We are pleased to announce that this Sunday, January 23, 2011 at 9pm EST NAACP Image Award Nominated author, Jabari Asim will be our guest for #blacklitchat Taste of Honey Tweet Chat on Twitter!!!!!!!!!!
So grab your laptop, grab your PJs, grab your galpals and gents(husbands, brothers, boyfriends, men bibliophiles), then lets have an online book chat with me[Dee Stewart,] Bernadette Davis, and Jabari Asim.
Jabari Asim is an associate professor of writing, literature and publishing at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts., and since August 2007, has been the Editor-in-Chief of The Crisis magazine, a journal of politics, ideas and culture published by theNAACP and founded by W.E.B. Du Bois in 1910. Asim spent eleven years (1996–2007) at the Washington Post, where he served as deputy editor of the book review section, children's book editor, poetry editor, and editor of the Washington Post's Education Review. Asim is a former vice president of the National Book Critics Circle.
Asim is also the acclaimed author of What Obama Means, (William Morrow) and controversial The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn’t, And Why (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.)He is editor of Not Guilty: Twelve Black Men Speak Out on the Law, Justice and Life, published in November 2001.
He is a frequent public speaker and commentator who has appeared on The Today Show, The Colbert Report, Hannity & Colmes, the Tavis Smiley Show, the Diane Rehm show and countless other programs. He has lectured at many of the nation’s finest universities, including University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Northwestern University, Syracuse University and the University of Florida.
Asim's reviews and cultural criticism also have been published in The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, the Phoenix Gazette, Los Angeles Times Book Review, Salon.com, the Detroit News, The Village Voice, Hungry Mind Review, XXL, Code, Emerge, Essence, Africana.com and BlackElectorate.com.
Asim’s debut work of adult fiction, A Taste of Honey, is a collection of sixteen connected stories told from multiple perspectives which take place in a fictional Midwestern town called Gateway in 1968, published by Broadway Books in March 2010. It was featured in the March 2010 issue of Essence Magazine. Go On Girl! Book Club selected A Taste of Honey for its 2011 Reading List for May. In January 2011, A Taste of Honey was nominated for Outstanding Literary Work - Fiction, 42nd NAACP Image Awards
In short Asim is a great host to kick off our New Year!
So if you haven’t gotten A Taste of Honey, yet. You can here or if you’re the kind of discerning reader who must like the author before you purchase, then join us Sunday night on Twitter. You will not be disappointed.
What is #BlackLitChat?
It's a stream of tweets about books by Black[including Pan-African, African-American, Brit, Caribbean, Canadian Black, etc.] authors in real time during a specified time. Our time for this chat is Sunday, January 23, 2011 from 9 PM EST.
More about #BlackLitChat is here at my co-host Bernadette Davis’ Black Books Blog.
How does it Work? 3 Easy Steps
1. Get a Twitter account, or login, or remember your Twitter Password at
http://www.twitter.com .
2. Join the chat by clicking this link .http://twebevent.com/blacklitchat
3. Now login with your Twitter Password.
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