Join us at 7:00 PM on Friday, May 17, at New Dominion Bookshop (404 E. Main St.) for the May Charlottesville Reading Series event, featuring essayist B. Brian Foster.

B. Brian Foster is a writer, storyteller, and sociologist from Shannon, Mississippi. He earned his PhD in sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and currently works as an associate professor of sociology at the University of Virginia. His award-winning book I Don’t Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life chronicles Black community life and blues tourism in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Brian has also directed two award-winning short films and written for The Bitter Southerner, CNN, Delish.com, Esquire, the Ford Foundation, Veranda magazine, and The Washington Post, among others. His latest book, in conjunction with photojournalist Richard Frishman, is Ghosts of Segregation: American Racism, Hidden in Plain Sight.