Please join us for our next READ 718 Reads! with Hua Hsu to discuss his book, Stay True: A Memoir. READ 718 Reads! is an intimate evening (max 40 guests) which allows for direct conversation with the author. Dinner and drinks will be served.

Accolades for Stay True: A Memoir include the following:

A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR • From New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art.

“This book is exquisite and excruciating and I will be thinking about it for years and years to come.” —Rachel Kushner, two-time National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of The Flamethrowers and The Mars Room.

2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, long-listed

Hua Hsu is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a professor of Literature at Bard College. Hsu serves on the executive board of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. He was formerly a fellow at the New America Foundation and the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center at the New York Public Library. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his family.

Get your copy (if you haven't read it already) and join us. Lots to discuss!

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All proceeds from this event directly support READ 718 programming. We will serve more kids than ever before in the 2022-2023 academic year. 

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