The books are a tie-in with the rapper's animated YouTube series, which he co-created with Claude Brooks and October London.

The writers behind 'East of Eden,' 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'A Tale of Two Cities' on why built-in audiences get these books greenlit, and why they kept the worlds intact while rewriting the people inside them.

This year, the 26th president's legacy received a remarkable new tribute: the opening of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in the Badlands of North Dakota, a landscape that helped shape his lifelong commitment to conservation. Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown recently paid a visit for our arts and culture series, CANVAS.