Summer Reads: R. Eric Thomas

UPDATE 6/14: Unfortunately, this event must be postponed due to unforeseen circumstances. We are planning to reschedule R. Eric for another date. Thank you for your understanding.

R. Eric Thomas is the bestselling author of Here for It, or How to Save Your Soul in America, a Read with Jenna book club pick featured on Today, and a Lambda Literary Award finalist. He is the co-author of Reclaiming Her Time, a biography of Rep. Maxine Waters. He is also a television writer (AppleTV+’s Dickinson, FX’s Better Things), a playwright, and the long-running host of The Moth in Philadelphia and D.C. For four years, he was a senior staff writer at Elle.com where he wrote: “Eric Reads the News.” Kings of B’more is his YA debut. Presented by A Likely Story Bookstore and Carroll County Public Library in partnership with Carroll Citizens for Racial Equity and PFLAG Westminster - Carroll County. 

This program is supported by the American Rescue Plan: Humanities Grants for Libraries an initiative of the American Library Association (ALA) made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) through the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.