Vickie Stringer: The Queen of Hip-Hop Lit
• Is this something you’re looking to do in other bookstores as well?
Stringer: I think they should. If Barnes & Noble knows what I know. … Barnes & Noble continues to be very conservative. So I don’t know. I would love to approach other marketing departments, to talk to them to say, “This is what you should be doing … .” … I told [my son] I got my own shelf in Borders and Waldens. He said, “Mom, you already have one in Barnes & Noble. I go passed the African-American section, and all your books are there. You already got a shelf.” … I think they’re doing it, but Borders and Waldens are doing it the right way, in the supportive way. They’re putting our name on the shelf. They’re doing it the marketing way because, guess what, they want to make money.