Part homage to the characters Calhoun identified with and loved, part celebration of the pop culture—television, movies, music, video games—that influenced his childhood, Piccolo Is Black: A Memoir of Race, Religion, and Pop Culture is an honest, thought-provoking, and often hilarious coming-of-age memoir that celebrates Black identity in America.
Read MoreFollowing the release of Bands do BK: A Guide to Brooklyn, by Bands, for Everyone, author Sam Sumpter sits down at the Radio Free Brooklyn studio with a selection of featured bands for a series of short and sweet (and frequently funny) interviews covering some of the key themes featured in the book. Featuring Tea Eater, A Very Special Episode, and Mary Shelley.
Read More"Jaimie Kelton and Robin Hopkins are helping to empower a whole new generation of LGBTQ people, specifically LGBTQ women, as they navigate their journey towards parenthood" - Sarah Kate Ellis, President and CEO of GLADD.
Read MoreWith clear-headed storytelling and attention to detail, Adkins adds an important voice capturing the mundanity, brutality, fear, boredom and banality of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. When the importance of poetry is questioned, the poems in Dispatches from the FOB by Paul David Adkins provide an unequivocal answer.
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