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Dave Pilkey's latest Cat Kid Comic Club installment, 'On Purpose,' is the bestselling book in the country for second week in a row. Plus a pair of celebrity debuts – Janelle Monáe's 'The Memory Librarian' and Randy Rainbow's 'Playing with Myself' – hit our lists.
Singer/Activist Janelle Monae teams up with four other SFF writers for an Afrofuturistic expansion of her 2018 album Dirty Computer with "The Memory Librarian!"
The Artists Dismantling the Barriers Between Rap and Poetry https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/04/t-magazine/rap-hip-hop-poetry.html The Artists Dismantling the Barriers Between Rap and Poetry Though the two forms remain distinct, today’s rising stars in both genres are creating a shared literary ideal that gives voice to the Black and brown experience. To create these letterpress posters, the Brooklyn-based artist Dread Scott chose lines and lyrics from contemporary poets and rappers featured in the accompanying essay. Here, Scott’s “slave grammar Sampled” (2021), inspired by Nate Marsh...
These works, recommended by local authors and bookstore owners, remind us just how special Washington is.
30 of the Best Art and Design Books of 2020 Got some shelf space? We hope you have a lot of it. Because the amount of great design books that were published this year is daunting. (Really—as I glance to my left, I see a teetering column of hardcovers that’s a Darwin Award in the making.) But to start: disclaimer time! When we write “The Best Books of 2020,” what we really mean is “our favorite design books that we came across in 2020.” Though many publications might be hesitant to admit it, lists like this are wildly subjective, and there are no doubt brilliant books that we did...