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Co-founder, BroadsidePR.com * champion of the written word * Philadelphia booster * mom to “Moosh”
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Congratulations,
@calebgayle.bsky.social
!!! BLACK MOSES is a contender for the National Book Award in Nonfiction!!!
@nationalbook.bsky.social
@riverheadbooks.bsky.social
www.nationalbook.org/2025-nationa...
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2025 National Book Awards Longlist for Nonfiction
The ten contenders for the National Book Award for Nonfiction
https://www.nationalbook.org/2025-national-book-awards-longlist-for-nonfiction/
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"Mother love & mother violence form an indivisible braid in Sasha Bonét’s deeply felt memoir...[O]bservant, thoughtful & poetic.... Her account of both her family history & the lives of her tributaries show off her gifts to the fullest."
@aaknopf.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/b...
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A Searing Memoir of Black Womanhood, Across Generations
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/books/review/the-waterbearers-sasha-bonet.html
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Artist Tschabalala Self calls Sasha Bonét's THE WATERBEARERS "a Black American classic."
@bombmag.bsky.social
"[It] is not just a book; it’s a living archive, a testimony, & a reckoning, one which Sasha so generously shares w/ us in equal parts tenderness & clarity."
bombmagazine.org/articles/202...
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BOMB Magazine | Sasha Bonét by Tschabalala Self
A Black mother’s memoir, from the Gulf to the Hudson, about transforming inherited pain into generational healing.
https://bombmagazine.org/articles/2025/09/18/sasha-bon%C3%A9t-by-tschabalala-self/
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Don't miss this beautiful excerpt of Sasha Bonét's THE WATERBEARERS in ELLE this week
@aaknopf.bsky.social
www.elle.com/culture/book...
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'If She’s Beautiful, What Does That Make Me?'
The Waterbearers author Sasha Bonét on the perceptions thrust upon a Black girl’s body.
https://www.elle.com/culture/books/a66106856/sasha-bonet-the-waterbearers-black-girl-bodies-motherhood-essay/
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Happy publication week to Sasha Bonét, whose gorgeous debut, THE WATERBEARERS: My Mother, My Grandmother, and the Women Who Carried Me, is now out in the world (and excerpted in Oprah Daily).
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Black Grandmothers Are the Quiet Architects of Survival—Their Prayers and Wisdom Still Shape Generations Today
"I can always tell when someone is raised by their grandmama," writes Sasha Bonét, "you’ll only notice if you know what you’re looking for."
https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/books/a66041804/waterbearers-excerpt-black-grandmothers/
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"[A] dazzling, transformative work that reimagines Black womanhood, inviting us to reconsider how we understand ourselves as individuals, parents, communities and a nation." Deep South on THE WATERBEARERS
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(out 9/16 from
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Congratulations,
@calebgayle.bsky.social
!!! BLACK MOSES is a contender for the National Book Award in Nonfiction!!!
@nationalbook.bsky.social
@riverheadbooks.bsky.social
www.nationalbook.org/2025-nationa...
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2025 National Book Awards Longlist for Nonfiction
The ten contenders for the National Book Award for Nonfiction
https://www.nationalbook.org/2025-national-book-awards-longlist-for-nonfiction/
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Thanks to
@therootdotcom.bsky.social
for including THE WATERBEARERS by Sasha Bonét in its September round-up!
@aaknopf.bsky.social
www.theroot.com/books-by-bla...
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Books By Black Authors We Can't Wait to Read in September 2025
A new collection of work from Nikki Giovanni and the story behind the women of Parliament-Funkadelic are just a few of the books we're reading this month.
https://www.theroot.com/books-by-black-authors-we-cant-wait-to-read-in-septembe-2000059778/slides/2
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Included in the
@vanityfair.com
round-up of September staff favorites is Sasha Bonét's beautiful debut, THE WATERBEARERS ("a rich ode to Black matriarchy")
@aaknopf.bsky.social
www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...
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These Back To School Novels Skewer Academia—Dark, Protein-Maxxing, and Otherwise
New fiction by Jordan Castro and R.F. Kuang makes hay of campus politics and intellectual foibles, plus more recent favorites from the staff of Vanity Fair.
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/story/back-to-school-novels
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Love seeing Aaron Robertson among the 2025 Zora Awards nonfiction finalists for THE BLACK UTOPIANS!
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people.com/2025-zora-aw...
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2025 Zora Awards Finalists Are Here — See the Full List (Exclusive)
The Zora Awards have announced their 2025 finalists. Hosted by the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation, the award honors Black writers across fiction, nonfiction and poetry.
https://people.com/2025-zora-awards-finalists-exclusive-11799965
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"Today, with the White House attempting to control discussion of African American history...BLACK MOSES is a useful reminder that for nearly a century after the Civil War, what was called democracy was indistinguishable from white power."
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www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/b...
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The Quixotic Crusade to Create an All-Black State in Oklahoma
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/books/review/black-moses-caleb-gayle.html
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BLACK MOSES
@calebgayle.bsky.social
, excerpted this week in
@smithsonianmag.bsky.social
: "It is the story of trying, why we cannot stop trying, and why being able to try is worth remembering at all."
@riverheadbooks.bsky.social
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This Visionary African American Politician Dreamed of Creating an All-Black State in Oklahoma Territory
Edward P. McCabe petitioned Benjamin Harrison for an opportunity to show him that Black people "are men and women capable of self‑government." When the president was unmoved, McCabe and his followers ...
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/this-visionary-african-american-politician-dreamed-of-creating-an-all-black-state-in-oklahoma-territory-180987093/
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"[T]he moral decisions we must make [today] haven’t gotten easier. Who we detain, whose histories we erase, which freedoms we underfund.... The difference now is that there’s no Kansas to send our convictions to."
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@bostonglobe.com
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/10/o...
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How New England built the Plains - The Boston Globe
When a fugitive slave was caught in Boston in 1854, many civic leaders were outraged — but they wouldn’t challenge slavery directly. So they found an outlet for their conscience on the frontier.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/10/opinion/caleb-gayle-black-moses-lawrence/?event=event12
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@hamiltoncain.bsky.social
calls BLACK MOSES
@calebgayle.bsky.social
"eloquent" & "engrossing." "Gayle does more than just rescue a forgotten yet crucial figure; he places McCabe at the center of radical liberation."
@riverheadbooks.bsky.social
@startribune.com
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Review: Meet the man who tried to establish a Black state within the U.S.
Nonfiction: Caleb Gayle’s gorgeous “Black Moses” illuminates a forgotten figure from our racial past.
https://www.startribune.com/edward-mccabe-caleb-gayle-abram-hall-reconstruction-nell-irvin-painter/601446514
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Tx to
@therootdotcom.bsky.social
for featuring BLACK MOSES
@calebgayle.bsky.social
in its August Books round-up!
@riverheadbooks.bsky.social
@thegernertco.bsky.social
www.theroot.com/august-2025-...
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August 2025 Books By Black Authors We Can't Wait to Read | The Root
The summer may be almost over, but great books by Black authors are still coming in hot.
https://www.theroot.com/august-2025-books-by-black-authors-we-cant-wait-to-read-2000053303/slides/2
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"If we are serious about holding this country together, we have to reckon w/ the real American inheritance, where ambition & betrayal, dreaming & dispossession, are not opposite. They are co-tenants."
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BLACK MOSES (8/12)
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If you don’t understand Oklahoma, you can’t understand America
A Black man like me is not supposed to love Oklahoma. But in studying my home state’s history of violence, theft and wild ambitions, I learned to reckon with its legacy
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/jul/20/oklahoma-united-states
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Among the many reasons I cherish Sasha Bonét's THE WATERBEARERS (Knopf, Sept 16): its incomparably authentic, mold-shattering depiction of womanhood & single motherhood. Ty
@publisherswkly.bsky.social
for giving your cover to this life-changing new work. Get ready, world.
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Love seeing Caleb Gayle's superb BLACK MOSES (Riverhead, Aug 12) on this list!
@nytimes.com
@calebgayle.bsky.social
@riverheadbooks.bsky.social
@thegernertco.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/b...
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22 Books Coming in August
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/books/new-books-august.html
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Pamela Colloff
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At the top of my reading list:
@calebgayle.bsky.social
's forthcoming BLACK MOSES, about a 19th-century Black visionary who dreamed of a state governed by and for Black people. It's my favorite kind of story--a buried history of resistance and possibility.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717975...
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Congratulations to the stupendous new cohort of Whiting Award winners!!!
@npr.org
@mtaeckens.bsky.social
@whitingfoundation.bsky.social
www.npr.org/2025/04/09/n...
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10 emerging writers win Whiting Awards
The awards, which come with a $50K purse, have helped launch the writing careers of many now well-known authors, including Colson Whitehead, Ocean Vuong, Alice McDermott and Jia Tolentino.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/09/nx-s1-5349443/2025-whiting-award-winners#:~:text=The%20Whiting%20Foundation%20announced%20the,Alice%20McDermott%20and%20Jia%20Tolentino
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Just call me Bubbles
@aliahanna.bsky.social
@broadside-pr.bsky.social
aliahabib.substack.com/p/bubbles-of...
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Bubbles of Interest: An Interview with Independent Publicist Whitney Peeling
On the vexed question of "Should I hire a freelance publicist for my book?" plus further proof that it pays to be kind.
https://aliahabib.substack.com/p/bubbles-of-interest-an-interview?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3537065&post_id=157544627&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ct2u&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
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THE BLACK UTOPIANS + THE LIGHT EATERS are
@latimes.com
Bk Prize finalists! 👏 👏👏 to
@zoeschlanger.bsky.social
@sarahjgrimm.bsky.social
Aaron Robertson (+ to
@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
, rep'd by
@broadside-pr.bsky.social
's
@mtaeckens.bsky.social
, for ABSOLUTION)!
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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Andrew Garfield, Percival Everett and Attica Locke among L.A. Times Book Prize finalists
Andrew Garfield, Percival Everett and Attica Locke are among the finalists for the 45th Los Angeles Times Book Prizes.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2025-02-19/la-times-book-prizes-finalists-2024
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YES to this (and thanks also to Victor Luckerson, whose book, BUILT FROM THE FIRE, was frequently referenced in the report).
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Ty
@bostonglobe.com
@katekilla.bsky.social
for including THE BLACK UTOPIANS/Aaron Robertson, THE LIGHT EATERS/@zoeschlanger.bsky.social, + more
@broadside-pr.bsky.social
projects here!
@fsgbooks.bsky.social
@harpercollins.bsky.social
@sarahjgrimm.bsky.social
www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/13/a...
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The 75 best books of 2024 - The Boston Globe
Boston Globe book critics give us their favorites from a year of great titles.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/13/arts/75-best-books-of-2024/
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Remember the names of these new Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grantees - their projects will start to roll out in the next year or so and each one is truly more spectacular than the next!
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More Thanksgiving-timed good news for Aaron Robertson and THE BLACK UTOPIANS: The New York Public Library has named the book a 2024 Top Ten Best Book for Adults!
@fsgbooks.bsky.social
www.nypl.org/blog/2024/11...
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Best Books of 2024: Top 10 Picks | The New York Public Library
Noteworthy new books for readers of all ages recommended by NYPL's expert librarians and staff.
https://www.nypl.org/blog/2024/11/26/best-books-2024-top-10-picks
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Hooray! Hooray! Aaron Robertson’s beautiful debut, THE BLACK UTOPIANS (a “sensitive, often deeply personal exploration of utopianism in Black American thought and life”) is a
@nytimes.com
Notable Book!
@fsgbooks.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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100 Notable Books of 2024
Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/11/26/books/notable-books.html
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Performers, creators, writers: only 2 spots left for this workshop (beginning 12/4) with Pulitzer (and Whiting)-winning playwright James Ijames and Pig Iron Theatre Co’s Dan Rothenberg. Deadline this Wed!
pigiron.org/school/works...
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RIFFS ON A TEXT: adapting and digesting the work of Koltés - Pig Iron
SEPTEMBER + OCTOBER 2024 - While David has incorporated mindfulness practices into his choreography and composition for decades, this workshop represents a kind of beta-test of a new framing of this m...
https://pigiron.org/school/workshops/riffs-on-a-text/
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Love seeing Aaron Robertson's THE BLACK UTOPIANS (and so many other Broadside PR-rep'd books) in TIME's glorious list of 100 Must Read Books of 2024!
time.com/7172750/the-...
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'The Black Utopians' Is One of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2024
Here's why it made the list
https://time.com/7172750/the-black-utopians/
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Pig Iron School's alum include Jen Kidwell & Scott Shepherd (Underground Railroad Game, a NYT Top 25 Best American Play Since Angels In America), Alex Tatarsky (2024 Whitney Biennial artist) + many others. Its graduates will continue to impress so watch this space!
www.inquirer.com/arts/theater...
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After UArts closure, Pig Iron School finds new MFA partner in Rowan University
The Glassboro, NJ-based university will confer degrees to the graduates of the the Olde Kensington theater school
https://www.inquirer.com/arts/theater/pig-iron-uarts-rowan-university-20241023.html
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The
@nytimes.com
names THE BLACK UTOPIANS by Aaron Robertson one of 7 new recommended books this week!
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/b...
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7 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/books/review/new-books-recommendations.html
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"[In THE BLACK UTOPIANS, Aaron] Robertson engages with serious and important themes without being didactic or heavy-hearted. On the contrary, the knowledge shared within the pages of this book is quite freeing and liberating."
www.essence.com/entertainmen...
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Let’s Get Lit: Essence’s Top 20 Book Picks For Fall 2024 | Essence
Books are written to shift narratives. Here are Essence’s Top 20 Best Books that should be on your Fall Reading List.
https://www.essence.com/entertainment/top-20-books-fall-2024/
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My day is made! Starred PW review of THE BLACK UTOPIANS (FSG; 10/1) by Aaron Robertson: "[A] must-read...Robertson paints a vivid and beguiling picture of the indomitable human yearning for a safe and nurturing home."
www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-374-60...
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Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America by Aaron Robertson
Translator Robertson (Beyond Babylon) debuts with an ambitious and captivating group portrait of African American visionaries wh...
https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-374-60498-1?oly_enc_id=4246I9809612J8Y
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THE BLACK UTOPIANS: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America (FSG; Oct 1) and its brilliant author, Aaron Robertson, named one of 10 Noteworthy Nonfiction Debuts for Fall '24 / Writers to Watch by PW.
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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Writers to Watch: 10 Noteworthy Nonfiction Debuts, Fall 2024
This season’s crop of notable nonfiction debuts tackle the nature of life, the role of religion in American culture, Indigenous histories, and book bans
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/profiles/article/95642-writers-to-watch-10-noteworthy-nonfiction-debuts-fall-2024.html
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"If the Survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre Can’t Receive Reparations, Who Will?" The unstoppable Victor Luckerson (BUILT FROM THE FIRE, RH) in today's NYT
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Opinion | If the Survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre Can’t Receive Reparations, Who Will?
The courts refused to punish the attackers or offer redress to hundreds of newly destitute people. This injustice continues.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/28/opinion/tulsa-race-massacre-reparations.html
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