Latest Past Events

In Conversation with Ocean Vuong at Book Passage

Book Passage Corte Madera

Book Passage Bookstore & Cafe Presents: Ocean Vuong in conversation with Robert Jones, Jr. to discuss Vuong's brilliant novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, newly released in paperback. Thursday, June 17, 2021 5:30 p.m. PDT/8:30 p.m. EDT Tickets: $18.53 (book and ticket); $5 (ticket only) Link: https://www.bookpassage.com/oceanvuong 950|http://www.sonofbaldwin.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/210617-EV-800x800-1.jpg|full

In Conversation with Paul Mendez at Greenlight Bookstore

Greenlight Bookstore 686 Fulton Street, Brooklyn

Greenlight is excited to host Paul Mendez for his extraordinary debut novel, Rainbow Milk, an essential and revelatory coming-of-age narrative from a thrilling new voice. Nineteen-year-old Jesse is a bright and devout Jehovah’s Witness struggling under a repressive religious community to keep his queer desire a secret. As Jesse reckons with race, class, sexuality and spirituality...

THE PROPHETS VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR: The California African American Museum

California African American Museum

Celebrate Pride Month with author Robert Jones Jr. as he discusses his debut novel, The Prophets, with writer Maurice Carlos Ruffin, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and Dayton Literary Peace Prize. The Prophets tells of the forbidden union between two enslaved young men on a Mississippi plantation, the refuge they find in each other,...