Come ready to this reading series from Durham’s own Bull City Press for engaging poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from established and emerging writers.

May 24 at 5:00 pm (book signing at 6:45): A. Kendra Greene & Joanna Pearson with Golden Age Comedy

A. Kendra Greene is the author and illustrator of The Museum of Whales You Will Never See and No Less Strange or Wonderful. At eighteen, she interned at Chile’s national zoo because there was no more sensible place to send a philosophy major. She became an essayist during a Fulbright in South Korea while she was supposed to be making photographs. She has an MFA in nonfiction and a graduate certificate in book arts from the University of Iowa, where she was both a Jacob K. Javits fellow and costumer to a giant ground sloth.  Briefly a high school math and science teacher, she has since taught creative writing, with a bent for text and image and object, at the University of Iceland, UNC Chapel Hill, and UT Dallas. 

Joanna Pearson’s debut novel, Bright and Tender Dark (Bloomsbury, 2024), was an Indie Next Pick and an Amazon Editors’ Pick.  She’s also the author of two short story collections, Now You Know It All (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021), chosen by Edward P. Jones for the 2021 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, and Every Human Love (Acre Books, 2019). Her fiction has recently appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Mystery and Suspense, The Missouri Review, The Southern Review, and other places.  She lives in Carrboro, NC. photo by Danelle Beede

Golden Age is an all-star cast of improvisers. Each night, they welcome one special guest to share art and insights. Their experiences inspired their work, now they inspire hilarious conversation and comedy.

Admission: Free!