DJ GATSBY BOOK CLUB

DJGBC Interview: Rap Artist / Author / BlogTalk Radio Host “Mack Mama” (Pt.1) 05Feb We Gonna Keep This Interview 100..Mack Mama Started With A Life Of Crime ,Went to Jail, Came Out And Started her Rap Career, Her Business , Her BlogRadio Show & Writing Books…The Is Part 1 Of Her Story !! “Part 1″ of my 2-part interview with Public Speaker, Radio Personality, Hip Hop Artist & Bestselling Author Mack MamaI have been referring to you as Mack Mama “The Bad Girl Of Urban Lit” is that okay with you ? It is an accurate title I’ll take it lol DJGBC: Okay I know you are from New York City, What Borough? I am from Brooklyn I was raised in an area called the 90’s (east Flatbush) and Fort Greene projects. I rep Brooklyn to the fullest and consider myself to be one of Bk’s Finest! DJGBC: When did you decide to get in the Rap Game? When I was locked up during the Biggie era early 90’s, I saw Big’s Juicy video and lost my mind in the day room. I knew the Notorious Big as Fat Chris from Fulton St. and a few of my homies were in the video, I couldn’t believe they were on T.V and I wanted to rap instantly, in that moment a star was born. I was truly inspired by the late great Biggie Smalls. DJGBC: Who are some of the artist that you have worked with? I have worked with Styles P....

“The Sensitivity of a Man: Prose & Poems About Life, Love, Living and a Man’s Search to Find Inner Peace” Everett R. Hubbard 22Mar The purpose of this book isn’t to preach about one thing or another. It is only meant to explain the sensitivity of a man, and the things in my life that affect every aspect of my being-through my experiences with GOD, nature, myself and people, touching upon your heart my reason for living. What I’d like for you to do is to sit back, relax and read, as I recite my life through these words. Feel the joys and pains of my conception to manhood, as this infant of a man takes hold of his umbilical cord to life. Author / Poet Everett Hubbard     From the depths of despair to heights of true love, Everett R. Hubbard soulfully portrays the full breadth of the human experience in The Sensitivity of a Man. This remarkable collection of more than 60 poems and short essays is intensely personal in nature yet universal in scope. Here are moving sketches of the spirit-crushing effects of contemporary …life on a modern black man—and the power of faith in God to raise him up from even the lowest lows. All of them attempt to forge a way out of a cultural mindset that has demanded men—and particularly black men—to sequester their emotions from view. In “Homeless,” Everett examines the interminable connection among all of us and asks what separates the gutter...

DJGBC Authors Spotlight: Glynda Gamble – Linton 29Mar   Glynda Linton is a native of Florida and currently lives and work in Plantation, Florida as the National Secretary Treasurer of her Union. Shoes on the Wrong Foot, is her first published work. Glynda is a native Floridian and attended Miami-Dade Community College, studying Early Childhood Education. After one year she changed her major to Business and transferred to Barry University and Nova University, where she also studied Labor Law. She is divorced and has 3 sons, Corey (deceased), Darryl and Christopher. Her passion as a community and political activist has been her lifelong work, she spends her time giving back to her communities by getting involved in organizations like Salvation Army Homeless Shelter, All Children’s Hospital Cancer Center, Cooperative Feeding Food Bank and Women in Distress, which helped lend some of the experiences CeCe Copeland has endured. A twelve years Breast Cancer Survivor and avid reader, Glynda decided that it was time she contributed back to the Literary World. Linton is already at work on her second novel as CeCe Copeland is continuing her quest for true love.           Her latest book entitled simply “Shoes on the wrong footis a journey in the life of CeCe Copeland, a single mom who while young and ambitious and full of adventure was soon met with the reality in the world of men. CeCe had dreams of being a mover and shaker in the corporate world, she developed a style...

DJGBC Authors Spotlight: Madlen Namro “Commandos” 03Apr Madlen Namro was born in Lodz, Poland. When she was seven, maybe eight years old, children in her school used to call her Pippi Longstocking, because she would always make up stories and generally pull everyone’s leg all the time. In fact her daydreams of being a writer got serious enough for her parents to be called to school. The teacher downright told them that the best way to deal with it would be to make her commit it all to paper. So, when she was around nine, her first book was written, it was called “Talking Dog and Me”. That’s how her adventure with writing begun. She’s always seemed to have a rather lively imagination and making up stories has always been her second nature, something she never had trouble with. She believes it to be a gift from God and one that she was meant to use.   The publication in 2008 of her novel entitled ‘Commandos’ allowed her to fulfil her dream of becoming a sci-fi writer. The book’s action-packed and vivid plot engross the reader and place him in the very middle of events which are about to determine the fate of 22nd century Earth. As we read through passages describing the captivating chase after the psychopathic terrorist leader, we may forget that the image of such a world becoming an alarmingly familiar reality is not necessarily that farfetched. Despite Madlen Namro’s skilful storytelling, some of the described events may...

DJGBC April 2012 Book Of The Month: “Get It Girls” By Treasure Blue 06Apr WHEN JESSICA JONES AND HER three best friends venture out on prom night, a tragic incident turns a night of high school achievement into a crime scene, and Jessica and her girls are left with bloody hands and shattered futures. After spending years paying off a debt that wasn’t theirs, Jessica and her friends return to Harlem to find it changed. Crack is now king and its destruction has left their families in ruin and their neighborhoods consumed by its peddlers. Jessica takes a stand, and her friends are there to back her up in order to preserve their lives, their families, and their Harlem. Many have called Treasure E. Blue the reincarnated Donald Goines. This prolific author without doubt is one of the most shocking and controversial writers that we have seen in decades. Blue’s background is as almost as compelling as his mouth-dropping debut novel entitled “Harlem Girl Lost”. Using the streets as a means of survival, he soon found himself involved with some of Harlem’s most notorious elements. Retiring from the game at the tender age of sixteen, Blue, who dropped out of High School after being banned from the entire Board of Education system, in New York City, managed to become one of the youngest people to receive his G.E.D. in New York State. Joining the military at seventeen, he developed a voracious appetite for books going on to read well over 2000...