Event

Penthouse Symposium / One Pot with Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts.

Penthouse Symposium / One Pot Dinner.

Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, author of Harlem is Nowhere. April 20th. 7pm.

In Conversation with Nick Licata, Charles Mudede, and Sandra Jackson-Dumont. Food prepared by Michael Hebb / www,onepot.org.

"This is a lovely book about the romance-and dangers-of bibliophily...Beguiling." Zadie Smith

Topic: Sharifa's new book: Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America.

$40/person, includes a hearty dinner prepared by michael hebb/one pot and a copy of Harlem is Nowhere..

Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts is a writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, New York Times Book Review, Harper's, The Nation, Boston Globe, Transition, and Times Literary Supplement. She has received awards from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Originally from Houston, Texas, she graduated in 2000 from Harvard University and was a Fulbright Scholar in the United Kingdom. Sharifa is writing a trilogy on African-Americans and utopia; her first book, Harlem is Nowhere, will be published in 2011 by Little, Brown & Company.

"Rhodes-Pitts is one of that rare breed of writer who, on the strength of her hypnotic voice and idiosyncratic thinking, can turn ever sentence into a crooked finger, impossible to resist." Laura Miller, Salon.com

"It makes a startling, alive sound, one you cock your head at an angle to hear...Ms. Rhodes-Pitts drops us inside her wide-scanning cranium as she searches for her own version of Harlem..." Dwght GARNER, New York Times

More about Harlem is Nowhere below...

Vogue.com
http://www.vogue.com/culture/article/q-a-with-sharifa-rhodes-pitts-author-of-harlem-is-nowhere/

NPR, Talk of the Nation
http://www.npr.org/2011/01/31/133377760/dreams-and-reality-forever-intertwined-in-harlem

The HARLEM IS NOWHERE mixtape, by DJ Rupture, featuring Shabazz Palaces!
http://www.domusweb.it/en/mixtape/domus-mixtape-2-the-sound-of-harlem-nyc/