Black Lit Book Group

Founded in October 2009, Greenlight Bookstore is a general independent bookstore in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, which hosts literary events in-store and with partner venues. The mission of Greenlight Bookstore is to create welcoming spaces for discovery, conversation, and connection around books, through curation, programming and service that provides for the needs and interests of our customers and highlights creative work we love and value, based on a commitment to improving equity and sustainability in our company and our community. Through knowledgeable staff, curated book selection, community partnerships, and a robust e-commerce website as well as a beautiful bookstore spaces, Greenlight combines the best traditions of the neighborhood bookstore with a forward-looking sensibility. Greenlight has garnered local, national, and international press coverage for its innovative startup model and its continuing success. More information and details, along with book purchase options, can be found atgreenlightbookstore.com.

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Our Black Lit group meets monthly to amplify the works of past and present Black voices of all genres!

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Black Lit Book Group with Micah Discusses My Soul Looks Back by Jessica B. Harris Led by Greenlight bookseller Micah, with special appearances from fellow Greenlight booksellers, our Black Lit Book Group meets monthly to amplify the works of past and present Black voices of all genres. All reading frequencies are welcome! For May, the group discusses My Soul Looks Back, a captivating memoir by award-winning writer Jessica B. Harris. With “simmering warmth” (The New York Times), Harris paints evocative portraits of her illustrious friends: James Baldwin, as he read aloud an early draft of If Beale Street Could Talk, Maya Angelou cooking in her California kitchen, and Toni Morrison relaxing at Baldwin’s house in Provence; her role as a theater critic and editor at then-burgeoning Essence magazine; star-studded parties in the South of France; drinks at Mikell’s, a hip West Side club... At the center, is Harris’s relationship with Sam Floyd, who introduced her to Baldwin, his best friend. More than a memoir of friendship and first love, My Soul Looks Back is a carefully crafted, intimately understood homage to a bygone era and the people that made it so remarkable.

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