Paige Lewis w/ Special Guests Kaveh Akbar, John Green, & Sarah Urist Green

Join us for an evening with Paige Lewis to launch their debut novel, "Canon", along with special guests:

• Kaveh Akbar (Martyr!)
• John Green (Everything is Tuberculosis)
• Sarah Urist Green (You are an Artist)

Paige Lewis and friends will play a live version of The Newlywed Game, as well as discuss "Canon" and the authors' works.

Each ticket includes a copy of "Canon" - books by the guest authors will be available for purchase at the event.

The event will be hosted in the Indiana Landmarks' Grand Hall in partnership with Indiana Humanities and Indy Pride.

Paige Lewis is the author of the poetry collection Space Struck and coeditor of Another Last Call: Poems on Addiction and Deliverance. Lewis teaches at the University of Iowa. Canon is their first novel.

Kaveh Akbar's poems appear in the New Yorker, New York Times, Paris Review, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. He is the author of two poetry collections: Pilgrim Bell (Graywolf 2021) and Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Alice James 2017), in addition to a chapbook, Portrait of the Alcoholic (Sibling Rivalry 2016). He is also the editor of The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 100 Poets on the Divine (Penguin Classics 2022). Martyr! (Knopf, 2024), Kaveh’s first novel, was a New York Times Bestseller, the 2024 recipient of the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize for Fiction, a 2024 Discover Prize Finalist, and a 2024 National Book Award Finalist.

John Green is the award-winning, #1 bestselling author of books including Looking for Alaska, The Fault in Our Stars, Turtles All the Way Down, The Anthropocene Reviewed, and Everything is Tuberculosis. His new novel, Hollywood, Ending, will be published on September 22 this year. With his brother, Hank, John has co-created many online video projects, including Vlogbrothers and the educational channel Crash Course. John's books have won many prizes, including an Audie Award, an Edgar Award, the Michael L. Printz Medal, and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. John lives with his family in Indianapolis. You can visit him online at johngreenbooks.com.

Sarah Urist Green is a curator and art educator. Through her work in online education, Green demystifies the worlds of art, artists, and museums for wide audiences. She is the host and consulting producer of Crash Course Art History and creator of The Art Assignment (2014-2020), a PBS web series that grew to include over 675,000 subscribers and has more than 35 million views. Her book You Are an Artist brings together assignments devised by some of the most innovative artists working today. Green’s curatorial work since 2020 has focused on building infrastructure for impactful public art experience in Indianapolis through her organization Monumental Gestures. She is the former curator of contemporary art at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, where she organized the exhibitions Graphite and Andy Warhol Enterprises, among others, and was instrumental in developing The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park: 100 Acres.

Thanks to our event partners:

Indiana Humanities is a statewide nonprofit that infuses the humanities into our daily lives. They do this by providing grants, convening discussions, uplifting humanities scholars, spotlighting humanities organizations and activities, and creating their own programs that help Hoosiers think, read and talk. Learn more at www.indianahumanities.org

Tomorrow Bookstore is a general interest independent bookstore in the heart of Indianapolis that believes that to read is to question the self, question systems, and question our place in the world. It is also to get lost, to escape, and to adventure. Owned by South African immigrants, their global selection explores the full kaleidoscope of human experiences and says: here you are, here is why, and here's what's next.

Indy Pride exists to uplift and unite the LGBTQ+ community of Central Indiana through year-round programming, advocacy, education, and celebration. They create spaces where people can belong, feel affirmed, and connect across differences. Guided by their values—joy, equity, connection, and accountability—they work to support the well-being, visibility, and leadership of LGBTQ+ Hoosiers.

Sarabande Books is an award-winning, internationally-distributed, nonprofit, independent literary publishing house founded in 1994 in Louisville, Kentucky. With nearly three hundred titles in print, we have earned a dedicated readership and a national reputation as a publisher of diverse forms and innovative voices. Through our free arts programming, we are proud to invest in emerging writers and serve as an educational resource locally and nationally. Sarabande Books champions innovative voices in poetry, short fiction, essay, and literature in translation. We’re committed to creating lasting editions that honor exceptional writing.

Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.

Get App

Host or Publisher Tomorrow Bookstore