UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI VONA/VOICES WORKSHOP: Join us in celebrating the works of writers of color in this reading by the faculty of the VONA/Voices Workshop, including Chris Abani, fiction instructor, Elmaz Abinader, memoir instructor, M. Evelina Galang, residency director and Willie Perdomo, poetry instructor, demonstrating the power of VONA’s community and the works of writers of color. VONA/Voices (www.voicesatvona.org) is the longest running multi-genre workshop for writers-of color. In the summer, the workshop week is held at the University of California at Berkeley, and in January at the University of Miami.  Over 1000 writers have participated in the VONA/Workshops. 

ADAM MANSBACH, the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Go the F**k to Sleep, returns with a fearless new novel Rage is Back (Viking, $25.95) about a too-wise kid and the father who left him, the price of revenge and the greatest graffiti stunt New York City has ever seen. Rage is Back delivers a mind-bending journey through a subterranean world of epic heroes and villains. Moving through the city’s unseen communities, from the tunnel camps of the Mole People to the drug dens of Crown Heights, Rage is Back is many things: a dramatic, hilarious thrill ride and a love letter to New York that introduces the most powerful urban underdog narrator this side of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.