Beyond the Door of No Return
David Diop. New York: FSG, 2023. The first 112 pages are very good but the 131 pages after that are the best fiction I’ve read in recent memory. Like nothing since Chatwin’s Viceroy of Ouidah and I’m in endless admiration of the author’s accomplishment. In gorgeous translation. A new book. I don’t sell new books […]
I Need A Dollar
Back in 2012, Kahlil Joseph asked if I’d sit in on this. 4:17 into it there we are in Jumel Terrace Books, which is still there but nobody else is. The shop is still there, open by appointment, but since 2015 it’s been mostly occupied by short-term rentals that mostly came through AirBnB, which has […]
A Harlem Poetry Lesson
Amanda Gorman Sees Us Learning to Love Through Loss | Glamour 2021 Woman of The Year. Glamour chose Jumel Terrace Books to showcase the poetess reading as well as their photo feature. A couple of nights later I watched Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy’s attempt to act out Dorothy Thompson and Sinclair Lewis’s relation in […]
Jumel Terrace B&B
Life Turns Man Up & Down
The Private Library