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Best Women's Erotica of the Year, Vol. 4

This anthology includes my story With Honors and is available on December 11, 2018. When editor Rachel Kramer Bussel invited me to contribute, I couldn’t resist. Especially when the theme for this year’s collection was risk.
In its review, Publisher’s Weeklywrites, “Whatever her interests or circumstances, every woman in this fantastic and diverse collection is empowered by her steamy…
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08. The Ankh-Right Chronicles

I’m too paranoid to drive my own car worrying about who’s going to trail me or fuck with my transmission. Supposedly that’s how the Miniskirt Mafia killed Escobar even though his Dominican mistress insists he caused the dive through the guard rail. accident. Between being high as a kite and hype from a fight with his wife, Lydia said he was driving erratically from the moment they got into his…
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07. The Ankh-Right Chronicles Need to read or watch any episodes from 1-6? Click here for the episode index. There's an online community where hip-hop aficionados go to learn, follow and share information about the real underground scene. Deep, deep, underground. They call themselves The Enlightened. Click on the logo to enter their message board... if you dare.

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01. The Ankh-Right Chronicles
01. That moment when a twenty-two year old hacker gives you evidence that the most influential hip-hop artist in the world wants you dead. Dania met me at a cafe across the street from Yeri & Yoli’s Unisex. From where I sit sipping on matcha tea, I can see that the place is packed. No one knows that I’m the third but silent partner in the business or that it was my idea to design and market the salon as the place where you could get your shape up, purchase your new Tims and meet Ms. Right Now before hitting the club or that I’m the one who put in a call to Mona Scott Key’s location manager and lobbied sitdown status on Love and Hip Hop. All they know is that it’s the trendy boutique where Erica Mena made her comeback to Love and Hip Hop by flinging a bottle of acetone at some Instagram model trying to break into the rap game. That appearance on the show with a cameo from the Segui Twins – the most endearing sisters on VH1 since Cardi and Hennessy – made the salon where you had to get your nails polished and edges smooth before a Thursday night on the town. After ordering a toasted chocolate croissant and cappuccino, Dania pulls a binder out of her La Boriqueña backpack and slides it over the table. I flip it open and the first email says all I need to know. “You never told me how you found me,” she says before biting into the croissant. “A friend recommended you.” My stomach sinks deeper with every page I turn. There are emails, Google Docs, text messages. They’d be cryptic to others, but they’re explicit to me. “I got voicemails, too. That guy you thought might be involved?” I put my finger to my lips to warn Dania not to say any names. “You were right.” That moment when the nigga whose career you resurrected decides the next upgrade requires teaming up with your nemesis and plotting to kill you. Dania casts her eyes on her gnawed nails. “They laugh.”
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02. The Ankh-Right Chronicles

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(Note: Find Episode 01 here.)
There’s a song that says every story is a love story. You best believe no rapper wrote that shit.
Last year when no one knew Malik and I were on the brink of divorce, Complexplaced us on its list of best couples in hip hop. Obviously, Bey-Z ranked at the top. Malik and I landed squarely in the middle at number five because Kimye should never have qualified. I…
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01. The Ankh-Right Chronicles

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That moment when a twenty-two year old hacker gives you evidence that the most influential hip-hop artist in the world wants you dead.
Dania met me at a cafe across the street from Yeri & Yoli’s Unisex. From where I sit sipping on matcha tea, I can see that the place is packed. No one knows that I’m the third but silent partner in the business or that it was my idea to design and market the…
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The Resistance Before the Breakthrough - The Teacher's Edition

What a difference a week of phone calls can make.
I’ve seen the light. I’ve come around. I’ve changed my mind.
And it actually feels good.
First, let me be a sport and give a hat tip to those who done told me so from the start. Gary Chou, the mind behind Orbital, had encouraged me to organize a live gathering of the students in the beta version of the self-study ecourse based on my novel…
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Confessions of a Teaching Artist

My life as a teaching artist has been a mixed bag this summer.
This Saturday I taught a free 2-hour workshop at the Bronx Writers Center called Jumpstart Your Novel. We had a full house, I delivered more than I promised, and the feedback was wonderful. My students were incredibly diverse and included some friends. Even though I stayed an extra half-hour, I walked away from the workshop feeling…
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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don't see

James Baldwin

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