The Midnight Special: A Book Launch Party

Join us for a reading from The Midnight Special, a conversation between two old friends, and a musical performance from The Cambia Collective! Books for sale from Terrace Bookstore. Stick around to meet the author, grab a drink, and get your copy signed.

Colin Asher is the author of The Midnight Special: The Secret Prison History of American Music. He also wrote Never a Lovely so Real: The Life and Work of Nelson Algren, a literary biography written as a work of creative nonfiction. That book was celebrated in The New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the New York Times Book Review, among others. It was named “One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2019” by Apple Books, a “Book of the Week” by Publishers Weekly, and an “Editors’ Choice” selection by the New York Times Book Review. Both Publishers Weekly and Booklist gave it starred reviews. Despite…