Washington D.C., DC —
Saga Boy Tour: Antonio Michael Downing at Loyalty Books with Darrel McLeod
Join Antonio Michael Downing in conversation with Darrel McLeod at Loyalty Books on September 22nd! Learn more here.
Washington Heights, NY —
Saga Boy Tour: Antonio Michael Downing at Word Up Books with Ed Pavlic
Join Antonio Michael Downing and Ed Pavlic at Word Up Community Bookshop on September 20th. Learn more here!
Chicago, IL —
Saga Boy Tour: Antonio Michael Downing at Unabridged Books, with Michael Kleber-Diggs
Please join Antonio Michael Downing at Unabridged Books on September 16th at 7:30pm (Central Time)! More details here!
Minneapolis, MN —
Saga Boy Tour: Antonio Michael Downing at Moon Palace Books, with Junauda Petrus-Nasah
Join Antonio Michael Downing in conversation with Junauda Petrus-Nasah on September 15th at 7pm (Central Time)! More information here!
Detroit, MI —
Saga Boy Tour: Antonio Michael Downing at Source Booksellers with Hanif Abdurraqib
Join Antonio Michael Downing at Source Booksellers with Hanif Abdurraquib on September 14th at 6pm (Central Time)! More details here!
Overland Park, KS —
Michael Kleber-Diggs in conversation with Hadara Bar Nadav
Join Michael Kleber-Diggs and Hadara Bar-Nadav for a conversation hosted by the Johnson County Public Library on December 7th. Register here!
Portland, OR —
Graceland, at Last Tour: Margaret Renkl in conversation with Mary Laura Philpott, hosted by Powell’s
Watch the Graceland, at Last Tour: Margaret Renkl in conversation with Mary Laura Philpott, hosted by Powell’s. More details here!
Nashville, TN —
Graceland, at Last Tour: Margaret Renkl in conversation with Wiley Cash, hosted by Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance
Watch the Graceland, at Last Tour: Margaret Renkl in conversation with Wiley Cash, hosted by Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance on 9/16 at 6pm CT. More details here!
Authors
Many Maxes: Performance as Legacy and an Invitation for You
Essay by Elizabeth Metzger
The night we met in Dorothea Lasky’s workshop at Columbia, Max Ritvo and I shared a taxi across the park where we were both living. I had recognized Max’s genius in the classroom, but it wasn’t until the cab ride after that I learned two defining things about Max: He was a performer by nature, and he was dying. I remember having trouble reconciling my impressions of him as an ebullient, whimsical life force breaking into song, holding my eyes on his for dramatically long spells with my understanding of the cold, lucid facts of his…
Maya Abu Al-Hayyat
Maya Abu Al-Hayyat is the director of the Palestine Writing Workshop, an institution that seeks to encourage reading in Palestinian communities through creative writing projects and storytelling with children and teachers.