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Is There Such A Thing As Nostalgia For BIPOC Authors?

Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass, Meg Medina, The Sun is Also a Star, Nicola Yoon, A Guide Book for the Newly Sired Desi Vampire, Samira Ahmed Maya Angelou said it best when she said, “I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition–about what we can endure,Continue reading “Is There Such A Thing As Nostalgia For BIPOC Authors?”

Wine Writing Is Dead

Karen MacNeil gives lecture on the question of where are all the wine journalists and is wine journalism dead. As a fiction writer I’ve known for many years fiction writing about wine has been in huge decline but is it dead?

Black Authors Statistics – WordsRated

Black Authors Statistics – WordsRated — Read on wordsrated.com/black-authors-statistics/ Being a Black male writer is more than a hurdle, it’s a mountain that I’m ready to climb.

Thieves Steal Rare Wines from Paris’ Legendary La Tour d’Argent

More than 80 bottles, including Burgundy’s Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, went missing from the restaurant’s cellar, perhaps during recent renovations. — Read on http://www.winespectator.com/articles/thieves-steal-rare-wines-from-legendary-paris-restaurant Sounds like a premise for my next book.

How a Craft Beer Company Is Making Black History in Harlem | Inc.com

Julian Riley, the founder of Harlem Blue, is ready to open the first brewery in Harlem since Prohibition. — Read on http://www.inc.com/farrell-evans/how-craft-beer-company-making-black-history-harlem.html

How to Attract Younger Drinkers to Wine

10 sommeliers share insights on how wineries and wine pros can encourage a love for wine among Millennial and Gen Z consumers — Read on http://www.winespectator.com/articles/genz-millenials-wine-industry As usual the old guard is terrified that soon they will be irrelevant and this time it’s the wine industry. Similar to other blame games pointed at Millennials andContinue reading “How to Attract Younger Drinkers to Wine”