My current read…”Cotton Comes to Harlem”
by #ChesterHimes #booksky #blackbooksky #read

Mon défi pour 2025 : #unjourunlivreunauteur
Aujourd'hui, un auteur de polars, défenseur de l'anti-racisme, qui eut peu de succès dans son pays d'origine, mais qui connu la renommée en Europe, dont en France grâce à la Série Noire. Bonne journée, les amis ! #ChesterHimes

Sure I can order these off Amazon, but I get thrill out of prowling book shelves and throwing some money at an indie bookstore, in this case, the Strand. I'm already several chapters in on the Hammett and love it.
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Reel Commentary | Cotton Comes to Harlem Ossie Davis’s Cotton Comes to Harlem isn’t just a detective story, it’s a landmark in Black cinema.

Five decades ago, Ossie Davis stepped behind the camera to deliver one of Black cinema’s most enduring films, Cotton Comes to Harlem. Why does it still feel so urgent today? #CottonComesToHarlem #OssieDavis #ChesterHimes #TheFilmGordon thefilmgordon.com/reel-comment...

"There is an indomitable quality within the human spirit that cannot be destroyed; a face deep within the human personality that is impregnable to all assaults."

✒ #ChesterHimes, American author, was #BOTD 29 July 1909. #Literature

Chester Himes’s L.A. Noir Still Burns in If He Hollers Let Him Go Chester Himes’s If He Hollers Let Him Go explores race, rage, and resilience in 1940s Los Angeles through the eyes of a Black working-class man.

"Bob’s Los Angeles—the tense, moody landscape of Chester Himes’s 'If He Hollers Let Him Go'—is less the golden dream many Black migrants were called toward and more the hollow promises they encountered," @lynellgeorge.bsky.social. www.altaonline.com/books/fictio... #ChesterHimes #LANoir

Intentando poner orden en mi biblioteca me ha caído del cielo, literalmente, esta novela que ya tenía olvidada del maestro, y me lo traigo este domingo a mi lugar favorito. Me tomaría unas birras con Ataúd y Sepulturero pero me temo ando lejos de Harlem. #novelanegra #chesterhimes #zaragoza #vermut

Yesterday Will Make You Cry, Chester Himes

Searing, exquisitely vivid, and ultimately affirming, a masterful autobiographical novel about the injustices of the prison system and the humanity that flourishes despite them.

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"Los intelectuales me reprochan que escriba un libro contrario a la tradición establecida por Richard Wright, según la cual el negro americano no puede ser sino víctima".

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"Blind Man with a Pistol"

Cover of the novel YESTERDAY WILL MAKE YOU CRY by Chester Himes.

Choose 25 books that have stayed with or influenced you. One book per day for 25 days, in o particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

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15/25: #YesterdayWillMakeYouCry #ChesterHimes

The Crazy Kill by Chester Himes (Berkley Medallion F1261, July 1966). Cover Art by Harry Bennett. #TheCrazyKill #ChesterHimes #1960s #book #books #Paperback #coverart #cover #artwork #HarryBennett #crime #mystery #thriller #thrillers #BerkleyMedallion

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Back on the road with a great book, The Essential Harlem Detective by #ChesterHimes. It was a great read decades ago and still is. My mind keeps thinking why do all hotel pillows sucks regardless of how amazing the hotel is?