Back to All Events

Author Talk - Laurence Ralph

  • Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library - East Storefront A & B 901 G Street Northwest Washington, DC, 20001 United States (map)

A conversation with Laurence Ralph and Clint Smith

Join the Library and Loyalty Bookstores for a special conversation with Princeton University's Laurence Ralph for his new book Sito: An American Teenager and the City that Failed Him. In conversation with poet and author Clint Smith, Ralph will discuss this new account of the lived experience of urban danger, and about anger, fear, grief, vengeance, and ultimately grace.

Copies of the book will be available for sale and signing. A limited number of copies of the book will be available for free courtesy of the DC Public Library Foundation. 

Previous
Previous
February 28

Citywide TOPA Townhall

Next
Next
March 2

African Americans and Children's Literature: A Historical Examination of the Role of D.C. Writers