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2.20.25 | 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Fiction writer Sidik Fofana will read as part of the Third Thursday Reading Series. Fofana is a graduate of NYU’s MFA program and a 2003 Whiting Award-winner. Stories from the Tenants Downstairs, his debut short story collection composed of eight narratives about residents of a fictional building in Harlem, was published by Scribner in 2022 and won the Gotham Book Prize. It was named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, Chicago Review of Books, LitHub, and Electric Lit. Fofana is a public school teacher in Brooklyn.