R. Eric Thomas: CONGRATULATIONS, THE BEST IS OVER!
In Congratulations, the Best is Over!, R. Eric Thomas heads straight towards the experiences and questions that seem to come up time and again in Baltimore: What if you go back home, and both you and home have changed beyond recognition? In this collection of insightful and hilarious essays, Thomas moves back to his hometown of Baltimore and provides the nitty, and sometimes the gritty, details of wrestling with the life he thought he’d left behind while trying to establish a new one.
When R. Eric Thomas joined The Ivy Bookshop for a porch signing for his novel Kings of B’more, he said something we still quote: “Hanging out here is like hanging out on your friend’s porch!” So, join us in creating an evening of festive friends to celebrate the Baltimore Launch of his latest collection of essays! Throw in a pop up bar from Bird in Hand and it’s a happy hour sure to open up a beautiful conversation about the nature of home.
R. Eric Thomas is the bestselling author of Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and the YA novel Kings of B’more, a Stonewall Honor book. Both books were also featured as Read with Jenna book-club picks on Today. He is a television writer (Apple TV+’s Dickinson, FX’s Better Things), a Lambda Literary Award-winning playwright, and the long-running host of The Moth in Philadelphia. For four years, he was a senior staff writer at ELLE online, where he wrote the popular “Eric Reads the News” column.
This event will take place on the back patio of the Ivy Bookshop. It is free and open to the public.
