Program Description
Event Details
Join us for an evening with award winning author and Yonkers native James Hannaham at the Yonkers Public Library. His most recent novel, Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta (Little, Brown), won the 2023 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction and was hailed as “wondrous” and “a hilarious, righteous transgender remix of The Odyssey.” A celebration of public libraries, and the Will library in particular, don’t miss this special event on the power of reading and storytelling.
This event will include a reading and conversation with Joseph Earl Thomas, including audience Q & A. Books will be for sale courtesy of our local indie bookstore.
**Register on the program's Eventbrite page**
About James Hannaham
Yonkers native James Hannaham is the author of the novels God Says No, a Stonewall Book Award finalist, and Delicious Foods, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize and Dayton Literary Peace Prize finalist as well as a New York Times Notable Book. His most recent novel, Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta, won the 2023 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction. He lives in Brooklyn, where he teaches at the Pratt Institute.
About Joseph Earl Thomas
Joseph Earl Thomas is the author of Sink, a memoir (Grand Central Publishing, 2022), longlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, the novel God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer (Grand Central Publishing, 2024), and the forthcoming story collection Leviathan Beach (Grand Central, 2025). His writing has been published in The Kenyon Review, The Paris Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Dilettante Army, and The New York Times Book Review. His honors include the 2020 Chautauqua Janus Prize, and fellowships from Kimbilio, VONA, Tin House and Bread Loaf. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame’s MFA program in prose, he earned his PhD in English from The University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the writing faculty at Sarah Lawrence College, and teaches courses in Black Studies, Poetics, Video Games, Queer Theory and more at The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research.
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Free and open to public
It is assumed that all events are free and open to the general public. If admittance will be restricted in any way, that must be indicated on the application. The Library reserves the right to have staff and/or Board members in attendance even if the program is otherwise closed to the general public.