Join us for an evening of conversation and cocktails, at Madama Fortuna’s, on Main Street Sip on Absente’s signature drinks while mingling with literary luminaries whose works is redefining queer narratives.
Hosted by Marlon James.
Art by Paul Plumadore.
Date
Jun 21, 2025, 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Featuring
Marlon James
Marlon James is the author of the New York Times-bestseller Black Leopard, Red Wolf, which was a finalist for the National Book Award for fiction in 2019. His novel A Brief History of Seven Killings won the 2015 Man Booker Prize. It was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for fiction, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for fiction, and the Minnesota Book Award. James is also the author of The Book of Night Women, which won the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Minnesota Book Award, and was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction and an NAACP Image Award. His first novel, John Crow’s Devil, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for first fiction. He is the creator of the five-part HBO thriller, Get Millie Black, adapted from his own short story of the same name.
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