Portia realer biography books
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Rent Keepin' It Real (2003)
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- Synopsis:
Madcap road trip set against the world of hip hop record labels. Joslyn (Portia) is the bootylicious daughter of a notorious 'gangsta' rap mogul, "A-Train" (Tiny Lister), whose New York based record label is under pressure. Joslyn doesn't make matters any easier for her Dad when she steals the unreleased master tape of her boyfriend, Raw D (Kurupt), A-Train's biggest selling artist who has just left the label. Believing in Raw D's promises of love and independence, Joslyn sets out to personally deliver the tape to him in L.A. But the promised land doesn't come that easy when she finds out that hot on her trail are her dad's thugs and two wannabe Eminem clones hired by Raw D's lawyer....
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- Sean Blakemore, Kurupt, Steve De Forest, Page Ediger, Bob Gilliam, Archie Howard, Clinton Huff, Tommy 'Tiny' Lister, Derrick L. McMillon, Claudia Patton, Portia Realer, Jessica Schatz, Tom Waldman
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Benjamin Myers – The Gallows Pole (Bluemoose Books, 2017)
There’s a movement among Northern writers that’s been around for a while now. Back in 2016 I called it “Powerhouse Gothic”. The Northern Powerhouse reference might be a little dated now, but the movement goes on strong. Literature always outlasts politics.
The subgenre is typified by windswept moors meeting industrial grit, hard men with drinking problems, resourceful women, and, somewhere out on the margins, a hint of magic.
Andrew Michael Hurley is one of these types of writers, as is Glen James Brown, Rosie Garland and, in places, Jenn Ashworth. Zoe Gilbert’s Folk (2018) is not Northern, but fits the bill. My own offering, Avon Murray (2016), is one of these as well.
But the undisputed king of Powerhouse Gothic is Benjamin Myers, and in particular his novel TheGallows Pole. I’m surprised it’s taken me as long to read as it has. It’s been prominently displayed in every book shop and cultural cent