book expo and calabash

so i plan on writing recaps about both book expo and calabash (coming up this weekend) for my blog. but i may wait until the site relaunch which is really days away.

but what can i say in the meantime. The African-American Pavillion was definitely soooo much better than last year. The programming on both Thursday, Friday (sorry wasn't there Saturday but know there was stuff going on) was well put together.

Thursday had the keynote speech by Queen Latifah who was great. I want to go into more detail about her talk because she really said some things that I was feeling regarding reading, young people, and street fiction. Her new children's book, Queen of the Scene, drops this fall. Naturally, it rhymes. Man I think Queen reflects the best of hip-hop: smart, down, diversified, and succesful.

Okay more to come...in the meantime peep the press release.