
Hanif Abdurraqib Author Talk: There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
Poet, essayist, and cultural critic, Hanif Abdurraqib will read from and discuss his latest book, There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension, a book that is “a meditation on beauty, grief and mortality through the lens of basketball and Columbus, Ohio… but it’s also about… loss and time- which is to say, it’s about everything.” (NYT, 2024).
There will be an opportunity for a Q&A and book signing. Fact & Fiction Bookstore will be on-hand to sell copies of the book. Doors at 6:00pm, program begins at 6:30pm.
BIO: Hanif Abdurraqib is an award-winning poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His newest release, There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension (Random House, 2024) is a New York Times Bestseller. His previous book, A Little Devil In America (Random House, 2021) was a winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal and the Gordon Burn Prize. In 2021, Abdurraqib was named a MacArthur Fellow, and in 2024 was named a Windham-Campbell Prize recipient. He is a graduate of Beechcroft High School.
Date
- Oct 02 2024
- Expired!
Time
- 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Location
- Cooper Room
- Level Four, Missoula Public Library, 455 E. Main St, Missoula, MT
- SU
- MO
- TU
- WE
- TH
- FR
- SA
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