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Random House Moves Up Release of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Book on Race Relations
Source: WSJ
Random House is moving up the publication date of journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates’s new book on race relations in response to the Charleston shooting and a wave of interest in the book spurred by comments from David Remnick, John Legend and others.
“Between the World and Me,” originally planned for Sept. 8, will now be released on July 14 by imprint Spiegel & Grau.
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“We started getting massive requests from people” for advance copies, said Christopher Jackson, executive editor of Spiegel & Grau. “It spoke to this moment. We started to feel pregnant with this book. We had this book that so many people wanted.”
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“I’ve been wondering who might fill the intellectual void that plagued me after James Baldwin died,” Ms. {Toni} Morrison wrote. “Clearly it is Ta-Nehisi Coates The language of Between the World and Me, like Coates’ journey, is visceral, eloquent and beautifully redemptive. And its examination of the hazards and hopes of black male life is as profound as it is revelatory. This is required reading.”
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Read more: http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2015/06/25/random-house-moves-up-release-of-ta-nehisi-coatess-book-on
Until its release, you can enjoy Coates' wonderful article in The Atlantic this week: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/what-this-cruel-war-was-over/396482/
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He is an excellent writer and I just found out that his father founded and runs BCP (Black Classic Press). I have 2 tall bookcases with many important works by black authors that had been out of print, that I ordered from BCP. 
is for Third World Press (TWP) - http://www.thirdworldpressbooks.com/
It's good to see all of them working together and referencing each other on their websites!!!
I appreciate you including these in the the thread! I'm bookmarking these.
Keep sharing good books & articles. Regarding Between the World and Me, amazon says: A bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the single best writer on the subject of race in the United States” (The New York Observer). 
