Name: Readers & Writers Live: Gabriel Bump and Nathaniel Pinkham
Start: 2026-02-11T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2026-02-11T20:00:00-05:00
Location: 20 West St, Northampton, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01060

Readers & Writers Live: Gabriel Bump and Nathaniel Pinkham
Writers Gabriel Bump and Nathaniel Pinkham will read and discuss their work as part of the Readers & Writers Live series.
Readers and Writers Live is a revival of an author reading series that was produced by the now closed Globe Bookshop on Pleasant Street in the 1980’s and 1990’s. The new edition, at the Forbes Library, takes place in the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library and Museum on the second Wednesday of each month.
This event will also be livestreamed on the Forbes Library YouTube channel. Click here to view.
About the writers:
Gabriel Bump grew up in South Shore, Chicago. His debut novel, Everywhere You Don’t Belong, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2020 and has won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for Fiction, the Heartland Booksellers Award for Fiction, and the Black Caucus of the American Library Association’s First Novelist Award. His second novel, The New Naturals, was a Washington Post, Boston Globe, and New York Times Notable Book of 2023. His third novel is forthcoming from Algonquin. He teaches for the UMass-Amherst MFA for Poets and Writers, his alma mater.
Nathaniel Pinkham is a writer from New England. He studies at the MFA for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he is currently a candidate in Prose. His work has appeared in Samjoko Magazine, Jabberwocky, and Honeysuckle Magazine. He lives in Northampton, MA. Pinkham will read “The Fire” an excerpt from his novel, in progress. Set in the fictional town of Peterboro, Vermont, the novel centers on Morris who has just been let go from his job. No longer wishing to live, he rides the bus into town, intending to buy a rope with which to hang himself, when he hears a rumor of massive, near-biblical pillars of fire. Seeing the light, Morris decides to stay his hand, trying to determine if life is a thing truly worth living.