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Max Rodriguez

Max Rodriguez is the founder and publisher of QBR: The Black Book Review, a national platform spotlighting books across the African and African‑diaspora experience, and the founder of the Harlem Book Fair, one of the best-known Black literary festivals in the U.S. He launched QBR in the early 1990s to address the lack of mainstream visibility for Black authors and has since built it into a review outlet and cultural convening force—connecting writers, readers, and institutions through events, interviews, and editorial coverage.

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