The Beat: Go-Go Music from Washington, DC

Tomorrow evening, UPM authors Kip Lornell and Charles C. Stephenson, Jr. will be signing and reading from their book, The Beat!: Go-Go Music from Washington D.C at Busboys and Poets in Washington D.C

Lornell and Stephenson will be joined by special guests Chuck Brown (The Godfather of Go-Go), photographer Thomas Sayers Ellis, DJ Terry Tyler. This event will be capped off by a special performance from Faycez U Know.

The authors will begin signing at 6:00 PM.

To learn more about the DC go-go scene, check out this interview with Lornell and Charles from the Washington City Paper.

The Polls Are Open

The following post has been borrowed from our friends over at the Lemuria Blog. 

Pulling from a sixty-year history, The National Book Award Foundation needs your vote in deciding the best book out of all the past winners of The National Book Award for Fiction. What is notable for Mississippians is that two of the six nominees are Mississippi authors: William Faulkner and Eudora Welty. Furthermore, three of the six are southerners when Flannery O’Connor is added.

Choosing may be a tough choice, but casting your vote on The National Book Awards website is easy. Voting is open through October 21st.

 
For further reading, UPM has a large selection of Eudora Welty and William Faulkner titles.