Virtual Event – Mychal Denzel Smith

Magic City Books is proud to welcome Mychal Denzel Smith for a virtual event in celebration of his new book Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream.

This author event is ticketed and all tickets include one (1) copy of the new book, Stakes Is High and one (1) link to the virtual event hosted on the Zoom platform.

Tickets are on sale now

Tickets are $26.00 plus taxes and fees and a portion of the ticket sales will benefit the Tulsa chapter of The Bail Project. For more information visit: https://bailproject.org/

About Stakes Is High:

The events of the past decade, in particular the election of Donald Trump, have forced us to reckon with who we are as a country and who we want to be. We have been invested in a set of beliefs about our American identity: our exceptionalism, the inevitable rightness of our path, and the promise that hard work and determination will carry us to freedom. But in Stakes Is High, Mychal Denzel Smith confronts the shortcomings of these stories — and with the American Dream itself — and calls on us to live up to the principles we profess but fail to realize. Smith exposes the stark contradictions at the heart of American life, holding all of us, individually and as a nation, to account. We’ve gotten used to looking away, but the fissures and casual violence-of incarceration, poverty, misogyny, and racism-are ever-present.

But there is a future that is not as grim as our past. In this profound work, Smith helps us envision it, with care, honesty, and imagination.

Mychal Denzel Smith is the author of the New York Times bestseller Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching (2016) and the forthcoming Stakes Is High (2020). His work has appeared, online and print, in the New York Times, Washington Post, Harper’s, Artforum, Oxford American, New Republic, GQ, Complex, Esquire, Playboy, Bleacher Report, The Nation, The Atlantic, Pitchfork, Bookforum, and a number of other publications. He has appeared on The Daily Show, PBS Newshour, Democracy NOW!, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more national and local radio/television programs. He is featured in and was a consulting producer for “Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story,” the Paramount Network docuseries executive produced by Jay-Z. In 2014 and 2016, TheRoot.com named him one of the 100 Most Influential African-Americans in their annual The Root 100 list. He was also a 2017 NAACP Image Award Nominee. He is a fellow at Type Media Center. You can follow him on Twitter at @mychalsmith.