Writer and teacher Tre Johnson visits Dorchester's Just-Bookish on Tuesday, Sept. 23. Photo courtesy Dutton

Author has date next Tuesday at Just-Bookish in Fields Corner

Tre Johnson, author of the critically acclaimed new book “Black Genius: Essays on an American Legacy,” will visit Dorchester’s Just-Bookish in Fields Corner next week for an in-store reading and conversation.

Tre and I are old friends, so when I chatted with him last week, we picked up right where we left off – Tre reminding me to pay attention to the beauty in everyday life.

That’s the message at the core of his first-ever book, in which Tre, who teaches creative writing at the University of Maryland and contributes to multiple publications, flips the script on what we usually think of as “genius.”

For Johnson, geniu

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