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Celebrate Highly Anticipated Debut Novel from Musician & Educator, Tyriek White - We Are A Haunting! Left Bank Books presents highly anticipated debut author, musician, and educator, Tyriek White, who will discuss the novel Kiese Laymon describes as "Astonishing", We Are a Haunting, in-store and on YouTube Live June 5th at 7pm! White will be in conversation with St. Louis poet, journalist, former labor and student organizer Jacqui Germain!

How young is too young to talk to your kids about rap? For a Louder co-host, the arrival of a Biggie-loving toddler changed everything about how he hears hip-hop — especially women's place within it.

How young is too young to talk to your kids about rap? For a Louder co-host, the arrival of a Biggie-loving toddler changed everything about how he hears hip-hop — especially women's place within it.

New TV shows like “Single Drunk Female” and comedy specials like “John Mulaney: Baby J” explore the mundane complications of life as a recovering addict.

Cancelled people get profiled again, Christopher Nolan better have good lunch on his set, one NYT opinion writer needs to log off more, a film critic introduces a new reviewing rubric and a guy needs to stop eating weed gummies.

Is it just me, or was 2018 a particularly outstanding year for Southern books? From Kiese Laymon’s incendiary memoir “Heavy” to the posthumous publish

Celebrate underrepresented voices through BIPOC Book Fest's annual showcase of literary works and panels featuring Black, Indigenous, people of color, and other creatives, taking place at Asia Society Texas.

Just Buffalo Literary Center announced the 2023-24 season of its BABEL author series, featuring Jhumpa Lahiri on Oct. 6; Michelle Zauner on Nov. 9; John Irving on March 21, 2024; and Kiese Laymon on April 25. Season subscriptions for the series, which takes place at Kleinhans Music Hall, are now available for purchase at justbuffalo.org.

Award-winning writer Kiese Laymon boasted about spending time at the Mississippi-based HBCU, starting his writing journey and soaking in the culture.

A frequent headliner in this country and the United States, Lenox connected with audiences and found humour in stories of his personal struggles with deteriorating vision and eventual blindness