Award-winning poet, essayist, and 2021 MacArthur Fellow Hanif Abdurraqib (There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension, A Little Devil in America) and 2020 Booker Prize-winning and bestselling novelist Douglas Stuart (Shuggie Bain, Young Mungo) read from their recent work in the 2024-25 Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series.
This event is cosponsored by the Lewis Center for the Arts and Labyrinth Books.
About the Authors
Hanif Abdurraqib. Photo credit: Kate Sweeney
Hanif Abdurraqib is an award-winning poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His newest release, There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension (Random House, 2024) is a New York Times Bestseller. His previous book, A Little Devil In America (Random House, 2021) was a winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal and the Gordon Burn Prize. In 2021, Abdurraqib was named a MacArthur Fellow, and in 2024 was named a Windham-Campbell Prize recipient. He is a graduate of Beechcroft High School.
Douglas Stuart. Photo credit: Martyn Pickersgill
Douglas Stuart is a New York Times bestselling author whose work has been translated into over forty languages. His debut novel, Shuggie Bain, won the 2020 Booker Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award. It was named both the British Book of the Year and Debut of the Year at the 2021 British Book Awards, as well as being a finalist for over 20 other literary awards. His latest novel, Young Mungo, was a Sunday Times number-one bestseller and a finalist for the Carnegie Medal. His essays on gender, class and conformity have featured on LitHub and his short stories are published in The New Yorker. He is currently working on adapting both of his novels for A24 pictures. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Stuart has a Masters from the Royal College of Art and since 2000, he has lived and worked in New York City.
Admission & Details
The reading is free and open to the public; no tickets required.
Directions
Get directions to Labyrinth Bookstore, located at 122 Nassau Street in Princeton.
Accessibility
Labyrinth Books is an accessible venue. Visit our Venues and Studios section for accessibility information at our various locations. Guests in need of access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least one week in advance of the event date.
