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If rigorous academic readings bear fruit in knowledge,
then reading for interest or pleasure must bear similar fruit in imagination |
Everything Good Will Come
Sefi Atta
Interlink Books
ISBN: 978-1-566-567046
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Nat Turner: Graphic Novel
Kyle Baker
Abrams
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0810972271
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How To Draw Noir Comics
Shawn Martinbrough
Watson-Guptill
ISBN: 978-0-8230-24063
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This is the story of two girl’s friendship in Nigeria 1971 where military rule and tradition collide with their days and times. Read it.
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Gritty with black and white imagery, the graphic novel Nat Turner captures the emotion and intensity of a revolution from Turner’s beginnings.
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If you see it, you can do it; especially if you are animator Shawn Martinbrough. Here is where he tells you how. Again, click on the link for a more thorough understanding.
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Incognegro
Mat Johnson
DC Comics
ISBN: 978-1-4012-1097-7
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Digital Experience Design
Linda Leung
intellect books
ISBN: 184150209X |
Letters from Black America
Pamela Newkirk
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 978-0374101091
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What can I say? Mat Johnson makes it look easy to be a wizard with words and fierce with concepts. Incognegro is a page turning graphic novel set in the Jim Crow South. The protagonist is a Northern Negro journalist that goes South and reports on Segregation and abuse mainly by “passing” for white.
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A chronicle of the diverse histories and perspectives of people working in the dot.com world alongside an account of the current issues facing the industry. From the perspective of older disciplines such as education, fine art, and cinema, this volume investigates how dot.com practitioners balance the science of usability with abstract factors such as the emotional response design can provoke. |
I recently saw Newkirk do a discussion at the Brooklyn Museum where she talked about searching for letters and the obstacles involved in her hunt. She didn't’t have Malcolm X’s, ahem, el Hajj Malik el Shabazz’s, Letter from Mecca but she did have personal accounts from luminaries such as Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Thurgood Marshall, Booker T. Washington, Jean Toomer, W.E.B Dubois and other names you know plus some you should.
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| To contact the chef, Brook Stephenson, our literary editor, send an email to bs@natcreole.com. |
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Steps to Machu Picchu
.::brook stephenson
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Peru started for me with a conversation between two people, who have met before, hanging out and getting to know each other at a micro brewery over three-ounce beer samplers of nine brews with a meal. It was cool as we related life tales and at the end it went to… |
“Wow, I’ve never met a brother who likes to travel so much.”
Then it was, “You should come on this trip to Peru.”
“Really,” thinking about it, “sounds cool.”
“No you should go.”
“Uh huh.”
“No really, you should go.”
Another “Uh huh.”
“No,” pause, “You should go.”
I pause this time on the she-is-really-serious and should-I-really-go tip.
Aw what the hell, “Okay, I’ll go.”
“For real you should really go.”
That’s right, she didn’t know me. I meant it when I said I would go.
“No, I’m seriously down. What’s the plan?”
“I’ll show you online. You got to get your ticket soon though.”
A trip back to the hotel room and a website perusing later, I found there was one spot left for the package hike to Machu Picchu. Continue |
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| Brook Stephenson is nat creole's literary editor. He is a New York based writer and educator whose work has appeared in Vibe, XXL, Uptown Magazine and King Magazine. For more information about him go to www.brookstephenson.com. For a richer and more extensive journaling of his experience in Peru go to http://brooklife.blogspot.com. |
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Impossible Man
michael muhammad knight
soft skull press |
When Michael Muhammad Knight, the author of The Taqwacores, founder of American Muslim punk, and leading nontraditional scholar of Islam was six years old, he asked his single mother about his absent father. His mother answered that his father “got sick and ran away.”
Several years later, he learned the true story: how his father, a paranoid schizophrenic and white supremacist, alternately convinced that Michael’s mother was in league with the devil and that she would give birth to a line of superhuman rulers.
Impossible Man is the story of a teenager’s troubled pathway toward maturity and the influences that steady him on his way to adulthood. Knight’s |
Impossible Man
Soft Skull Press
ISBN-10: 1593762267
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encounter with Public Enemy and The Autobiography of Malcolm X leads him to embrace Islam with all the unbalanced overzealousness and naiveté of a disturbed adolescent in search of salvation. His affinity for Islam deepens and at age 17 he travels to Faisal Mosque in Islamabad to study his adopted religion, putting him on track similar to that of Richard Reid, the shoe-bomber. Read the Excerpt |
| Michael Muhammad Knight is the author of Blue-Eyed Devil and The Five Percenters: Islam, Hip-Hop, and the Gods of New York, Journey to the End of Islam, an account of international pilgrimage, and his next novel, Osama Van Halen. For more info go to http://www.softskull.com/. |
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cultivating pearls: a writer’s
retreat comes home
the north country institute
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An oft used African proverb by a well-known fiction author states, “Where there is mud, there is water.” Transfer an upstate writing retreat on the shores of Lake Champlain in Essex and Valcour, New York to Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and what is created in the process is the equivalent of an oasis-in-the making; it is a workshop experience with the balanced combination of discipline, reflection, and openness that artists crave.
The North Country Institute for Writers of Color (NCI), a collaboration between the Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College; the English department at SUNY, Plattsburgh; and the Paden Institute for Writers of Color, sponsored its fifth writing workshop and retreat (the second in Brooklyn) at Medgar Evers College this year. A new group of talented poets and fiction writers joined together and experienced what is quickly becoming one of the best kept secrets in city. Continued |
| Ahmad Wright is a writer and adjunct professor at Medgar Evers College and the College of New Rochelle. He has published in Dark Dreams:Horror Fiction Anthology, African Voices, and he has written numerous book reviews. Wright has participated in several writers' retreats including the Zora Neale Hurston Writers Retreat and the North Country Institute and Retreat for Writers of Color. |
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