The Overseer Class will launch at @strandbookstore on May 19…the birthday of this book and of Malcolm X, Grace Jones and Lorraine Hansberry!
If you were at the Strand’s launch for The Viral Underclass, you know my book events are celebrations you won’t forget. So please join us as
📕@thisisuna leads us as Mixtreas of Ceremonies!
📕@reetamac reads poetry!
📕@afeefness shares about journalism in Palestine!
📕@thesamhita talks to me about The Overseer Class & her book, The Myth of Making It!
and I get to publicly thank the people who made this book come to life
Get your tickets at the link in the bio!
A stack of friends' and acquaintances' books published this year for the grid with a couple of exceptions (The Payback is WI withe the fam) Trying to keep up with reading these geniuses.
For @guardian_us , I wrote about Nikki Giovanni's legacy moved by all of you, sharing and loving Giovanni on this platform among many social media sites.
We hope to see you at the December edition of Village Story Salon, featuring Syreeta McFadden.
Thursday, December 12 at 6pm at the Hudson Park branch of the New York Public Library, 33 Leroy Street in NYC. Free and open to the public.
Bio: Syreeta McFadden is a writer and professor of English at the City University of New York’s Borough of Manhattan Community College. Her work has appeared in the poetry anthology, BREAK BEAT POETS 2: BLACK GIRL MAGIC from Haymarket Books, and the anthology INDELIBLE IN THE HIPPOCAMPUS: WRITINGS FROM THE #METOO MOVEMENT from McSweeney’s Press. Her essays and criticism has appeared in The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, NBC News’ THINK, New York Times Magazine, Elle, The Guardian, Brooklyn Magazine, and BuzzFeed News. Her feature articles have appeared in Rolling Stone, BuzzFeed News, The Nation, ZORA Magazine, the Carnegie Reporter and AFAR Magazine. From 2014 to 2016, she was a columnist for The Guardian US. She has appeared as a guest on NPR’s Tell Me More and On Point, WNYC’s On The Media, and CNN’s United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell. She is currently writing a book-length collection of reported essays about African Americans in the Middle West.
I voted early. Regardless of how this goes. Ready to support people and causes that want to fight for a better world in small ways and grand ways if I can.
