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Book Club: How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America with author Clint Smith
Thu, November 13th at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Free
NOMA’s book club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books related to art in the museum’s collection and exhibitions. At this month’s book club meeting, author Clint Smith will join via Zoom to discuss his book How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America and the recently-released youth edition of the book.
This book club meeting will be available in-person and via Zoom. Register by 9:00 am on Thursday, November 13, to receive your Zoom link.
NOMA’s book club is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book to participate. In addition to monthly book discussions, the book club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections.
Books are selected in advance and planned according to the museum’s exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copy of the titles. Selections are also available at the NOMA Museum Shop, where museum members receive a 10% discount.
Meetings are held in person or via Zoom. All meetings begin at 12 pm. For more information or questions, please email programs@noma.org.
About the Book
About Clint Smith
Author and Journalist Clint Smith, photo by Calvin Gavion
Clint Smith is the author of the narrative nonfiction book, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America, which was a #1 New York Times bestseller, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism, the Stowe Prize, and selected by the New York Times as one of the 10 best books of 2021. How the Word Is Passed (Adapted for Young Readers), with Sonja Cherry-Paul, will be published in September 2025 (Little, Brown). He is also the author of the New York Times bestselling poetry collection Above Ground and the award-winning poetry collection Counting Descent. His writing has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. Clint received his B.A. in English from Davidson College and a Ph.D. in Education from Harvard University. He is a staff writer at The Atlantic.