This year, One Book One Bronx honors the lasting legacy of activist, scholar, and writer James Baldwin with a series of discussions, panels, screenings, and wellness, focusing on a wide range of literary works and ideas. Click here for details.

In Heads of the Colored People: Stories, Nafissa Thompson-Spires grapples with race, identity politics, and the contemporary middle class in this "vivid, fast, funny, way-smart, and verbally inventive" collection. Free books are available at in-person locations.

In-person at BAS: Saturdays, 12-1:30pm, Sept 14, 21, 28, Oct 5, & 12
9/14: Intros & free book distribution
9/21: pgs 1-50
9/28: pgs 51-105
10/5: pgs 106-157
10/12: pgs 161-end of book
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On Zoom: Tuesdays, 7-8:30pm, Sept 17, 24, Oct 1, & 8
9/17: pgs 1-50
9/24: pgs 51-105
10/1: pgs 106-157
10/8:: pgs 161-end of book
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