http://www.earlyword.com/2009/12/15/pws-afro-picks-controversy/ The Publisher | Librarian Connection Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:24:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.earlyword.com/2009/12/15/pws-afro-picks-controversy/#comment-22136 Alyss Dixson Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:16:19 +0000 http://www.earlyword.com/?p=22105#comment-22136 Jacqueline Luckett's debut fiction SEARCHING FOR TINA TURNER doesn't get a mention above - I guess an empowerment story from the 40+ crowd isn't high- brow enuff? - and I think it was I'll- served by the tongue-in-cheek fumble by PW. I hope the next list they do for literary books takes an equally riotous turn. Who takes black womens writing seriously these days? Not the purveyors or pushers of the "street lit" moniker (and for its day wouldn't Petry's THE STREET or THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X have landed betwixt and between?), if editors don't demand more of the storytellers don't blame it on the genre blame it on the publishing houses. And PW's lame-duck cover is surely a reflection of this lack of esteem. Jacqueline Luckett’s debut fiction SEARCHING FOR TINA TURNER doesn’t get a mention above – I guess an empowerment story from the 40+ crowd isn’t high- brow enuff? – and I think it was I’ll- served by the tongue-in-cheek fumble by PW. I hope the next list they do for literary books takes an equally riotous turn. Who takes black womens writing seriously these days? Not the purveyors or pushers of the “street lit” moniker (and for its day wouldn’t Petry’s THE STREET or THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X have landed betwixt and between?), if editors don’t demand more of the storytellers don’t blame it on the genre blame it on the publishing houses. And PW’s lame-duck cover is surely a reflection of this lack of esteem.

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