This Tuesday, April 17, at 2:30pm, First-Year Writing professor Nkosi Ife Bandele will appear on Crimson Cloak Radio (here’s the link to tune in) to discuss his new novel, The Beast. The novel, Nkosi says, is about “a hip hop reporter who gets caught up in the mix of murder mystery of an African American cop killer pleading self-defense and his subsequent assassination.” Here’s an excerpt. Go read! Listen!