Reading

Author of PEN Open Book Award–finalist “God Loves Haiti,” Dimitry Elias Léger shares his latest novel, part sports story and part passionate and improbable love story.

Author of National Book Award finalist I Hotel shares a new novel illuminating the lives of laborers, artists, scholars, informants, and activists who, over three generations, defined the Japanese American community post–Pearl Harbor.

Booker Prize–shortlisted author Madeleine Thien discusses her latest work, a “Time” Must-Read Book of the Year.

City of Asylum Writer-in-Residence shares a preview of the forthcoming English translation of his 2022 novel, a multi-generational mystery blending Brazilian, Syrian, Polish-Jewish, and West African Muslim threads, in conversation with the work’s Arabic-to-English translator.

City of Asylum welcomes back longtime friends and partners at Pittsburgh Poetry Collective for a night of poetry competition, audience participation, judge scrutiny, and community connection at the Steel City Poetry Slam.

Our final America at 250 program offers a personal meditation on and tribute to Black single motherhood from “one of the most important feminist writers of the 21st century” (Brittney Cooper).