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Nishant Batsha in conversation with Noah Falck

Please join us at Black Rock Books (1239 Niagara Street) to celebrate the release of Nishant Batsha’s new novel A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart. Nishant will be in conversation with Just Buffalo’s Noah Falck about the novel. A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart is on the New York Times summer reading recommendations and is gaining attention far and wide. We will have copies of the book on hand for signing.

The event is free for all to attend.

Date

Tuesday, July 15, 2025
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Time

7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

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Location

Black Rock Books
1239 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213
Website
https://www.blackrockbooksbuffalo.com/

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  • Nishant Batsha
    Nishant Batsha
    Fiction Writer, Historian

    Nishant Batsha is the author of the novel Mother Ocean Father Nation, named a finalist for a 2023 Lambda Literary Award, longlisted for a 2023 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, and named one of the best books of 2022 by NPR. His new novel A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart will be published in July 2025 by Ecco/HaperCollins. Nishant holds a PhD in history from Columbia University where he was a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow. He also works as a ghostwriter for public officials, CEOs, and leaders across various industries. Material he has ghostwritten has appeared in the New York Times and Politico, among other publications. He lives in Buffalo, NY with his wife and two children.

    photo credit Libby March

  • Noah Falck
    Noah Falck
    Poet, Culture Worker

    Noah Falck is the author of Exclusions (Tupelo Press, 2020) finalist for The Believer Book Award for poetry and the recent chapbooks Prerecorded Weather (co-written with Matt McBride) winner of the James Tate Prize for Poetry and normal normal (Foundlings Press, 2022). His work has appeared in the Kenyon Review, Literary Hub, Poetry Daily, Poets.org, and has been anthologized in Poem-A-Day 365 Poems for Every Occasion. He works at Just Buffalo Literary Center and in 2013 founded the Silo City Reading Series, a multimedia poetry event series inside a 120-foot-high, 100-year-old abandoned grain elevator.

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