wright's Native Son

2013
• September 21: Covers of Octavia Butler Patternist Series Novels
• September 2: Richard Wright Autobiography covers

2012
• June 12: Collected & Selected Works of Black Women Poets    
• June 12: The Collected Works (Readers) of Black Scholars 
• June 8: The Mis-Education of the Negro [Book Covers]

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