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    New book news: "Street Poison", a biography of Iceberg Slim

    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/bo...-stories-below
    "In the late 1960s and early ’70s, if you wanted a book by Iceberg Slim, the best-selling black writer in America, you didn’t go to a bookstore. You went to a black-owned barbershop or liquor store or gas station. Maybe you found a copy on a corner table down the block, or being passed around in prison.

    The first and finest of his books was a memoir, “Pimp: The Story of My Life,” published in 1967. This was street literature, marketed as pulp. The New York Times didn’t merely not review “Pimp,” Justin Gifford notes in “Street Poison: The Biography of Iceberg Slim.” Given the book’s title, this newspaper wouldn’t even print an advertisement for it."

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    Quote Originally Posted by RobertZ View Post
    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/bo...-stories-below
    "In the late 1960s and early ’70s, if you wanted a book by Iceberg Slim, the best-selling black writer in America, you didn’t go to a bookstore. You went to a black-owned barbershop or liquor store or gas station. Maybe you found a copy on a corner table down the block, or being passed around in prison.

    The first and finest of his books was a memoir, “Pimp: The Story of My Life,” published in 1967. This was street literature, marketed as pulp. The New York Times didn’t merely not review “Pimp,” Justin Gifford notes in “Street Poison: The Biography of Iceberg Slim.” Given the book’s title, this newspaper wouldn’t even print an advertisement for it."
    Back in the day, Iceberg Slim "Pimp" was required reading along with anything by Donald Goines, purchased at any venue where paperback books were sold... lol!

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