The Regulator Bookshop

Book club is tomorrow! We’ll be reading Oye by Melissa Mogollon, light refreshments will be provided.🌸

“Yes, hi, Mari. It’s me. I’m over my tantrum now and calling you back . . . But first—you have to promise that you won’t tell Mom or Abue any of this. Okay? They’ll set the house on fire if they find out . . .”

Come visit the shop for extended shop hours. We will be open until the end of book club which is generally around 7:30, sometimes earlier.

Thank you to Stephanie Whetstone, former Durham local, for visiting our shop and signing three copies of Deep Belly published by Rabbit House Press!

About the book:
Ava Maynard leaves her small coal mining town in Eastern Kentucky to make a life for herself and her son, Joshua, in the city. Her husband, Collis, has been laid off from his job as a miner, but he won’t leave the place they’ve always called home. When tragedy strikes, Ava is forced to return to the mountains to try to make sense of her family and the destruction in her hometown. She reluctantly slips back into her spot in this troubled world. At once comforted by the familiar beauty and grounding of the mountains and repulsed by the devastation of strip mining and drug culture, Ava relies on her deepest friendships and learns how to fight for the place she belongs to.

Some books to add to your tbr to celebrate JUNETEENTH!!

Archangels of Funk by Andrea Hairston published by Tordotcom Publishing
The Forgotten Summer of Seneca by Camryn Garrett published by ABRAMS Books
Misbehaving at the Crossroads by Honoreé Fanonne Jeffers published by HarperCollins
A Darker Wilderness by Erin Sharkly published by Milkweed Editions
Why Black People Die Sooner by Joseph L Graves Jr published by Columbia University Press
Binti: The Complete Trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor published by Penguin Random House
A Song for Juneteenth by Zetta Elliott and Noa Denmon☀️ published by Hachette Book Group 📖
Go Back and Fetch It by Rhiannon Giddens and Kristina R. Gaddy published by UNC Press
The Cooking Gene by Michael W. Twitty published by Amistad
Black Evidence: A History and a Warning by Candis Watts Smith published by W. W. Norton & Company
Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human As Praxis edited by Katherine McKittrick

Happy reading! Stay educated. Stay loud. Stay strong.

J. Kameron Carter stopped by the shop the other week and signed a copy of The Anarchy of Black Religion: A Mystic Song (Duke University Press, 2023).

He is a professor of African American Studies, Comparative Literature, and Religion at the University of California at Irvine and has also taught at Duke University and Indiana University Bloomington. He will be joining Washington University this fall.

Carter is also the author of Race: A Theological Account (Oxford University Press, 2008), editor of Religion and the Futures of Blackness (2013), and editor of The Matter of Black Religion (2021).

We’re looking forward to his next book release Whiteness: A Religious Lamentation (Yale University Press).

Congratulations on the new position at WashU and thanks for stopping by!

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