Goodbait Books

Welcome to Goodbait Books. We're delighted to offer our very first book:

Mojo Snake Minuet

a novel by John Litweiler

Black

Black people are the majority in America. White people are the underprivileged minority, and now--here comes the bad news -- the historic Kaida mojo is missing. Chief Kaida, autocratic publisher of the Chicago Daily Messenger, feared by mayors, governors, and senators, assigns lowly young entertainment reporter Yakub Yakub to find the stolen charm.

The job challenges Yakub's physical and moral courage, as he confronts

- Gangsters, defrocked Voodoo priests, crooked cops, and a hard-boiled private witch;

? - Beautiful pop divas Shakeaplenty and Honeypie, who sing dirty opera arias in inner-city symphonic joints;

? - TV news griots, black minstrels in whiteface, and a Back To Europe movement in the white ghetto; and most of all,

? - His ex-lover Aisha Salim, a brave black volunteer in the movement for white civil rights.

Mojo Snake Minuet is more than a thriller -- it blows the cover off the black-and-white race racket, the music racket, and the newspaper and politics and religion rackets, among other shameful rackets.

John Litweiler, a former Down Beat and Encyclopedia Britannica staff writer-editor, has written liner notes, essays, articles, and reviews in the Chicago Reader, Sun-Times, Tribune, New York Times Book Review, Kulchur, Jazz Times, Jazz Monthly, www.sima.org.au, and so on.

The price for Mojo Snake Minuet, a Goodbait Book, is $15.00.*
ISBN 978-0-9798745-0-5

We also have some hardcover copies of Ornette Coleman: The Harmolodic Life (British edition, 1993) at $24.00 each, and paperback copies of The Freedom Principle: Jazz After 1958 (1984) for $14.00 each. Litweiler wrote both of them, and they're both unique -- one is still the only biography of the greatest living jazz artist, and the other is the only survey of jazz's evolution after Coleman's impact in 1958. Both are now out of print.*

* YOU CAN BUY MOJO SNAKE MINUET from Seminary Co-op Bookstore, at 5757 South University Ave., Chicago, IL 60637 (later this week, you can order online from orders@semcoop.com) and its sister store 57th Street Books, at 1301 East 57th Street, Chicago 60637 (fiftysev@semcoop.com).

Or you can order Mojo Snake Minuet and / or the others from Goodbait Books. U.S. citizens can add $2.00 for the first book and $1.00 for each additional book, and we'll ship by U.S. Postal Service; orders we mail outside the U.S. are slightly more expensive. Make a check or money order payable to John Litweiler and mail it to him at 5633 South Kenwood Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637. If you'd rather use PayPal to pay by debit or credit card, please e-mail books@goodbaitbooks.com. We'll then e-mail a Money Request to you so that you can complete your order.

Mojo Snake Minuet is only the beginning. Stay tuned to this website -- there will be more new books to come.

And be sure to listen to Chicago's top jazz station, WHPK 88.5 FM, The Pride of the South Side - and the joy of the Internet streaming at whpk.org. It's the only station with Zoundz!, the most dangerous jazz show in Chicago, with music from many galaxies around the universe. The program is on every Monday from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Central Time, with hosts Mike Rock and John Litweiler.

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