Greenlight celebrates the re-opening of its stores with a star-studded evening with many of our favorite authors, MC’ed by poet Saeed Jones! Listen to Jia Tolentino read a nonfiction piece about her unborn child; Nathan Englander read from the beginning of his novel kaddish.com; Min Jin Lee read from an essay about public speaking from the New York Times; Jonathan Lethem surprise us by reading his poetry; Nicole Dennis-Benn read from her novel Patsy; Colson Whitehead read from his not-yet-published next novel Harlem Shuffle; Lev Grossman read from his forthcoming children's novel The Silver Arrow; Ann Patchett read from her piece about running an indie bookstore in a pandemic; Ta-Nehisi Coates read Richard Wright's poem "Between the World and Me"; Valeria Luiselli read a piece about listening to sirens with her ten-year-old; and Jennifer Egan read from her novel The Keep. (Recorded July 2, 2020)
The Greenlight Bookstore Podcast