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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — This month’s Mississippi Book Festival has been canceled amid concerns of contagion from the latest surge in coronavirus infections. “Authors were very uncomfortable traveling, and we didn’t want to take any chances,” the festival’s executive director, Holly Lange, said Wednesday. “We did not want to be a super-spreader event and put […]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — This months Mississippi Book Festival has been canceled amid...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - This month's Mississippi Book Festival has been canceled amid concerns of contagion from the latest surge in coronavirus infections.

Here’s what you should check out this week: Honoring a legend: Today would have been James Baldwin’s 97th birthday. Authors Darnell Moore, Marlon Peterson, and Kiese Laymon—who have all written memoirs exploring Black manhood—will discuss Baldwin’s lasting legacy in “Historically Speaking: Reflecting on the work of James Baldwin and Black Masculinity,” a talk from the National Museum of African American History and Culture Museum. Monday 8/2 at 7 PM; Free, register here. Bring a b...

By ISABELLE TAFT, Sun Herald GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) _ Inside a little office in downtown Gulfport, Tonisha Kimble is writing a new chapter in Mississippi’s history of Black-owned book stores. Kimble opened the Wonders of the World Book and Toy Store space earlier this month, after years in business as an online vendor. The shop displays comics, picture books like “Freedom We Sing,” and notebooks Kimble designed herself, including one with the Audre Lorde quote “Caring for myself is not se...

New Black-owned Mississippi shop isnt worried about Amazon ISABELLE TAFT, Sun Herald FacebookTwitterEmail 5 1of5A shelf of childrens coloring books and other books at Wonders of the World Book and Toy Store Monday, July 12, 2021 in Gulfport, Miss. Inside a little office in downtown Gulfport, Tonisha Kimble is writing a new chapter in Mississippi’s history of Black-owned book stores. Kimble opened the Wonders of the World Book and Toy Store space earlier this month, after years in ...

Read Long Division by Kiese Laymon and immediately you feel the revelry in the prose. It’s folkloric, modern, rendered with warmth and humour, and always coming back to the subject of love – what we do for it, who we become for it. Sometimes anything, sometimes anyone. It poses questions about the distorting power of expectation, when there is too much, when there is none – and questions about our participation in that distortion. And then, more love, the gorgeous speculative cor...

Kiese Laymon joins the Reckon interview to discuss buying back the rights to his first two books and releasing new revised editions.

Dear every single Black author who dropped a book today,

Zakiya Dalila Harris makes a thrilling debut with The Other Black Girl, journalist Mike Rothschild takes on QAnon, New Yorker writer Sheldon Pearce assembles a Tupac oral history, and more books to read in June.