Staff Pick Favorite: Daniel Alarcón

The King is Always Above the People with Daniel Alarcón Wednesday, January 137:00 pm A special evening from our archives, selected by staff as a past favorite, Daniel Alarcón reads from his novel The King is Always Above the People.  This program is an intimate...

Young Adult Author Sharon Flake Book Launch

The Life I’m In Book Launch & Celebration Tuesday, January 53:00 pm Pittsburgh-based author Sharon Flake’s groundbreaking young adult novel, The Skin I’m In, was released in 2000 to tremendous critical acclaim—lauded for exploring issues of race...

LatinX & Proud! Reading Series Returns

LatinX & Proud! Reading Series With poets Casandra López and Angela Velez,musician FeralCat, and surprise host Eloisa Amezcua  Tuesday, November 177:00 PM Our LatinX & Proud! Reading Series is celebrating its first birthday, and one year of empowering local...

Sadie Hoagland THIS SATURDAY at 7:00 pm

Please join us on Saturday, February 8th at 7:00 pm when we welcome Sadie Hoagland to City Books. Refreshments will be served. Hoagland’s new collection of short stories, American Grief in Four Stages explores the possibility of elegy and the inability of our culture...

The Consequences of Corporate Corruption

Kickback: Exposing the Global Bribery Network Tuesday, January 14th7:00 pm The World Bank estimates that rich multinational corporations pay hundreds of billions of dollars in bribes every year to officials overseas. The perpetrators are not a handful of rogue...