This month’s Believer comes with a whole bunch of laudatory excitement. The sixth annual Believer Book Award for 2010 has been officially announced, along with the first ever Believer Poetry Award!
If your interests more often align with the public at large, then check out this Reader’s Survey—scroll through the top ten poetry and fiction books of 2010. Besides all that newness, the May issue is pioneering text deconstruction, moving beyond books to review text wherever it is found (for example, Fabolous lyrics).
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Daniel Levin-Becker has written other great hip-hop exegeses along the lines of the Fabolous review for RapGenius.com (formerly RapExegesis.com). Here are a few:
“Notes on Ready to Die”
http://rapgenius.com/posts/Notes-on-ready-to-die
“Rappers and the Alphabet: A Romance on the D.L.”
http://rapgenius.com/posts/Rappers-and-the-alphabet-a-romance-on-the-d-l
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