One open mic and one reading tonight, as we burn off the days in August when authors everywhere are on vacation.

Frank Wilderson III reads at Elliott Bay Book Company tonight from Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid. Powell’s says about the author:

One of only two Black American members of the African National Congress (ANC), Frank B. Wilderson, III helped the ANC coordinate clandestine propaganda and launch psychological warfare while teaching in apartheid-era South Africa.

Interestingly, this is the the third book titled Incognegro to be published this year, and the fourth in two years.

And that is all that’s going on tonight. Next week there will be an embarrassment of riches, I promise you.

The full readings calendar, including the next week or so, is here.