Author Event with Gerrick Kennedy

Join us for an evening with author and music journalist Gerrick Kennedy in conversation with our bookseller Jonathan Pope at 7pm on Thursday, May 28! They'll be discussing all things Brandy, Whitney and more in celebration of Brandy's new memoir, Phases, which Gerrick Kennedy co-wrote.

Gerrick Kennedy is a journalist, cultural critic, writer, editor and editorial consultant based in Los Angeles. He is the author of Parental Discretion Is Advised: The Rise of N.W.A and the Dawn of Gangsta Rap, Didn’t We Almost Have It All: In Defense of Whitney Houston, and the co-author of Phases with R&B icon Brandy. His writing has appeared in Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, GQ, The Hollywood Reporter, Wall Street Journal Magazine, Men’s Health, Variety, NPR Music, Billboard, Spin, i-D, Playboy, Teen Vogue, Shondaland, Cultured Magazine and the Los Angeles Times.

Jonathan Pope is a high school English teacher and part-time bookseller at Prologue Bookshop. Jonathan’s passion for literature, representation, and equity in literary spaces led him to create a YouTube channel during the COVID-19 pandemic, To Be Black and Loved, offering book reviews, book suggestions, and leading book discussion centered around Black literature. Many opportunities have come from this venture such as participating in panels at the inaugural Black Readers Con, Columbus Book Festival, and Heartland Book Festival, co-hosting book discussions with blogger Jouelzy’s Smart Brown Girl Book Club— and facilitating two book clubs locally The Black and Loved Book Club at Prologue Bookshop, and the Brothers In Unity Book Club.

Gerrick Kennedy's books will be for sale at the event.