April 6, 2025
Talbert’s memoir got here out of conversations he has had together with his personal son.
Director, author, playwright, and producer David E. Talbert has bought his memoir titled “The whole lot I Know About Being a Man (I Realized From a Lady)” for six figures to Storehouse Voices, a Penguin Random Home Publishing Imprint and can be growing a tv with the identical title.
In response to Deadline, Talbert’s memoir got here out of conversations he has had together with his personal son, which brought on him to comprehend that the entire classes he has realized about being a person have been imparted to him by his mom, a single mom.
Storehouse Voices, per their web site, is concentrated on “selling the richness of Black storytelling by intentional acquisitions and hiring efforts, strategic partnerships, and genuine, equity-minded neighborhood outreach,” which it accomplishes by issuing non-fiction and fiction books.
In response to Individuals Journal, Storehouse Voices was launched in January 2025, created in partnership with Tamira Chapman, out of the success of Chapman’s Ladies & Phrases program, which was launched with assist from Storehouse In A Field and Penguin Random Home, which aimed to “demystify the publishing trade and its processes” for underrepresented authors.
An announcement saying the imprint reads, “Storehouse Voices is knowledgeable by a deep understanding of the distinctive cultural and historic contexts of the Black expertise in America and dedicated to making sure that literary works by underrepresented authors are introduced authentically, respectfully and powerfully throughout the publishing and media panorama.”
This, in fact, dovetails with the final arc of Talbert’s profession, which, like Tyler Perry, started with stage performs geared toward telling Black tales to Black audiences.
In 2024, in an interview with Blex Media, the multihyphenate shared that “Jingle Jangle,” the 2020 Christmas film he wrote and directed which starred Forest Whitaker and Keegan Michael Key, was created due to his childhood expertise of feeling excluded from the fantasy style as a result of he didn’t typically see Black youngsters represented within the media of his youth.
In response to Deadline, in 2023, Talbert launched HBCU Subsequent, a fellowship program that he based and funded alongside his spouse and manufacturing companion Lyn Sisson-Talbert, in an effort to enrich the academic alternatives out there to aspiring filmmakers at HBCUs by bringing them to USC’s College of Cinematic Arts Summer time Program.
As Talbert advised Deadline concerning this system, “Our total goal is to foster an setting for college students from HBCUs and USC to have interaction in cultural change, studying from each other’s experiences and backgrounds, and to offer entry to an training conducive to giving Black storytellers a pipeline to the leisure trade.”
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