Latest Past Events

THE PROPHETS VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR: Summer Solstice Conversation with Bookstagrammer Crystal Forte (@melanatedreader), Honorée Jeffers, and Kiese Laymon

Bookstagram AL

Please join popular Bookstagrammer Crystal Forte (better known as @melanatedreader), award-winning writers Honorée Jeffers (The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois), Kiese Laymon (Long Division), and Robert Jones, Jr. (The Prophets) for a summer solstice discussion about literature, their works, their Blacknesses, and their roles as artists. It's guaranteed to be a magical conversation. Monday, June 21, 2021...

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...