RubiconReader: My Open Letter to the African-American Media - August 10, 2011

To: All African-American Media Outlets

“If you want to hide something from a Black person put it in a book”.

It seems that statement has been around as long as time itself.  Unfortunately, as old as that statement is, it is still sadly very relevant today.  Reading is the fundamental backbone of everything we do in society.  While our (African-American) authors are working harder than ever, writing more than ever, and self-promoting more than ever, they are fighting an uphill battle.  The battle is making our authors more visible in the eyes of our people.

While our African-American entertainment shows are popular now more than ever, you have reached that pinnacle by blatantly ignoring one of the most important contributors to our society.  Authors.  We celebrate our actors, our musicians, and our athletes, but not composers of the written word.  Our authors, on a consistent basis, populate the New York Times Bestseller Lists but do not populate your guest lists.  This is an omission that must not continue.  Our authors are some of the most intelligent, insightful, and humorous scholars the literary fraternity has to offer.  They need to be treated with the respect they have more than earned.

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Written by my friend:

Jason Frost – RubiconReader
rubiconreader@gmail.com

Mailbox Monday

 

Mailbox Monday

is hosted by Rose City Readers (January Host)

We share what books that we found 

in our mailboxes last week.

 

Okay, I saw my friend Jason's review on this book and I had to buy a copy.  I got a signed copy from the author.  Here is a link to Jason's review: rubiconreader-rubiconreader.blogspot.com/2011/01/pussy-whispers-by-dean-jean-pierre.html.  I think you will agree after reading this review that this book begs to be read! 

 

 The Pussy Whispers by Dean Jean-Pierre

The Pussy Whispers is a delicious collection of sensually erotic short stories and poetry which will stimulate all of your senses as you indulge in this writer's brand of erotica. The lyrical passion will caress your mind and feed your body from the first mental stroke of The Pussy Whispers verbal penetration. It will leave you craving and thirsting for more...

This book I got from Shelf Awareness.  It's an advance copy.

 When the Thrill is Gone by WalterMosley

Leonid McGill is back, in the third-and most enthralling and ambitious-installment in Walter Mosley's latest New York Times- bestselling series.

The economy has hit the private-investigator business hard, even for the detective designated as "a more than worthy successor to Philip Marlowe" (The Boston Globe) and "the perfect heir to Easy Rawlins" (Toronto Globe and Mail). Lately, Leonid McGill is getting job offers only from the criminals he's worked so hard to leave behind. Meanwhile, his life grows ever more complicated: his favorite stepson, Twill, drops out of school for mysteriously lucrative pursuits; his best friend, Gordo, is diagnosed with cancer and is living on Leonid's couch; his wife takes a new lover, infuriating the old one and endangering the McGill family; and Leonid's girlfriend, Aura, is back but intent on some serious conversations...

So how can he say no to the beautiful young woman who walks into his office with a stack of cash? She's an artist, she tells him, who's escaped from poverty via marriage to a rich collector who keeps her on a stipend. But she says she fears for her life, and needs Leonid's help. Though Leonid knows better than to believe every word, this isn't a job he can afford to turn away, even as he senses that-if his family's misadventures don't kill him first-sorting out the woman's crooked tale will bring him straight to death's door.