Join us on Thursday, May 15, for a conversation with Michele Filgate and Tomás Q. Morín about the new collection of essays, WHAT MY FATHER AND I DON'T TALK ABOUT. A follow-up to the wildly successful What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About, this collection of essays from sixteen notable writers breaks the silence on the complex—and sometimes contentious—relationships we have with our fathers. Edited by Michele Filgate and featuring work from Isle McElroy, Tomás Q. Morín, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Susan Muaddi Darraj, and others, it's a book that opens the door into relationships between fathers and children in all the myriad forms they can take.

Tickets for this event include a hardcover copy of the book and a reserved seat at the event. Free RSVPs are also available and all unreserved seats are available on a first-come, first-serve basis.

About the authors

Michele Filgate is the editor of What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About and What My Father and I Don’t Talk About. Her writing has appeared in Longreads, Poets & Writers, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Paris Review Daily, Tin House, Gulf Coast, Oprah Daily, and many other publications. She received her MFA in Fiction from NYU, where she was the recipient of the Stein Fellowship.

Tomás Q. Morín is the author of the poetry collections Machete, Patient Zero, and A Larger Country, which was the winner of the APR/Honickman Book Prize. He is also the author of two books of prose, Where Are You From: letters to my son and the memoir Let Me Count the Ways, recipient of the Nonfiction Book Award of The Writer’s League of Texas. He is co-editor with Mari L’Esperance of the anthology Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine and translator of The Heights of Macchu Picchu by Pablo Neruda. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He teaches at Rice University.