Solitude Social Club: A Bookish Happy Hour with francine j. harris
Solitude Social Club is Hugo House’s offering to readers and writers seeking connection during the social quarantine.
Each week we’ll bring a guest writer to share a drink and discuss how they’re finding happiness through art and literature in these distancing times. After the conversation, we’ll break out into smaller groups and get to know one another.
RSVP below to join the Zoom conversation, or find us streaming on Facebook Live.
All events will happen at 5 p.m. PST / 8 p.m. EST.
francine j. harris is the author of play dead, winner of the Lambda Literary and Audre Lorde Awards and a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Her first collection, allegiance, was a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery and PEN Open Book Awards. Originally from Detroit, she has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. She is an associate professor of English at the University of Houston. Her third collection, Here is the Sweet Hand, will be published by FSG on August 4, 2020.
- April 10: Rebecca Makkai
- April 17: Laura van den Berg
- April 24: Jess Walter
- May 1: Christina Chiu
- May 8: francine j. harris
- May 22: Marie-Helene Bertino
