City Tech’s Annual Literary Arts Festival features acclaimed novelist
Brooklyn BookBeat
New York City College of Technology (City Tech’s) 34th Annual Literary Arts Festival will take place on March 26, at the college’s Voorhees Theater, 186 Jay St., at 5:30 p.m. The event, which is free and open to the public, will feature acclaimed writer Dinaw Mengestu as well as student readings and musical performances.
Dinaw Mengestu is an Ethiopian-American writer whose works include “The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears” (2007), “Children of the Revolution” (2008) and “How to Read the Air” (2010).
In his latest novel, “All Our Names” (2014), Mengestu tells the captivating story of two star-crossed lovers during an African revolution in the 1970s.