Thank you @itsmetheyfollow , @rodriquesque , and the one and only JJ.
"I appreciate that it's not a traditional text—you can open any page and find a "word" like a holy book. My City Need Something is a collaboration that feels like a barber shop conversation." —Jeannine A. Cook, owner of Harriett's Book Shop and author of It's Me They Follow
"Incredible and inspiring. karim brown's photographs capture the block's electricity, Chris Rogers's writing carries us through its griefs to hope, and together they expand the horizons of our dreams." —Elias Rodriques, author of All the Water I've Seen is
Running
"A meditation on our lives interwoven with fibers that bind us to love despite pain and alienation.
Christopher Rogers and karim brown's analyses, prose, and images press us into meditating on Nina Simone's wish to feel free, thus this text enables us to become so." —Joy James, author of New Bones Abolition and editor of Confronting Counterinsurgency
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Nicholas Boggs’s biography demonstrates the centrality of love to all aspects of Baldwin’s life. His experiences of love and his belief in its overriding power made it possible for him to write, to think, and to participate in movements for social change. The man who theorized, in The Fire Next Time, that love could solve what was then called the “Negro problem” came to this conclusion not only in the face of the harrowing amounts of hate he found in American society, but also through the abundance of care, generosity, and friendship he found in his private life. Baldwin’s beloveds helped him recover from suicide attempts. They helped him learn to accept himself and his sexuality. And they helped him find hope in the cross-cultural and interracial relations that, in Boggs’s telling, cemented his belief in the possibility of a better tomorrow. Read more from Elias Rodriques at the link in our bio.
Heard from a homie that my book is on display at one of my favorite bookshops @alleycatbooks . This spot has introduced me to so many great books and authors. I’m honored.
