Category: Author Signing

Saturday, May 19, 7pm – Fiction Gregory Tkac author of Boy Meets Girl, The End Cecil is your typical happy-go-lucky guy, content with his life just the way that it is – and why shouldn’t he be? He’s got everything he could possibly want: a good job and his own place in the city, a…

Wednesday, May 23, 7pm – Non-Fiction Echele Ganas – Do Your Best – Photographs on the village of Tonalapa (Mexico) This collection of photographs from award winning photographer/filmmaker Laurence Salzmann focuses on the village of Tonalapa, situated in the northern region of the state of Puebla. The village is a microcosm of the many hundreds…

Thursday, May 24, 7pm – Memoir Charles Cantalupo is author of Joining Africa – From Anthills to Asmara Charles Cantalupo, author of Joining Africa – From Anthills to Asmara, is Distinguished Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and African Studies at Penn State. His translations include three books of Eritrean poetry, We Have Our Voice and…

Tuesday, May 29, 7pm – Graphic Arts Russ Kick editor of and Robert Berry (contributor) to the Graphic Canon (3 volume set $90.) The Graphic Canon has been hailed as “the graphic publishing literary event of the year,” by Publisher’s Weekly and it’s editor Russ Kick will be embarking on an East Coast tour of…

Thursday, April 12, 7pm – Fiction John Gilmore author of Reunion of Souls ($16.95 iuniverse) Roy Bodger is a charismatic Baptist minister and dedicated seeker of God. Something happens that Roy doesn’t expect during a near death experience-an answer to his prayers. He sees God, but she is a pagan goddess. The beautiful golden figure…

Wednesday April 25, 7pm – Fiction An Evening with Samuel R. Delany Samuel R. Delany is a critic and novelist with essays and interviews in seven volumes. The most recent four are Silent Interviews (1994), Longer Views (1996), Shorter Views (1999), and About Writing (2006). His award winning autobiography The Motion of Light in Water…

Saturday April 7, 10:30am – Non-Fiction Avrum Geurin Weiss author of Change Happens: When to Try Harder and When to Stop Trying So Hard ($29.95 Rowman & Littlefield Pub) Change Happens is at once an emotionally resonant and stimulating book that will touch a deep chord with readers who are seeking to understand the big…

Friday, March 30, 7pm – Fiction James Goertel author of Carry Each His Burden ($11.00 CreateSpace) CARRY EACH HIS BURDEN is the debut fiction collection by James Goertel. Drawing from his background as an academic, media freelancer, and screenwriter, Goertel’s writing is at once cinematic, richly crafted, and fiercely original. The five stories within are…

Wednesday February 15, 7pm – Non-Fiction Alondra Nelson author of Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination ($24.95 University of Minnesota Press) The legacy of the Black Panther Party’s commitment to community health care, a central aspect of its fight for social justice Alondra Nelson recovers a lesser-known aspect…

Sunday, November 27, 4pm – Fiction Amina Gautier author of At-Risk ($24.95 University of Georgia Press) In Amina Gautier’s Brooklyn, some kids make it and some kids don’t, but not in simple ways or for stereotypical reasons. Gautier’s stories explore the lives of young African Americans who might all be classified as “at-risk,” yet who…