MS. MAGAZINE named “Elbows” a Great Read upon the book’s release in the fall of 2008: http://www.msmagazine.com/The ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH newspaper named “Elbows” a Best Book of 2008 in its December 7, 2008 edition (Arts & Entertainment Section)
BLACK RENAISSANCE/RENAISSANCE NOIRE, a publication of New York University’s Institute of African-American Affairs, included selections from “Elbows” in its Summer/Fall 2008 edition.
A FABULOUS NEW YEAR’S EVE by Lauren Mitchell | Director of Publications Missouri Historical Society December 31, 2014 I recall many stories about New Year’s through the decades, but the one that I enjoy the most is from Gail Milissa Grant’s At the Elbows of My Elders. Her description of a lavish party transports me to a time when women wore “long gloves and gowns (some of them daringly backless) and the men [wore] tuxedos.” As she says while introducing the party discussed below, “One word seems to sum up the “talked-about-for-months parties” that St. Louis Negroes put on during Jim Crow days: ‘FABULOUS.’”
