Events

Baseball is the national pastime of both the United States and Japan, but the two countries approach and play the game differently both on the field and away from it.

To shed light on these differences and help fans gain a greater appreciation for Nippon Professional Baseball, Robert K. Fitts turns to the true experts, the people who play, oversee, promote, and watch the game, to find out what makes Japanese baseball special. In the Japanese Ballpark features engaging interviews with twenty-six baseball personalities to provide a behind-the-scenes look at the game. More Info

Join us at Oblong Books for a Poetry Reading with D.M. Aderibigbe – The poems in Aderibigbe’s acclaimed collection – 82ND DIVISION – are written in various forms including the villanelle, sonnet, blues poem, duplex, ode, and dramatic monologue, among many others, are collectively a love song to the author’s native Nigeria. More Info

Join us for a booksigning with author David Fishkind – his novel is Don’t Step Into My Office – A gripping debut novel of literary suspense and an astute portrait of the hidden violence of wealth. More Info

“Suspenseful, twisty, and laceratingly witty Don’t Step into My Office is a revelation. We need more mysteries like this one and more writers like Fishkind.”—Junot Díaz, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao