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Touré began writing fiction after attending Columbia University's graduate creative writing program. His first piece was the story of Sugar Lips Shinehot, a 1940s Harlem saxophonist who loses his ability to see white people. In the years following Columbia he appeared in The Best American Essays of 1999 and The Best American Sportswriting of 2001. His first book is a collection of short stories called The Portable Promised Land being published by Little, Brown and Company. He is a Contributing Editor of Rolling Stone and lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
The Portable Promised Land: Stories
This inspired collection of stories is cause for celebration. With stunning language and dazzling characters, Touré introduces Soul City-a wholly imagined utopia where magic happens and black is beautiful. In a broad range of characterization and styles, The Portable Promised Land is filled with lighthearted humor and heavyhearted issues. Touré challenges form and what's considered politically correct in stories like The Sad, Sweet Story of Sugar Lips Shinehot and Afrolexicolgy Today's Bi-Annual List of the Top 50 Words in African America. The Portable Promised Land marks the entrance of a new and wildly compelling voice to fiction.
Touré's Summer Reading List
ADA
by Vladmir Nabokov
Swan's Way (In Search of Lost Time)
by Marcel Proust
Ulysses
by James Joyce
Catcher in the Rye
by J. D. Salinger
The Autograph Man
by Zadie Smith
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