EVENT UPDATE: Hanif Abdurraqib will be in conversation with Kaveh Akbar in place of Tommy Orange, who is unable to attend.
Iranian American writer Kaveh Akbar is a recipient of multiple Pushcart Prizes and the author of two acclaimed poetry collections including Calling a Wolf a Wolf (2017) and Pilgrim Bell (2021). In 2016, he published the chapbook Portrait of the Alcoholic about his ongoing struggles with addiction, a theme that he continued in his stellar first novel, Martyr!, published in 2024.
Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His work has appeared in The FADER, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. His first poetry collection, The Crown Ain't Worth Much (2016), was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Prize. His first collection of essays, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us (2017), was named a book of the year by multiple outlets. In 2021, A Little Devil In America was released and became a finalist for several prestigious awards and won the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. His most recent book, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension, won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
In-person event information
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Book signings will be in the PNC lobby immediately following each show
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Come early to the event to purchase a copy of the author's book, courtesy of Barnes & Noble.