For the love of books
Disney + is getting ramped up for their original Marvel tie-in shows to be released on the platform like WandaVision which will drop in January, Loki and Hawkeye. It has been confirmed that Hailee Steinfeld will play Kate Bishop along side Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye in the new show, which has begun filming this week.
I had the privilege of speaking with acclaimed Black author L.L. McKinney about her work and what it means to create inclusive, real and tangible characters to help give more of a voice in the fantasy genre to Black writers and writers of color. We talked about her series A Blade So Black, her writing journey and career so far and she gave me just a little a bit of info on the third book in the series, A Crown So Cursed, coming out in 2021. Today, is Nov, 26, the original publishing date of the classic novel, Alice’s Adventures in …
Netflix’s Dash & Lily starts with a shy girl and a jaded guy with a love of literature, a red notebook and a challenge.
For our last Literary F*ck boy of the month, I wanted to pick someone not many people may know but who is as equally handsome and has many f*ck boy tendencies, Howl from Howl’s Moving Castle. This is for all of my anime boyfriends folks out there! I fell in love with Howl when I watched the movie, Howl’s Moving Castle. But this handsome wizard started out from a series of books written by Diana Wynne Jones. There is a bit of a disparity between movie Howl and book Howl but what rings true through all of Howl’s appearances …
For this 5×5 we’ve spoken with five incredible horror writers of color which include Marc L. Abbott, Linda D. Addison, Stephen Graham Jones, Rena Mason and Steven Van Patten.
