"DIDN'T NOBODY GIVE A SH*T WHAT HAPPENED TO CARLOTTA" CELEBRATION & READING
IMAGE: Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham (2022) Artwork by Tulsa Artist Fellowship Awardee Kalup Linzy
Featuring Author James Hannaham
Presented by PEN America, Queen Rose Art House, TYPROS, Fulton Street Books, & Tulsa Artist Fellowship
Pre-reading Celebration
Saturday, May 20, 2023 | 5 pm
Queen Rose Art House x 843 N. Birmingham Place
Reading
Sunday, May 21, 2023 | 4pm
Fulton Street Books x 210 W. Latimer St.
On May 20th and 21st, PEN Tulsa and author James Hannaham, in collaboration with interdisciplinary artist Kalup Linzy, TYPROS, the Tulsa Artist Fellowship, the Queen Rose House, and Fulton Street Books and Coffee, will host two free expression-centered events. These events will celebrate Hannaham’s latest novel, Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta, while also addressing the homophobia and transphobia embedded in the recent wave of book bans in Oklahoma and across the country.
Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta, is a 2023 Lambda Literary Award nominee in Transgender Fiction and New York Times 100 Notable Book of 2022. This darkly comic and incisive novel follows a trans woman who re-enters life on the outside after more than twenty years in a men’s prison.
On May 20th, at Kalup Linzy will host “Carlotta: The Party” at the Queen Rose Art House, described as a joyous celebration of queerness and free expression. The Queen Rose Art house is located at 843 North Birmingham Place, Tulsa. Doors open at 5:00 PM local time. This event will feature live performances, information on how to push back against recent LGBTQ-focused book bans, and a joyous dance party DJ’d by DJ Kylie. The party is 21+. Tickets are $5 with all proceeds going to the Queen Rose Art House.
On May 21st at 4:00 PM, Fulton Street Bookstore and Coffee will host James Hannaham for “Carlotta: the Reading,” a thought provoking conversation with the author. James will discuss his inspiration for the novel and his thoughts on the ongoing censorship of queer voices in Oklahoma and across the country. Fulton Street Books and Coffee is located at 210 W Latimer St, Tulsa.
IMAGE: Featured in Interview Magazine, James Hannaham Connects the Dots Between the Tragic and the Absurd, by Kalup Linzy. Photographed by Miranda Barnes
James Hannaham is the author of the novels God Says No, a Stonewall Book Award finalist, and Delicious Foods, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize and Dayton Literary Peace Prize finalist as well as a New York Times Notable Book. He lives in Brooklyn, where he teaches at the Pratt Institute.
VISITOR EXPERIENCE
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