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This is a ticketed event and registration is required. The cost of the ticket includes a copy of There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension. Hanif Abdurraqib returns to Baltimore to celebrate the release of his new book There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension! Hanif will be in conversation with Teri Henderson, Arts and Culture Editor of Baltimore Beat.
Join Greedy Reads at The Garage at R. House on Tuesday, April 30 at 7pm. Additional books by Hanif Abdurraqib will be available for purchase at the event.
About THERE'S ALWAYS THIS YEAR: ON BASKETBALL AND ASCENSION
A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, life, and home—from the author of the National Book Award finalist A Little Devil in America
“Mesmerizing . . . not only the most original sports book I’ve ever read but one of the most moving books I’ve ever read, period.”—Steve James, director of Hoop Dreams
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.
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 K*ll Us Until They K*ll 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.
Teri Henderson is the Arts and Culture Editor of Baltimore Beat. She is the author of the 2021 book Black Collagists. Previously, she was a staff writer for BmoreArt, gallery coordinator for Connect + Collect, and served on the board of Maryland Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts. Henderson was a 2020 Momus Emerging Critics Resident and is currently a 2023-2024 Poynter-Koch Media and Journalism Fellow.
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R. House, 301 W 29th St,Baltimore,MD,United States
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