Hanif Abdurraqib: There’s Always This Year – Tempe, AZ

Don’t miss this upcoming 2024 Local Event in Tempe, AZ. Happening on Monday, October 28, 2024 at Changing Hands Bookstore. Doors open at 7:00 PM.

Poet, essayist, and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib shares his latest collection of essays.

Poet, essayist, and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib shares his latest collection of essays.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Growing up in Columbus, Ohio, in the 1990s, Hanif Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball, one in which legends like LeBron James were forged and countless others weren’t. His lifelong love of the game leads Abdurraqib into a lyrical, historical, and emotionally rich exploration of what it means to make it, who we think deserves success, the tension between excellence and expectation, and the very notion of role models, all of which he expertly weaves together with intimate, personal storytelling. “Here is where I would like to tell you about the form on my father’s jump shot,” Abdurraqib writes. “The truth, though, is that I saw my father shoot a basketball only one time.”

There’s Always This Year is a triumph, brimming with joy, pain, solidarity, comfort, outrage, and hope. No matter the subject of his keen focus–whether it’s basketball, or music, or performance–Hanif Abdurraqib’s exquisite writing is always poetry, always profound, and always a clarion call to radically reimagine how we think about our culture, our country, and ourselves.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio, and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” grant. His most recent book, A Little Devil in America, was the winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Gordon Burns Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award. His first collection of essays, They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, was named one of the books of the year by NPR, Esquire, BuzzFeed, O: The Oprah Magazine, Pitchfork, and Chicago Tribune, among others. Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest was a New York Times bestseller and a National Book Critics Circle Award and Kirkus Prize finalist and was longlisted for the National Book Award. He is a graduate of Beechcroft High School.

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Event ID - 1004788037067

Event Venue - Changing Hands Bookstore

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Date And Time

Monday, October 28th, 2024 @ 07:00 PM

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Changing Hands Bookstore

Location

6428 South McClintock Drive, Tempe, AZ 85283

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Film, Media & Entertainment Other

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Arizona Tempe

Hanif Abdurraqib: There’s Always This Year – Tempe, AZ