Author Reading: Mat Johnson @ The Carver

Author Mat Johnson will give a free public reading at 7 p.m. Friday at the Carver Community Cultural Center. From the Express News:

“Mat Johnson’s new novel, “Loving Day,” takes its title from an unofficial holiday, one his narrator likens to “Mulatto Christmas.” It’s the observance of the Supreme Court ruling in Loving v. Virginia, which in 1967 decriminalized interracial marriage in America.  Johnson, whose previous novels include the excellent “Pym” (2011), is himself the product of such a marriage — his mother is black, his father not just white but Irish white — and the politics of his own racial mix is a topic he’s written about with discernment and a rumbling wit.” [read rest of E-N article here]