by Nick Smerker | Jun 15, 2017 | Happenings
Margo Jefferson Thursday, June 27th 8:00 pm Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic and author Margo Jefferson will be reading from her multi-award winning autobiography Negroland, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Heartland Prize. Margo places a...
by Nick Smerker | May 13, 2017 | Happenings
Unoma Azuah Tuesday, May 23rd 8:00 pm Award-winning writer and LGBT activist Unoma Azuah (Nigeria) will be reading from her collection Blessed Body: Secret lives of LGBT Nigerians. Forced to live invisible lives because of Nigerian’s harsh anti-LGBT laws, the...
by Nick Smerker | May 3, 2017 | Happenings
Israel Centeno & Yaghoub Yadali Sunday, May 16th 8:00 pm City of Asylum exiled writers-in-residence Israel Centeno (Venezuela) & Yaghoub Yadali (Iran) will be reading excerpts from the novels that led to their exiles. City of Asylum commissioned translations,...
by Nick Smerker | Apr 18, 2017 | Happenings
Porochista Khakpour Friday, April 28th 8:00 pm Award-winning author Porochista Khakpour (Iran) will present her forthcoming work, Sick: A Life of Lyme, Love, Illness, and Addiction. The book is being published by Harper in 2018, and this is the first time it will be...
by Nick Smerker | Apr 11, 2017 | Happenings
Join City Books in celebration of National Poetry Month on Saturday, April 22 at 7:00 pm when we host two of Pittsburgh best local poets. Jennifer Jackson Berry’s first full length collection of poetry The Feeder was released from YesYes Books in December...
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