Black Will Shoot

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In BLACK WILL SHOOT (Simon Spotlight Entertainment, $14), Jesse Washington, the entertainment editor for the Associated Press, writes a gritty tale about the underbelly of the hip-hop world in his debut novel. If anyone should know about this, it is Washington. The former editor-in-chief of Blaze magazine, a spin-off of the hip-hop magazine Vibe, had a gun pulled on him after a negative record review, and he was beaten so badly over a magazine editorial that he was hospitalized, he says. The plot of Washington's novel? What else, the story of a talented, ambitious writer at a hip-hop magazine who investigates the unsavory world of hip-hop and finds more than he bargained for.

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