Coffee and Books: Mystery and History
My reading this morning goes from a contemporary setting in Wyoming to 16th century Florence, Italy; from craggy sheriff Walt Longmire to Alessandro de’ Medici with the books AN OBVIOUS FACT by Craig Johnson, Johnson’s 12th Walt Longmire and THE BLACK PRINCE OF FLORENCE by Catherine Fletcher.
Coffee and Books: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire
This Sunday I’m taping an interview with Karl Jacoby, author of THE STRANGE CAREER OF WILLIAM ELLIS: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire. KAZI Book Review contributor Evelyn Martin Anderson recommended the book and we’ll be jointly interviewing him.
Novel About Black Ballerina and Crime Fiction Picks of the Month
Jacob Grovey, author of the new novel DANCE OF THE BROKEN and BookPeople’s crime fiction coordinator Scott Montgomery and bookseller Molly Odintz are today’s live in studio guests at 12:30 p.m. CST on KAZI Book Review on KAZI 88.7 FM.
DANCE OF THE BROKEN tells the poignant and inspirational story of a young black girl who dreams of being a ballerina, despite society’s opinion that she’s cut from the wrong cloth.
Scott and Molly will be recommending new crime fiction novels and short stories for listeners to read:
Scott’s Crime Fiction Picks
1. Mississippi Noir edited by Tom Franklin http://www.bookpeople.com/book/9781617752285
2. St. Louis Noir edited by Scott Phillips http://www.bookpeople.com/book/9781943818006
3. Survivors Will Be Shot Again by Bill Crider http://www.bookpeople.com/book/9781250078520
Molly’s Crime Fiction Picks
1. You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott http://www.bookpeople.com/book/9780316231077
2. The Dollhouse by Fiona Davis http://www.bookpeople.com/book/9781101984994
3. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch http://www.bookpeople.com/book/9781101904220
Jacob Grovey
Molly Odintz and Scott Montgomery
Author Discusses The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools on KAZI Book Review
The Monique Morris interview on her book on the criminalization of black girls in school airs Monday, August 22 at 8 s.m. CST/9 a.m. on KAZI 88.7 FM. In her new book, PUSHOUT, Monique W. Morris, chronicles the experiences of black girls across the country whose intricate lives are misunderstood, highly judged—by teachers, administrators, and the justice system—and degraded by the very institutions charged with helping them flourish. Morris shows how, despite obstacles, stigmas, stereotypes, and despair, black girls still find ways to breathe remarkable dignity into their lives in classrooms, juvenile facilities, and beyond.
Dr. Morris is the Co-Founder and President of The National Black Women’s Justice Institute, and an author and social justice scholar with more than 20 years of professional and volunteer experience in the areas of education, civil rights, juvenile and social justice.
Andrew Nagorski Talks About the NAZI Hunters
After the Nuremberg trials and the start of the Cold War, most of the victors in World War II lost interest in prosecuting Nazi war criminals. Many of the lower-ranking perpetrators quickly blended in with the millions who were seeking to rebuild their lives in a new Europe, while those who felt most at risk fled the continent. In Andrew Nagorski’s new book, THE NAZI HUNTERS, focuses on the small band of men and women who refused to allow their crimes to be forgotten—and who were determined to track them down to the furthest corners of the earth.
Tune in at 8 a.m. CST Monday to KAZI 88.7 FM for my interview with Andrew Nagorski.
Andrew Nagorski is an award-winning journalist and author who spent more than three decades as a foreign correspondent and editor for Newsweek. He is also the author of Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power.
Coffee & Books: The Hemingway Thief by Shaun Harris
If a first draft of a novel by Ernest Hemingway ended up in your hands and clues to the location of a suitcase of unpublished writings by Hemingway, what would you do? Further sweetening the plot of THE HEMINGWAY THIEF by Shaun Harris, is that the protagonist, Henry Cooper, is a successful romance novelist who writes under an assumed name, Toulouse Velour, and his horde of female fans think Toulouse is a woman.
I’ll be taping an interview with Shsun Harris and I’ll be sure to ask him if he has been writing romance novels under an assumed name.
Coffee and Spatializing Blackness
SPATIALIZING BLACKNESS: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity by Rashad Shabazz, an associate professor in the School ofSocial Transformation at Arizona State, will be featured on KAZI Book Review in September.
Shabazz argues that from the start of the great migration to Chicago, carceral powers literally and figuratively created a prison-like environment to contain African Americans within the so-called Black Belt on the city’s South Side.
