CITY KID: Publishers Weekly Review
By Nelson | january 24, 2009 | Post a comment

City Kid: A Writer's Memoir of Ghetto Life and Post-Soul Success Nelson George. Viking, $25.95 (248p) ISBN 978-0-670-02036-2 In his vivid and charming memoir, novelist and screenwriter George (Hip Hop America) recounts incidents from an eventful life that has ranged from a tough upbringing by his single mother in Brooklyn in the 1960s to a career of assorted writing [...]

Best Music Writing 2008 (DeCapo Press): PowellsBooks.Blog
By Nelson | january 14, 2009 | Post a comment

In honor of editing the Best Music Writing 2008 for DeCapo Press Powell's Book had me as a guest author for their blog the first week of December 2008.  My five blogs are titled:  The Author as Sociologist and Politcian, The Return of Rhythm and Blues, Sweet Melvin's Baadasssss Song, The Sundance Sofa and Bleak [...]