Sacred Fire: The QBR 100 Essential Black Books
Books are a cornerstone of black culture. Charting over 200 years of tradition and turmoil, perseverance and triumphs, intelligence, horror and exquisite beauty, black literature rings with a remarkable people's vitality and passion, improvisational spirit and spiritual questing.
Now, capturing the full sweep of writing from the Diaspora--from Africa to the Caribbean to America-- Sacred Fire: The QBR 100 Essential Black Books celebrates the most influential works in this rich tradition, one of world literature's strongest forces.
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Book details
- Author
- Max Rodriguez
- Imprint
- Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Hardcover, Paperback
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism › African American & Black
Literary Criticism › Books & Reading
Reference › Bibliographies & Indexes - Topics
- African American literature · Black culture · literary criticism · bibliography · African diaspora · book recommendations · reading lists
- ISBN-13
- 9781620457870 (Hardcover)9781620458440 (Paperback)
About the author
MAX RODRIGUEZ is the founder and editor-in-chief of QBR: The Black Book Review, a national source of reviews for books about the African-American and African experience. He co-compiled and edited Sacred Fire: The QBR 100 Essential Black Books with Angeli R. Rasbury and Carol Taylor.
Rodriguez holds a BA from Rutgers University’s Livingston College and has worked as Executive Producer of The Book Channel Online.
When not writing, Rodriguez founded the Harlem Book Fair, the largest African-American book fair in the United States, which launched in 1998. His editorial work with QBR reflects his long commitment to centering Black literary culture on a national scale.
Max lives in Westchester County, New York.