Amistad Books is a division of Harper Collins devoted to books by and about Black people throughout the diaspora. One of the team s latest projects was the commissioning of 10 artists of color to redesign the covers of Zora Neale Hurston s books.
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Sarah Cantin at St. Martin’s Press took North American rights from
Alexandra Machinist at ICM Partners. The publisher said the book “explores witchcraft and female intuitive powers, told over five centuries through the lens of three connected women,” and was “pitched for readers of Sarah Perry, Jessie Burton, and Kate Morton.” Hart, who grew up in Australia and lives in London, trained as a lawyer. The second book is an untitled novel. Foreign rights for
Weyward have sold to houses in Finland, France, Spain, the U.K., and elsewhere.
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George McCalman, an artist and creative director in San Francisco, is working on a book, “Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen.” Photo: Aliena Zoe Cameron, Courtesy George McCalman
Five years ago, I began painting Black pioneers for Black History Month, one a day, as a self-directed fine art exercise. It seemed like a small thing at the time, my dawning interest swimming in an insurmountable ocean, but it felt like a gigantic personal step. I had to place parameters around my furtiveness. I wanted the pioneers I represented to be mostly unknown (at least to me) subjects. And I decided that I was going to use only black and white, because color was so overwhelmingly colorful. Oh, and I had not painted in 20 years, so I wasn’t even sure I could do it.
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