LAUNCH: I'M NOT A GOOD PERSON, I'M A NEW YORKER by Jamal Hodge
About this Event
We're thrilled to welcome Jamal Hodge to The Twisted Spine in conversation with Sheree Renée Thomas (MOJORHYTHMON) on September 2!
About I'M NOT A GOOD PERSON, I'M A NEW YORKER:
From Bramstoker and Elgin Award Winner Jamal Hodge.
There’s no place like New York City, and yet, New York is like all places.
“Choose any path,” the city seems to say, “each street a doorway, each door, an unknown.”
I’m Not A Good Person, I’m A New Yorker is an exploration of New York’s many paths, a poetry mixtape about race, class, love, loss, and survival that uses a Black man’s lived experience to reveal the cultural architecture of the world’s greatest city.
This collection channels the spirits of Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and other poets of the Harlem Renaissance as it walks the long blocks between beauty and brutality, all beneath the bright lights of the city’s tender grotesqueries, its savage and wondrous togetherness.
About the Authors:
Jamal Hodge is a native New Yorker and an award-winning filmmaker, writer, and poet. A Bram Stoker Award Winner, a Nebula Award finalist, a Dwarf Stars winner (2nd), and an Elgin Award winner (3rd). Author of The Dark Between the Twilight, Everything Endless (with Linda D. Addison), I’m Not A Good Person I’m A New Yorker, and the editor of Bestiary of Blood: Modern Fables & Dark Tales, and Shards of Gotham: New York City Through the Looking Glass (June 2027).
Sheree Renée Thomas is an award-winning writer, editor, and educator. A three-time World Fantasy Award-winning editor and two-time Hugo Award Finalist, her work is inspired by myth and music, history and natural science, and ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. She is the Editor of the iconic The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949, and the Associate Editor of the historic literary journal Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, founded in 1975 during the Black Arts Movement. An Octavia E. Butler Award recipient, Ignyte Ember Award, and Locus Award Winner, her recent books include the fiction collections Mojorhythm, Ring Shout on Saturn, Nine Bar Blues,and the multigenre collections The Tongue I Dream In and Sleeping Under the Tree of Life.
Event Guidelines:
Each ticket includes either a paperback copy ofI'M NOT A GOOD PERSON, I'M A NEW YORKER or a $15 Twisted Spine gift card.
Additional copies of the books will be available for purchase at the event.
A signing will follow the discussion.
If you have any questions about the guidelines or need to request accessibility accommodations, please contact [email protected].
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 17.85 to USD 22.11
