Hello loyal Daddy’s Basement customers and friends,

2011 is rounding out quite nicely. Check out the exciting news and upcoming events from us.

Daddy’s Basement
327 Rogers Ave
Brooklyn NY 11225
347 770 8114

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Check out our recent interview!!

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And here is the flier for our next don’t-miss event on Friday Feb 4th @630 pm

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Feb 11th @ 630 pm

Truly Pertinent Questions – The Requiem is an amalgam of thought provoking questions and concerns that occupies the mind of an educated, eclectic black man living in a metropolis called – New York City. It is the story of a Jamaican, a soldier, an educator, an intellectual, an activist, and an agnostic as he muddles through salient questions that are in his heart and on his mind. These reflections regarding the mystics, the baffling, the sublime and the mundane, are his attempt to qualify the existential.

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DB’s Storytime: Friday’s at 1130am and 4pm with Ella Baker/Charles Romain Child Development Center at Medgar Evers College where we will feature surprise appearances by award winning children’s and YA authors!

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Our Jan 27th Book Club meeting was snowed out so we have rescheduled it for Feb 25th @ 630pm were we will discuss Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Please stop in and get your copy.

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And keep and eye out for our post on Shange’s upcoming author reading right here at DB.

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We are not done yet! We have even more literary heavy hitters coming soon to Daddy’s Basement:

Sonia Sanchez

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Donna Hill

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Poet Jericho Brown

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Elizabeth Nunez


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Ben Greenman

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And much more more literary meat for your weary bones…
Look out for event dates.

As mystical as music, Anton Nimblett and Moses T. Alexander Greene held court as they BLESSED us with their work. Authorship (is that a word?) and riffing don’t often go hand in hand but these talented wordsmiths showed the audience at Daddy’s Basement that music begins in the heart. Nimblett’s Sections of an Orange reads like a tall glass of cool water as he describes in poetic detail the protagonists journey back to his homeland of Trinidad. Greene followed up with a personal journey of realization and survival post heartbreak; detailing his memoir/self-help novel in a voice both eye opening and true. Both authors described hearing the other as inspirational enough to want to go a second time. We will definitely have these talented men back at DB, and soon!

Check out the recent news piece about Daddy’s Basement Bookstore tomorrow.
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Daddy’s Basement January Book club selection, Ntozake Shange’s “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf” Next meeting Thursday January 27th at 730pm. Wine and other refreshments.

Carolyn Jones

It was a night to remember in our December to Remember Reading Series as Professor Carolyn Jones read from her book of poetry and short stories, Marriage of My Minds Eye: Love Songs 1 and 2. DB set the mood just right as we surrounded our display of the sultry text with tea lights.  When we dimmed the lights you could hear the appreciative oohs and aaahs from the audience.  A little white wine and brie cheese only added to the romantic ambiance of the night.

Jones’ powerful strategy of less is more in her prose is meant to hand hold the reader.  Her goal is to instruct lovers on how to seduce and respect each other through words.  The poetic structure of Marriage is set as a call and response between an angelic man and woman.  The male ends each sexually charged phrase with the powerful line and call:  “Come to me” and the woman ends hers with the response: “Wait for me.” This love sonnet is at once unashamedly naked and mysteriously compelling.  It is to be read under covers in the privacy of two.

At $20 a piece, they are going fast so drop by Daddy’s Basement to get your copy today.  You can thank us later. *wink*

Elizabeth Nunez

Tonight was nothing short of amazing with Award Winning author Dr Elizabeth Nunez. The evening was as intimate as it was informative and breathtaking. Nunez took us on a journey of her novel Anna In-Between. What was supposed to be just a reading turned in a great conversation with one of the most coveted author on this side of town. The conversation began from the novel’s inception its completion. What started as something to do while waiting for her publisher to send her a proof for a completed novel turned into Anna In-Between. Nunez shared some very intimate details about her life specifically what motivated her to write this book.

The highlight of the night, however, turn out to be the conversation that followed the reading. Nunez held class as she explored everything from race, class, the caste system to the complexities of the relationship between different ethnic groups in the states.

As a special treat, Nunez has signed a few copies of what is left of her book at Daddy’s Basement Bookstore for those that wish to wrap it for that special someone in their life. (Video coming soon)

(f-l) Christopher Grant, Kekla Magoon, Shara Henry, DB's owner, Rita Williams-Garcia and Zetta Elliott (pic by Maisha Dang)

Last night Daddy’s Basement hosted four young adult novelists. Kekla Magoon author of The Rock and The River, Christopher Grant author of Teenie, Rita Williams-Garcia author of Jumped and One Crazy Summer and Zetta Elliott author of Bird and A Wish After Midnight. (video coming soon)

We cannot imagine wrapping anything else for the young adolescent(s) and teenager(s) in your life this holiday season other than these four books. These novels are informative, fun and are available at Daddy’s Basement Bookstore.

Here is a break down to help you choose which book to choose for that special person in your life:

For the teen that can’t stop asking about what it was like to be young and black in the ’60s:

Kekla Magoon’s The Rock and The River

Sam Childs, 13, is growing up in Chicago in 1968. His father is a civil rights activist, and the boy has been involved in peaceful demonstrations with his family. When he and his girlfriend, Maxie, witness the brutal beating of a friend at the hands of the police, his world begins to change dramatically. His 17-year-old brother brings a gun home and hides it in their shared room. Next thing Sam knows, Stick has run away from home and is involved with the Black Panther Party, whose philosophy his dad does not share. The brutality of the beating has wrought a change in Sam as well, and the good works he sees the Panthers doing in his neighborhood make him question his dad’s opinion.

Rita Williams-Garcia’s One Crazy Summer

It is 1968, and three black sisters from Brooklyn have been put on a California-bound plane by their father to spend a month with their mother, a poet who ran off years before and is living in Oakland. It’s the summer after Black Panther founder Huey Newton was jailed and member Bobby Hutton was gunned down trying to surrender to the Oakland police, and there are men in berets shouting “Black Power” on the news. Delphine, 11, remembers her mother, but after years of separation she’s more apt to believe what her grandmother has said about her, that Cecile is a selfish, crazy woman who sleeps on the street. At least Cecile lives in a real house, but she reacts to her daughters’ arrival without warmth or even curiosity. Instead, she sends the girls to eat breakfast at a center run by the Black Panther Party and tells them to stay out as long as they can so that she can work on her poetry. Over the course of the next four weeks, Delphine and her younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern, spend a lot of time learning about revolution and staying out of their mother’s way.

For the teen that wonders what it would be like to go back in time:

Zetta Elliott’s A Wish After Midnight

Genna is a fifteen-year-old girl who wants out of her tough Brooklyn neighborhood. But she gets more than she bargained for when a wish gone awry transports her back in time. Facing the perilous realities of Civil War–era Brooklyn, Genna must use all her wits to survive.                                                                                                                  .

For the story telling teen that starts every  sentence with wat had happen was?:

Rita Williams-Garcia’s Jumped

Leticia, a gossipy high-school student, knows that “Girl fights are ugly. Girl fights are personal.” She says this after overhearing that Dominique, the tough-as-nails basketball player, is planning to beat up pink-clad fashion-plate Trina at 2:45. The infraction was minor—the oblivious Trina cut off Dominique in the hallway—but for Dominique it was the last of a series of insults, the worst of which was being benched by Coach for failing to improve her grades.

For the teen with a teenie problem:

Christopher Grant’s Teenie (available on December 28, 2010)

High school freshman Martine (Teenie for short) is a good student, with a bright future ahead of her. She’s desperate to be accepted into a prestigious study abroad program in Spain so that she can see what life is like beyond the streets of Brooklyn. She wouldn’t mind escaping from her strict (though lovable) parents for awhile either. But when the captain of the basketball team starts to pay attention to her after she’s pined away for him for months and Cherise, her best friend, meets a guy online, Teenie’s mind is on anything but her schoolwork. Teenie’s longtime crush isn’t what he seemed to be, nor is her best friend’s online love. Can Teenie get her act together in time to save her friendship with Cherise, save her grade point average so that she can study in Spain, and save herself from a potentially dangerous relationship?