Rochelle Spencer

On a sunny day in late October, the writer, agent, and literary powerhouse Kima Jones and I talked about the real work of a writer: the channeling of communal voices and concerns. Kima was the keynote speaker for LaGuardia Community College’s National Day on Writing (NDoW), a celebration of writing as a medium for connection,

I was on Fulton buying gossip books—five for a dollar—when I ran into that actor, Lamont Evans. Didn’t see him right away, too busy staring at the cover of Mocha Dreams, a best-seller by January “Mocha” Jones, the video vixen who’d been married to seven different rappers, two at the same time.