• Dominican Writers Association & Word Up: Rita Indiana in Washington Heights – Celebrating ASMODEUS

    Alianza Dominicana Cultural Center 530 West 166th Street New York, NY 10032

    A special evening with acclaimed Dominican writer, musician, and artist Rita Indiana in celebration of her new novel, Admodeus, a hallucinatory thriller about a failing demon’s search for a new host in post-dictatorship Santo Domingo. On this evening, Rita joins us for her first literary event in the neighborhood she calls home. She will be in conversation with Alex V. Cruz to discuss her return to fiction, and the intersections of literature, music, memory, Santo Domingo, identity, and place that have shaped her singular body of work.

    Free – $24
  • Word Up: Asale Angel-Ajani’s FUGITIVE ARCHIVE

    Word Up Community Bookshop 2113 Amsterdam Ave at 165th St., New York, NY, United States

    Word Up welcomes writer and anthropologist Asale Angel-Ajani to discuss her memoir Fugitive Archives: My Family and the American Myth of Belonging, an incisive, lyrical exploration of one family’s history that radically overturns American myths about race, violence, and belonging. In a moment defined by moral exhaustion, rising violence, and historical erasure, Fugitive Archives lays bare a nation’s unresolved past through one family’s story of grief, betrayal, courage, and love.

    Free – $30