Events
Spring Lit Camp 2021
Don’t miss out on attending Powerhouse’s latest Middle Grade Lit Camp program! Spring Lit Camp includes virtual book club meetings every two weeks to discuss five brand-new middle-grade novels. The discussion will be led by Brittany, our beloved Children’s Book Specialist, and as an extra bonus, campers have the unique opportunity to do a Q&A with the author directly.
Virtual Book Launch: Creative Types by Tom Bissell in conversation with Adrienne Miller
Tom Bissell vividly renders the complex worlds of characters on the brink of artistic and personal crisis–writers, actors, and other creative types who see things slightly differently from the rest of us. Surreal, poignant, squirmingly awkward–and always just a little bit off–this collection is a brilliant new offering from one of the most versatile and talented writers in America today.
Virtual Book Launch: CAN’T STOP WON’T STOP: A Hip-Hop History (YA Edition)
POWERHOUSE @ the ArchwayThe American Book Award Winner has now been adapted for Young Adults!! Hip-hop is one of the most dominant and influential cultures in America, giving new voice to the younger generation. An opportunity to provide historical depth to the next generation’s worldview, the YA edition of CAN’T STOP WON’T STOP explores hip-hop’s beginnings up to the present day.
Virtual Book Launch: Ivy & Bean Get To Work with ANNIE BARROWS and SOPHIE BLACKALL
Join author Annie Barrows and illustrator Sophie Blackall to celebrate the launch of IVY AND BEAN GET TO WORK, the exciting conclusion to the bestselling Ivy and Bean series!
Virtual Book Launch: The Golden Age of the American Essay by Phillip Lopate
Join Philip Lopate as he talks about his new, one-of-a-kind anthology of American essays, on a wide range of subjects by a dazzling array of mid-century writers at the top of their form.
Virtual Book Launch: The Night Always Comes by Willy Vlautin in conversation with Franz Nicolay
Set over two days and two nights, THE NIGHT ALWAYS COMES follows Lynette’s frantic search across the city, encountering pervasive greed, money old and new, those who are benefiting and those left behind by a city in boom. Desperate for help that doesn’t come, she makes a dangerous choice that sets her on a precarious, frenzied spiral.
YA Book Club - The Gilded Ones
Register to join Powerhouse’s Virtual YA Book Club! The first meeting is discussing “The Gilded Ones” by Namina Forna