Kwame Mbalia, BLACK BOY JOY: 17 Stories Celebrating Black Boyhood
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
New York Times bestselling author Kwame Mbalia returns to talk with Zibby about Black Boy Joy, the #1 bestselling anthology he edited. Kwame shares where he was when he realized he wanted to gather a number of his friends and peers to compile a middle-grade compilation celebrating Black youth and happiness, and tells Zibby about how he takes his coffee. The two also discuss the first piece of short fiction each of them ever wrote, why short stories are harder to craft than novels, and how Kwame plans to find joy each day.
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| 1:29.1 | Kwame Mabalia is back on moms and have time to read books to discuss Black Boy Joy, 17 stories |
| 1:34.7 | celebrating Black boyhood. Quame is a husband, father, writer, number one, New York Times best-selling |
| 1:40.5 | author, and former pharmaceutical metrologist in that order. He is the author of the Tristan |
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