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“As Jonathan Franzen once said, ‘You're either reading a book or you're not.’ Here's the good news: Teenagers seem to be reading them.”

              – Mickey Hess
 



Mickey Hess:
Makin that Rap Money, Writin them Rap Books



retirement

                                                                                             

  LATEST:

BOOK TOUR

March 1: Kutztown University
March 16: TBA in New York w/ Todd Dills
March 22: Rider University with Kim Gek Lin Short

March 31: Brickbat Books, Philadelphia

April 2: Black Gold Records, Brooklyn w/ Al Burian
April 9: Atomic Books, Baltimore w/Al Burian
April 19: University of Louisville
July : several dates TBA with Joe Meno

Dec 29, 2011 LEO Reviews The Nostalgia Echo

Dec 1, 2011 Largehearted Boy Playlist for The Nostalgia Echo

For people who like to really overpay for things

"On The Novelist and the Rapper"

Welding: Can it be Taught? at The New Yorker (fake)

10 Thoughts on Academia's Sheet-Metal Crisis

Live at The Knitting Factory with Female Beatboxers

What Hank Jr. Wishes he could Say to Hank Sr. at Emprise Review

Band Considers Itself a Vocation at The2ndHand

Nothing Happens at Kill Author

I Will Blurb Any Book Within 24 Hours! at The Rumpus

Life Story at Featherproof Books (samples Colonel Sanders' autobiography)

Diagnosis: Breakdancer at Glossolalia Flash Fiction

See Mickey Hess talk Hip Hop on A&E Biography's Much-Anticipated Vanilla Ice Episode

Ghost Out at The Foundling Review
 
The Novelist and the Rapper at Front Porch

Shittin' On a Jet at Please Don't
 

The Millions Year in Reading

Interview on NPR Baltimore

Interview
at Sly Oyster

Largehearted Boy Playlist for Big Wheel at the Cracker Factory




      




  new books for 2012

Shipping now:

The Nostalgia Echo


Shipping Feb 1:

novelist
The Novelist & the Rapper

Paperback or Ebook