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National Book Award winner Justin Torres in conversation with Lupita Aquino.
Celebrate World Pride with a special evening with novelist Justin Torres. In conversation with Lupita Aquino, Torres will explore his work and the world of queer Latinx voices.
Copies of the book will be available for sale and signing with Loyalty Bookstores.
About the author and moderator:
Justin Torres is the author of Blackouts, which won the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction, was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Lambda Literary award, and the Southern California Book Award. A 2024 Guggenheim Fellow, he’s also received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center. His first novel, We the Animals was a national bestseller and adapted into a feature film. He lives Los Angeles, and is an associate professor of English at UCLA.
Lupita Aquino—better known as Lupita Reads—is a passionate literary enthusiast amplifying and highlighting books written by authors of color through her Instagram blog. She currently lives in the greater Washington, D.C. area, and you can find her on Instagram at @lupita.reads, on Twitter at @Lupita_Reads, or catch her writing about books for shereads.com or via her column over at Washington Independent Review of Books.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | LGBTQ Pride | Author Talk |
