Award-winning author Zadie Smith offers a healthy cosign of essayist Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah in a recent piece written by the… Read More
The original hip hop drummer continues his rise as one of the best hip hop authors. Questlove has formally announced… Read More
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It seems that "Happy" will never, ever leave us. Pharrell has reportedly inked a deal with the Penguin-owned publisher Putnam… Read More
Your Face In Mine, Jess Row’s fictional examination of racial difference, is one of the most quietly unsettling novels of… Read More
Author Lance Scott Walker has teamed up with Sinecure Books and OG photographer Peter Beste to release Houston Rap, a… Read More
In Actor. Writer. Whatever (Essays On My Rise To The Top Of The Bottom Of The Entertainment Industry), a revealing collection… Read More
It seems, at first, like an unusual pairing: Infamous, a multi-media company co-owned by Albert “Prodigy” Johnson of the Queens… Read More
Saturday before last, Prodigy of Mobb Deep dropped in on the Harlem Book Fair, sitting in conversation with Okayplayer literary columnist (and… Read More
Get ready to Read A Book, Jamaican-British novelist Zadie Smith is about to write a sci-fi novel. Her debut White Teeth was met with… Read More
Prodigy, 1/2 of classic Queensbridge rap duo Mobb Deep, just published his second book, titled H.N.I.C. after his 2000 album of the same name. After… Read More
Questlove's new memoir Mo' Meta Blues hits bookshelves--virtual and otherwise--next Tuesday, June 18th and even though we already read the… Read More
In a recent announcement from publishing house Spiegel & Grau, Beastie Boys Mike D and Ad-Rock are committing their legacy… Read More
Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson took a break from his increasingly busy schedule to discuss his forthcoming memoir "Mo' Meta Blues" during… Read More
"The sun set in my mind this evening / 4 someone who said they would die 4 me / they… Read More