Urban Lit is DEAD!

Urban Lit is DEAD! by Joey Pinkney Yep, I said it… Urban Lit is dead. Done. Finito. Flatline… Who am I to say that? I don’t have the same status in the Urban Lit industry as Nas has when he said the same thing for his music. I don’t have to. I read a lot … Continue reading Urban Lit is DEAD!

Lexus is paying urban lit authors and rappers! Psyche!!

I came across interesting Tayari Jones post about a Galleycat post that Tayari found interesting. Lexus is paying (a select group of) authors to write short stories about the Lexus IS F. The 2008 Lexus Original Fiction Series “In The Belly of The Beast” is about a young couple traveling in the car from Brooklyn … Continue reading Lexus is paying urban lit authors and rappers! Psyche!!

Inside the Literary Mind of… Patrick Fellers, author of The Winter Wolf Arises: A Piran Golawaya Novel

Joey Pinkney Exclusive Author Interview Inside the Literary Mind of… Patrick Fellers, author of “The Winter Wolf Arises: A Piran Golawaya Novel” (Esquire Publishing) JP: The adventure of writing can be an interesting teacher. What have you learned either about the process of writing this saga or about this storyline that you didn’t know and … Continue reading Inside the Literary Mind of… Patrick Fellers, author of The Winter Wolf Arises: A Piran Golawaya Novel