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Come join us in celebrating writer Kalamu ya Salaam's new novel, WALKIN' BLUES when he appear at Octavia Books in conversation with Kelly Harris-DeBerry (FREEDOM KNOWS MY NAME).

WALKIN’ BLUES is a speculation and meditation on the life and legend of bluesman Robert Johnson.

It is a hero’s journey, largely set in 1930’s Mississippi.

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Intensely personal and refreshingly honest, Be About Beauty covers topics close to the artist's heart: public education, jazz, Black art, Mardi Gras Indians.

WALKIN' BLUES, the new novel by Kalamu ya Salaam, is a speculation and meditation on the life and legend of bluesman Robert Johnson.

Kalamu ya Salaam has widely published in literary, music, and political journals including Negro Digest/Black World, First World, The Black Scholar, Black Books.

The first book of prose from Kalamu ya Salaam, the prolific New Orleans writer and activist.

Johnson takes his sweet time rambling across the state and singing for his supper in jukes as he encounters curious women, jealous men, ugly racism of the time, the aftermath of the 1927 flood, and much more. He’s a man who is walking to think and walking to forget.

WALKIN’ BLUES is ruminating as revolution by a writer who, for over 40 years, has had one eye on the telescope, the other on the microscope, and the forthrightness to speak on it as strongly as anyone in our era.

WALKIN’ BLUES is the first of two books featuring Robert Johnson and is the first pu