# Event Details

- **Event Name**: On Morrison - Namwali Serpell in conversation with Cathy Park Hong
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 12 Mar, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Thu, 12 Mar, 2026 at 08:30 pm
- **Event Description**: An illuminating, electrifying exploration of the work of Toni Morrison by an award-winning novelist and Harvard professor.About this EventJoin award-winning novelist and critic Namwali Serpell for a conversation on her new work, On Morrison, a deeply insightful reflection on the art, politics, and enduring power of Toni Morrison’s writing. In this intimate discussion, Serpell explores how Morrison transformed language, narrative, and our understanding of Black life and literature. Namwali will be in conversation for Cathy Park Hong.Books will be available for purchase from the historic Marcus Books.Namwali Serpell was born in Lusaka and lives in New York. Her debut novel, The Old Drift, won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction, and the Los Angeles Times’s Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Her second novel, The Furrows, was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and was selected as one of The New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year. Her book of essays, Stranger Faces, was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. She is a recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction, the Caine Prize for African Writing, and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award. She is a professor of English at Harvard University. Cathy Park Hong is the author of three poetry collections including Dance Dance Revolution, chosen by Adrienne Rich for the Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Engine Empire. Hong is a recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Her poems have been published in Poetry, The New York Times, The Paris Review, McSweeney's, The Boston Review, and other journals. She is the poetry editor of the New Republic and full professor at the Rutgers University-Newark MFA program in poetry.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/oakland/on-morrison-namwali-serpell-in-conversation-with-cathy-park-hong/100001982516203332
- **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art
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- **city**: Oakland
- **state**: CA
- **country**: United States
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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 12 Mar, 2026 at 06:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Hive, 2335 Broadway, Oakland, United States
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- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Bay Area Book Festival
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
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