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Troy
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Username: Troy
Post Number: 325
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 10:15 am: | 
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This is a very interesting audio program. Moderated by Farai Chideya (http://authors.aalbc.com/faraichideya.htm) Farai is knowledgeable and asked good questions.
I wish a bookseller was involved. Nick said bookstores do not have a conscious. Someone should have been there to challenge that statement
Listen to the program:
Roundtable: Black Authors in Spotlight
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5225091
News & Notes with Ed Gordon, February 20, 2006· Black authors are enjoying increasing book sales and greater attention. Farai Chideya hosts a roundtable on the past, present and future of black literature. Guests include author Dewit Gilmore, who writes under the name Relentless; Malaika Adero, senior editor for Atria Books; and Nick Chiles, editor-in-chief of travel magazine Odyssey Couleur.
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Urbanreviews
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Username: Urbanreviews
Post Number: 16
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 07:19 pm: |
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That was a very interesting program. After listening to this, Nick Chiles still sounds like he's mad because his own books aren't selling. It's funny how Nick said that he didn't have a problem with street fiction when Relentless and Malaika were present. But if you refer back to the NY Times article, it's evident that he does have a serious problem with it. Heck, he even called out some of the titles by name! He completely waffled on his opinion! He said on NPR that he didn't have a problem with the street lit being under the African American Fiction section. Rather, he has a problem with street fiction being the first thing you see in the section. That's not the impression I got from reading the NY Times article.
Just what IS his opinion???
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