What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
(Decades later, Stevie Wonder was also the most wondrous concert I've ever attended.)

I'll be joining Dr. Martha S. Jones, The Trouble of Color, along with Johnisha Matthews Levi, Numbers Up: Cracking the Code of an American Family, and Dr. James B. Wells, Because: A CIA Coverup & A Son's Odyssey To Find The Father He Never Knew, for the Kentucky Book Festival.
See you Nov 1st!

Looking forward to what's sure to be a powerful conversation with @megpillow.bsky.social in Louisville, Kentucky at the beautiful 21C! DM me for tickets.

Thank you @literaryhub.bsky.social for helping readers find this story.

Book pub day! I never imagined that American Bloodlines would be coming into a moment that looks like a partisan civil war pushed by a president, but here we are. Really excited to get on the road to be in conversation with these brilliant women. Hope to see you out there!

Thrilled to join in a conversation with @megpillow.bsky.social for my first book launch event in Kentucky, in Louisville, at the 21C Museum Hotel. This one is going to be like going home, hosted by my sisters, and full of connection to my community. @kentuckypress.bsky.social

After I wrote this last week, I learned the term, “jawboning,” when the government uses its power — or the threat of it — to indirectly bully individuals, institutions, or organizations into doing their bidding when it can’t flat-out force them.

Big ups to Margaret Atwood killing the book ban in Alberta with her sword of words. Or more specifically, a short story placed on X. Maybe the people of that province should hire her to kill the proposed secession too?

Amazing to head up to beautiful western Canada to record an potent interview with Writers Radio. Writers, check out this 24/7 broadcast station and podcast that operates as a nonprofit. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

Lynch culture is still alive in America. And in Trump’s courts.
www.courier-journal.com/story/opinio...

From the town where I was born, Owensboro, Kentucky, this interview on how the impact of the last public execution in America, the legal lynching of Rainey Bethea, continues among residents of that Southern town, and nationally. www.owensborotimes.com/features/202... @kentuckypress.bsky.social

Feeling kinship with writers of the South, and inspired as ever by historian and author Emily Bingham's work in Kentucky. #booksky

Returning to an old place is nostalgic and an agitation, all at once. Reckoning with perceptions of a place and its past, on my Substack. #kentuckywoman open.substack.com/pub/sonyalea...

Been re-reading this one most years much of my adult life.
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
💙📚
#BookSky
#Books
#BookChallenge