June 5

Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library (DC Public Library)
901 G Street Northwest
Washington, DC 20001

Brought to you by Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library (DC Public Library)

Life, Work, and queer Latinx voices in literature with Justin Torres. In conversation with Lupita Aquino, National Book Award Winning author Justin Torres will explore his work and the world of queer Latinx voices.

About the speakers:
Justin Torres is the author of Blackouts, which won the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction, was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Lambda Literary award, and the Southern California Book Award. A 2024 Guggenheim Fellow, he’s also received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center. His first novel, We the Animals was a national bestseller and adapted into a feature film. He lives Los Angeles, and is an associate professor of English at UCLA.

Lupita Aquino is the creator of a popular Instagram account – @Lupita.Reads, which has turned into a passionate bookish movement to build literary social media spaces for readers to connect. The @Lupita.Reads spaces are dedicated to building human connections through literature by highlighting the importance of reading and discussing books by authors of different backgrounds, ethnicities, and identities.

Sponsored by the DC Public Library Foundation and the Capital Pride Alliance in partnership with Loyalty Bookstore