Event Lectures and Symposia Backroads and Buried Bodies: Southern Noir with S.A. Cosby
Date and Location
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When: Saturday, August 12, 2023
1:00 pm - 1:45 pm EDT
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Where: Walter E. Washington Convention Center - West Salon GHI (Street Level, South Building)
801 Allen Y. Lew Place NW, Washington, DC 20001
- Stage: Understanding Stage Event Type(s): Author Presentations Genres: Black and African American, Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
Part of National Book Festival ; 2023 National Book Festival
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S.A. Cosby returns his readers to rural Virginia in his thriller “All the Sinners Bleed” which follows a Black officer who must investigate the death of a former student responsible for murdering his teacher. Throughout the book, Cosby explores his protagonist’s inner world and what it means for him to be a Black officer in the South. Moderated by Erek L. Barron.