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Poetry is autobiography for some writers, transposed memories of voyages both interior and across time's span. Think of Wordsworth, seemingly cursed with total recall, or Whitman with his barbaric yawps about Brooklyn and the Union dead. Or consider Virginia Hamilton Adair, whose Ants on the Melon (Random House; 158 pages; $21) may prove to be the year's finest volume of verse...
...similar neo-soul movement seems to be making a splash. The Haitian-American hip-hop group the Fugees scored a hit with its gritty remake of Roberta Flack's Killing Me Softly. The Brooklyn-based R.-and-B. duo Groove Theory, whose songs combine pure pop appeal with slightly avant-garde musical touches, received heavy airplay for its smash single Tell Me and has a new song, Keep Tryin', on the charts. Singer D'Angelo draws fans with music that adds a laid-back '90s twist to the sound of '70s soul. And a multi-act tour is being planned...
...which has set the table for McMillan's staggering $6 million boodle from Stella (that's the figure she divulged at a black writers' conference in Brooklyn, New York, in March). Viking is printing 800,000 hard copies of the book. Book-of-the-Month Club bought the novel two years ago, as one of its main selections, sight unseen, before it was even written. The movie rights for Stella have also been sold, for an undisclosed seven-figure bundle...
Most black people know that a perverse motivation leads cops to continually "mistake" them for criminals. Racially-motivated police misconduct affects black Americans from Brooklyn to Beverly Hills. And the Canadian cops who follow the racist example of some of America's police--who deserve to be called pigs--are perhaps more accurately described as Canadian bacon...
...GearŠ, our traditional themewear collection for anyone born too late to experience colonial rule, steamer travel, first-edition Fitzgerald, freshly ironed linen and servants who were like members of the family. Since you can't go back to Paris in the '20s or Havana in the '40s or even Brooklyn in the '50s, we bring it to you, with all the quality jodhpurs, dusters, spats, boaters, corsets, spurs, poodle skirts, pince-nez and butcher's smocks you've come to expect from us--but at a fraction of the price you might pay at an ordinary costume shop...