Colin Asher's 'The Midnight Special' Book Launch in Brooklyn with The Cambia Collective

Key facts

• Colin Asher's 'The Midnight Special' receives early positive reviews from The Observer, Booklist, Publisher's Weekly, The Houston Press, Alex Gershman, Maurice Chammah, Henry Carrigan, Vol 1. Brooklyn, and Town & Country.
• The book launch in Brooklyn features The Cambia Collective, a band that performs music by incarcerated and formerly incarcerated artists.
• The Cambia Collective has performed at the Cutting Room, Cell Theater, DiMenna Center, Abraham House, Green Ossining's Earth Day Festival, and the Sing Sing Prison Museum's UNSUNG series.
• The event includes an open bar.
• Maurice Chammah discussed Ike White, a musician featured in the book, with Asher at The Marshall Project.
• Henry Carrigan called the book 'riveting … judicious and incisive' in No Depression.
• The Observer says the book will 'transform' the way you see art.
• Booklist describes the book as 'mesmerizing.'