Doug Seibold, President and Publisher of Chicago-based Agate Publishing was recently featured at The Front Table, the web magazine of the Seminary Co-op Bookstores. His subject: Leonard Pitts, Jr., who you might remember from our two reviews of his most recent novel Before I Forget, published by Agate’s imprint that focuses on African American authors and subjects, Bolden. In his article, Seibold highly praises both the author and the book, which focuses on black fatherhood over three generations.

“As he has walked the unique and highly public cultural tightrope that has carried him to the presidency, Barack Obama—himself both a black father and a largely fatherless son (as well as the most famous member, I believe, of the Seminary Co-op)—has made African-American fatherhood one of the very, very few ‘racial’ issues that he has addressed repeatedly since he began his run for that office. I can’t imagine another reader who would better appreciate the work of Leonard Pitts, Jr.”