Ta-Nehisi Coates is the author of The Beautiful Struggle, We Were Eight Years in Power, and Between the World and Me, which won the National Book Award in 2015. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. He lives in New York City with his wife and son.
Ryan Coogler is a film director, producer, and screenwriter. His first feature film, Fruitvale Station (2013), won the top audience and grand jury awards in the U.S. dramatic competition at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. He has since co-written and directed the seventh film in the Rocky series, Creed(2015), and the Marvel film Black Panther (2018), the latter of which broke numerous box office records and became the highest-grossing film of all time by a Black director.
Location
This program will take place at the West Angeles Cathedral
3600 Crenshaw Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90016.
Directions and Parking
Tickets
All tickets and books are non-refundable. All tickets will include an unsigned copy of the featured book, The Water Dancer, which will be distributed the night of the program. Please don’t forget to keep your tickets handy, either in the Eventbrite app or print them out and bring them with you.
Book Signing
There will not be a book signing following the program.
Photo Credit: Ta-Nehisi Coates © Gabriella Demczuk
Co-presented with Eso Won Books & Chevalier’s Books
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