Saturday, May 4, 2013

May Book of the Month
 
 
Book Description:  We last saw Easy in 2007’s Blonde Faith, fighting for his life after his car plunges over a cliff. True to form, the tough WWII veteran survives, and soon his murderous sidekick Mouse has him back cruising the mean streets of L.A., in all their psychedelic 1967 glory, to look for a young black man, Evander “Little Green” Noon, who disappeared during an acid trip. Fueled by an elixir called Gator’s Blood, brewed by the conjure woman Mama Jo, Easy experiences a physical, spiritual, and emotional resurrection, but peace and love soon give way to murder and mayhem. Written with Mosley’s signature grit and panache, this engrossing and atmospheric mystery is not only a trip back in time, it is also a tough-minded exploration of good and evil, and of the power of guilt and redemption. Once again, Easy asserts his reign over the City of (Fallen) Angels.
 
Join Cyrus Webb host of Conversation Pieces with monthly guest Charles Clark; as they discuss Walter Mosley's "Little Green".  It all happens on May 25th @ 1pm est. on Blogtalk Radio.  






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Sunday, April 21, 2013

April is National Poetry Month


 
Sugar-Tooth Confessions by Detrick Hughes

"Here we find song shaped of muscle and earth.  In his new collection, Detrick Hughes offers us a textured voice, hovering at those "jagged edges" of the body, "beneath sorrow", "beneath lust." True to the blues tradition, these poems fuse romance, tradegy, humor, and pain.  Sugar-Tooth Confessions conjures the honeyed shadows of the Sugar Shack and the sobering speech of prayer.  This slow-drag between the sacred and the profane is unapologetic and timeless"

-Amaud Jamaul Johnson, author of Red Summer (Tupelo Press 2006)


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