Our First In-Person Event: S.H. Fernando Jr. + MF DOOM 11/8!
Join us in San Francisco!
Hiiiii hope you’ve been enjoying your summer! We’ve been having an epic Summer of Queens (big time!), catching up on our reading, archiving and scheduling/rescheduling author conversations for the fall.
We’ll announce a new slate of Zoom gatherings next month, but couldn’t wait to tell you now that we’re going to have our first in-person event!!
Join author S.H. Fernando Jr. in conversation with Music Book Club’s Tamara Palmer (aka me) to discuss his amazing forthcoming book The Chronicles of Doom: Unraveling Rap’s Masked Iconoclast (released on Astra House on October 29)!
SAVE THE DATE: November 8 at 7 p.m. at Green Apple Books on the Park (1231 Ninth Avenue, San Francisco)
On December 31, 2020, the world was shocked to learn about the death of hip-hop legend MF DOOM. Born in London and raised in the suburban enclave of Long Beach, New York, Daniel Dumile Jr.’s love of cartoons and comic books would soon turn him into one of hip-hop’s most enigmatic, prolific, and influential figures.
Sweeping and definitive, The Chronicles of DOOM: Unraveling Rap’s Masked Iconoclast recounts the rise, fall, redemption, and untimely demise of MF DOOM. Broken down into five sections: The Man, The Myth, The Mask, The Music, and The Legend, journalist S. H. Fernando, or SKIZ, chronicles the life of Daniel Dumile Jr., beginning in the house he grew up in in Long Beach, NY, into the hip-hop group KMD, onto the stage of his first masked show, through the countless collabs, and across the many different cities Daniel called home. Centering the music, SKIZ deftly lays out the history of east-coast rap against DOOM’s life story and dissects the personas, projects, tracks, and lyrics that led to his immortality.Including exclusive interviews with those who worked closely with DOOM and providing an unknown, intimate, behind the scenes look into DOOM’s life, The Chronicles of DOOM is the definitive biography of MF DOOM, a supervillain on stage and hero to those who paid attention.
We’d love to take this show on the road next week and do Music Book Club events in Los Angeles, NYC and beyond. We have some sweet leads, but please let us know if you have ideas of where we can do that for free!
More treats
• Music Book Club’s upcoming events calendar
• 1 Album A Day Art by Music Book Club co-producer Carly Eiseman
