My Story “Thirsty” named Best 50 start on Glimmer Train

 

 

 

In the apartment below us, I’m sure those two people are killing themselves. They are Nigerian, I’m sure. I know this because I’m Nigerian, or at least my parents are, and I recognize the music they play…..

My Story “A Little Expensive” is on Word Riot

It began with a postcard-sized flyer. In large Arial font, it read: Do you want to be a writer? Do you have a story you’re dying to tell? Then join the Montclair Writing Workshop located in the heart of vibrant downtown Montclair. The back: a black and white photo of the alumni of the program. They were huddled together as if arranged for a yearbook photo — tallest in the back, shortest, kneeling in the front. They were white men and women, grinning in a manner that was both scary and inviting. Half of them wore glasses — large, plastic frames that loomed over their faces like planets, or smaller cat-like frames that cut just beneath their eyebrows. I squinted at the picture. It seemed to me that they were in someone’s bedroom. What appeared to be a bed loomed on the far right; a nightstand, and clothes hung across a curtain rod. Large italics across the bottom of the picture read: Learn from the best. Be the best.

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Michel Gondry = crown.

i’m back

happy new year!

i havent been blogging lately cause well..i’ve been real stressed. but i may have some real exciting news in like 2 weeks.

but in the meantime. here’s my new addiction.

THE COOL KIDS!

it’s international, baby.

Booker + Obama =)

 

Today, I met one of my idols in life: Cory Booker. I shook his hand and talked to him shortly. I thanked him for all the work he has done here in Newark. I admire his strength, perservance, and intelligence. He has an extremely hard and thankless job here in one of our country’s most challenged city. Like our next president, Booker has made the long awaited renaissance of this city palpable. Every time, I hear him speak, I feel inspired to do something meaningful with my life. Kudos to Cory Booker and I pray for his protection.

Dear Chanel Duncan,

This has your name all over it.

For the rest of you, you need some more Kanye and autotune in your life

But this is for Chanel.

Upcoming NYC Bookstore Events

Oct 26- STEEL DRUMING at Hue Man Bookstore in Harlem- This is the story of seven passionate and enormously talented young musicians from the Hamilton Hill Street Drum Band who took the Apollo Theater by storm after being scouted and won the competition in a final face-off for the Super Top Dog show. Join these young men and get a taste of their talent. Includes CD. 3:00pm

Oct 27- Michel Gondry, director of Eternal Sunshine and the Spotless Mind, Be Kind Rewind, Science of Sleep and other gems, will be at Strand! He will be presenting his new book “You’ll Like This Film because You’re In it.” 7:00-8:30pm

Oct 30- Maya Angelou will be reading from her new book Letter to my Daughter at the Barnes and Noble in Union Square 7:00pm

Nov 1 – The Housing Works Bookstore will be having a sale in which you can save 30% off of all books and merchandise!

Nov 7- Sex Worker Literati at KGB Bar- Spend the night with three local authors who insert the term Sex Worker Literati deep into the 21st century American vernacular. Take a peek into the lives of desperate housewives gone bad and desperate businessmen gone worse. 7-9pm

In other (positive) Newark news…

Go Newark Restaurant Week will be kicking off November 3 lasting until Novemeber 13. There are over 30 restaurants participating and you save AT LEAST 15 percent during the week. I’mma be there!

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Greetings from Newark, NJ

in the United States of America.

“When I came in this morning to clean the blood up, I said, ‘You know what, life goes on. Shut down because something happened to somebody?’” said McCray, the basketball coach at Central High School. “It’s like you get used to it. It happened. It’s over. Let’s move on. But it’s sad you get used to stuff like this.”

 

 

“My arms are scraped up from a shooting a couple of months ago, from rolling and diving,” Hall said. “This is what you got to do to escape.

“This is the ghetto,” he said. “Where are you going to run? It’s like a war.”

 

A 13-year-old girl is in stable condition tonight after being shot in the cheek in Newark’s East Ward, according to Newark police.The shooting took place at about 7:40 p.m. near the intersection of Parkhurst Street and Pennsylvania Avenue.

 

Two men have been shot, one fatally, in Newark, authorities said today.Police responding to the shootings shortly after 10:30 p.m. Saturday found a 30-year-old man shot in the head and chest, authorities said. He was taken from the scene at Central Avenue and South Ninth Street to University Hospital, where he died from his injuries.