(Ticket price include 2 cocktails, appetizers, and admission. Signed copies of the books may be pre-ordered at checkout by choosing a ticket that says "+ signed copy" and picked up at the event.)

After a bit of an hiatus, we could not be more delighted to get Books & Spirits back in action. In partnership with The Hawaii Book & Music Festival, we are stoked to have ANOTHER Pulitzer Prize winner, Adam Johnson, as our guest. His book The Orphan Master's Son is the once-again highly topical, Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times bestselling novel of North Korea: an epic journey into the heart of the world’s most mysterious dictatorship.

“Imagine Charles Dickens paying a visit to Pyongyang, and you see the canvas on which [Adam] Johnson is painting here.”—The Washington Post

More recently his book Fortune Smiles won the National Book Award. He's also won any number of other awards we won't bother listing. Please join us for an intimate conversation with this talented artist.

Adam Johnson is a Professor of English with emphasis in creative writing at Stanford University. Winner of a Whiting Award and Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Academy in Berlin, he is the author of several books, including Fortune Smiles, which won the 2015 National Book Award, and the novel The Orphan Master’s Son, which was awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize. His fiction has appeared in Esquire, GQ, Playboy, Harper's Magazine, Granta, Tin House and The Best American Short Stories. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages.

We are happy once again to be hosted by Revolusun in Kaka'ako.

We are super excited to have pupus from Encore Saloon, an Ocean Friendly restaurant that makes some of the best Mexican food in town! Our mixologist is Dave Power, the "barman in residence" (how cool a title is that?) with Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits of Hawaii.

Your ticket includes two drinks, food, and admission to the event at 7PM. There are a limited number of early admission tickets for a small group social with the author before the main event at 6:00PM.

The event will be held at RevoluSun Smart Home in Kaka’ako. (Map). Mahalo RevoluSun Smart Home for making the space available!