Leila Mottley with Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

23 JUNE 2022 — thursday

City Lights Books, in conjunction with the Mechanics' Institute Library, presents Leila Mottley, the 2018 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate, discussing her debut novel, Nightcrawling, a dazzling story about a young Black woman living in Oakland as she runs up against the failures of its justice system, in conversation with novelist Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, The Revisioners, winner of the 2020 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, in person at the Mechanics' Institute Library, 57 Post Street, San Francisco, sliding scale admission, no one turned away due to lack of funds, 6:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: citylights.com/events)