Author Talk: The Hippest Trip in America: Soul Train | SF

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Author Nelson George will be in conversation with Adam Mansbach at City Lights Booksellers.

George is celebrating the release of two new books The Lost Treasures of R&B and The Hippest Trip in America.

The Hippest Trip in America: Soul Train and the Evolution of Culture & Style is an authoritative history of the groundbreaking syndicated television show that has become an icon of American pop culture, from acclaimed author and filmmaker Nelson George, “the most accomplished black music critic of his generation” (Washington Post Book World).

In The Lost Treasures of R&B, professional bodyguard D Hunter takes a gig protecting rapper Asya Roc at an underground fight club in poverty-stricken Brownsville, Brooklyn. Unknown to D, the rapper has arranged to purchase illegal guns at the event. An acquaintance of D from the streets (and from the novel The Plot Against Hip Hop) named Ice turns out to be the courier.

 

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