@Dometi_ Yep. And not just that. He’s literally earning money/ views off her by showing her on his channel in that moment.

@SkipBrooks9 @DrSheenaHoward Oh yeah, I've been following her work for, whew, many years now.

@Dometi_ Inviting you back to campus to ONLY discuss this image. 🤣😂😅😇

A short take (podcast episode) on Elizabeth McHenry, @kinohin Nishikawa, and African American literary studies --

@Ebonyteach Whew, I've thought some on this issue of "productivity," in Af-Am lit, like Ralph Ellison publishing one novel while living. I read this piece with one novelist talking about struggling to write book #2 after her first was selected by Oprah. On and on and on.

@james3neal @123POW @james3neal, look how small the world is. When my younger brother began as a professor, Peace was his collaborating librarian. They worked at UT Arlington on various projects together.

@dan_sinykin Seems strange to say in the moment, but Whitehead's Harlem Shuffle and Crook Manifesto were about where Everett's James is. But yes, Underground received a really outstanding reception -- arguably the largest of any Af-Am authored novel over last decade.

@BlackDigitalHum Oh yes, Freedom's Journal gave me the language for my first tweet on this platform.

@Dometi_ , for unit #3, my Black lit class will cover points about crime fiction. One of the exam questions will go: What SIUE graduate and former GAME student hosted a television series on MTV about crime? I'll check in later to let you know how many people get it right. 🤣

I somehow forgot to add Ultimate Black Panther to my comic book pull list. But when I got to my local shop, they had it for me. How? Why? "We know you want anything @bryanedwardhill writes," they said.

@proseb4bros, ok, we've never met, but that loud sound you heard this weekend was just me gasping and going, "heeeey!!!" when your book made a cameo in "American Fiction." Good look.

@kianacoxphd @blkgrlpoet

@MEASeybold @ckent_but_tired Yes! And related, I've been meaning to ask: you and your Twain peeps been conversing about that upcoming novel _James_ by Percival Everett?

@tamisawyer That’s it.

@BlackDigitalHum Interesting that one reason it worked is because it happened on a platform that at least started with sports. My sense is that athletes (sports radio, emergent podcasts) show black men critiquing each other's performance publicly much more than in other areas of entertainment.

@BlackDigitalHum Yeah, it’s been interesting. More than authentic, I think the drama of critique and call out have been really crucial to all of this. Usually, rich people, including (or especially?) rich black people, stick together.

@SPBPHD That cover seems to be in the same visual genre as this 1951 Signet edition of Richard Wright's Black Boy (1945).

@LizCalifaq Thank. You. I was almost feeling bad about my slow and lackluster reading until you tweeted that. 🙏🏿

@LizCalifaq My responses still: 😫😵☠️

@dem8z @DWill5 @FJasmineG The gatherer and that gathering