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Articles in July-August 2004 issue of Black Issues Book Review

• Cultural rhythms of summer reading
  by William E. Cox
• High season for book fairs and festivals: Midsummer's Harlem Book Fair highlights a year-round calendar of events
  by Bernadette Adams Davis
• Black giants among the boys of summer: Hank Aaron's 715th home run, Richie Allen of the '64 Phillies, and the pride of the Negro League
  by Art Rust, Jr.
• Unsung heroes: my sole desire was to write a book on black veterans using their words, to pay tribute to soldiers, sailors and nurses who had never gotten recognition
  by Yvonne Latty
• Quitting America: The Departure of a Black Man From His Native Land
  by Kai Wright
• Willimena Rules! Rule Book #2: How to Fish for Trouble
  by Suzanne Rust
• Flying off the shelves
• To everything a season
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Black arts to the tenth power: living legend Sonia Sanchez is the literary headliner in the 10th season of the 10-day National Black Arts Festival in Atlanta
  by TaRessa Stovall
• Two icons of musical genius: Mary Lou Williams sought the sacred; Marvin Gaye probed the world, the flesh and the Devil
  by Joy Duckett Cain
• The vision to build wealth: a financial journalist deconstructs the making of a media mogul
  by Susan McHenry
• Love in the Driest Season: a Family Memoir
  by Jackie Jones
• Jason & Kyra
  by Erica O. Dolland
• Lighting up lives
  by Jackie Hardrick
• Writing while white … An unprecedented number of black characters inhabit today's mainstream fiction best-seller lists, but few of them are created by black authors
  by Earni Young
• Out, no doubt: today's black gay and lesbian poets proudly proclaim their identities and show their varying talents to an increasingly receptive public
  by Reginald Harris
• Bone to Pick: Of Forgiveness Reconciliation, Reparation and Revenge
  by Khalil Abdullah
• Post-Soul Nation: The Explosive, Contradictory, Triumphant, and Tragic 1980's as Experienced by African Americans
  by Fred Lindsey
• Shooter
  by Elise Virginia Ward
• Celebrating folk art and poetry
  by Susan Flamm
• Paving the way to publishing success: hard-won wisdom from authors who established their careers on the self-publishing platform
  by Victoria Christopher Murray
• Documenting a black gay and lesbian literary canon: for four years, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture has been compiling an archive from underground, small press and self-published work—and the rest is history in the making
  by Kai Wright
• A Right Worthy Grand Mission: Maggie Lena Walker and the Quest for Black Economic Empowerment
  by Janus Adams
• Booker T. Washington and Black Progress: Up From Slavery 100 Years Later
  by Fred Lindsey
• I Shook Up the World: The Incredible Life of Muhammad Ali
  by Elise Virginia Ward
• Call for submissions
• Living the dream through life's challenges: lessons from Bishop Tutu, a successful African American businessman and other diverse followers of Dr. King
  by Angela P. Dodson
• How to market black gay and lesbian books: Southern California's Matais Books relies on the power of community and the appeal of a literary salon
  by Matais Pouncil
• Cooking With Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics
  by Dan Holly
• Soul on Bikes: The East Bay Dragons MC and the Black Biker Set
  by Nathan Davis
• It's Test Day, Tiger Turcotte
• P. Diddy fills the house
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Doing Business by the Good Book: 52 Lessons on Success Straight From the Bible
  by Kristin Henning
• Recommended bookstores
• Meet Me at the Theresa: The Story of Harlem's Most Famous Hotel
  by Herb Boyd
• Black Fiction's great griot master: John Oliver Killens ushered in a new era of the African American novel in 1954 and subsequently mentored a whole generation of black fiction talent. So why is most of his work out of print?
  by Keith Gilyard
• The Gospel Cinderella
• Deals
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Open My Eyes, Open My Soul: Celebrating Our Common Humanity
  by Lynnette C. Velasco
• Haiti's eloquent daughter: in the bicentennial year of the conflict-ridden land of her birth, Edwidge Danticat lives in Miami's "Little Haiti" and continues to write about "those things that haunt me."
  by Marjorie Valbrun
• Underground Codes: Race Crime, and Related Fires
  by Kalyn Johnson
• Atlanta's August Book Club confab: Curtis Bunn's National Book Club Conference convenes for its second year
  by Pat Houser
• A Wild Cowboy
• Signings & sightings
• Mother Africa's hospitality
  by Daphne Muse
• The Dew Breaker
  by Marjorie Valbrun
• Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a Revolutionary
  by C. Gerald Fraser
• Watch for the DeBerry & Grant contest winner
• Flower Girl Butterflies
• Conversations with a post modern sister: actress-comedian Aisha Tyler is distinctive among celebrtiy authors: she wrote her own book proposal and her own book!
  by Pamela K. Johnson
• Celebrating the greatest
  by Daphne Muse
• Strange lives and loves left behind: a season for fictional debuts and some rather unusual story lines
  by Mary N. Oluonye
• One Man's Castle: Clarence Darrow in Defense of the American Dream
  by Herb Boyd
• What's the Hurry, Fox? And Other Animal Stories
  by Suzanne Rust
• Other titles of interest
• Hot summer reads: something hot, not too heavy: sizzling selections for summer: the books everybody will be reading and talking about this summer, or at least the ones the publishers hope will catch fire
• The fabric of her life
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Ten years of sizzling chocolate kisses and lasting love: now under BET Books, Arabesque celebrates a decade as black romance publisher
  by Diane Patrick
• Without Regard to Race: The Other Martin Robison Delany
  by Robin M. Dasher-Alston
• Joe Louis, My Champion
  by Suzanne Rust
• Blue-ribbon choices: a librarian-recommended, kid-approved summer reading list
  by Fran Ware