Stories of Survival, in the Wilds, in Cities and at Home - NYT Review of the last suspicious holdout by mike peed
“The collection burns with unassailable truths, and many tales are less a lament than a roguish tribute to spirit and ingenuity.”
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Ladee Hubbard’s ‘The Rib King’ is a fascinating look at ambition, race and revenge - Review by Naomi Jackson
“The Rib King’’ upends the racial calculus that amplifies the stories of the privileged few, offering rich, lovingly rendered portraits of working-class Black people. Hubbard’s work underscores the legendary Toni Morrison’s words in The New Yorker: “You are not the work you do; you are the person you are.”
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Ladee Hubbard’s ‘The Rib King’ looks beyond the labels - Review by Colette Bancroft
“Hubbard weaves large issues into The Rib King: racism in all its manifestations, from the tedious everyday indignities its characters endure to staggering economic inequality and unpunished violence.”
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Ladee Hubbard: 'There’s an official history of how things were – and there's the truth'- REVIEW by Richard Lee
"...At the dawn of the 20th century, the American sociologist and campaigner WEB Du Bois argued that African Americans needed more than industrial training to vanquish inequality in the wake of slavery, declaring: “The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men.”
“The problem of education,” he wrote in a celebrated 1903 essay, “must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the Mass away from the contamination and death of the Worst, in their own and other races...”
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Late Night with Seth Meyers
Ladee Hubbard, author of The Talented Ribkins talks to Seth Myers about how her new book The Talented Ribkins was inspired by a W.E.B. Du Bois essay.
The conversation touched on all kinds of things: which superheroes are coolest, what it’s like having Toni Morrison for a thesis advisor, WEB Du Bois’s essay “The Talented Tenth,” how a short story turns into a novel, and what it’s like when a professor has to cancel class so she can chat wittily with Seth Meyers on national TV for the night.