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THE GIST OF BID WHIST at The Metaphor Club in Leimert Park
March 7 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm PT
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AUTHOR EVENT:
JOIN US at The Metaphor Club: Creative Lounge in Leimert Park for the launch of The Gist of Bid Whist by Lamont Jones. The event is on Thursday, March 7, starting at 7:00 PM. Lamont Jones will be in conversation with Kobie Connor and John V. Meigs, Jr., followed by a Q&A and book signing. Books will be sold by The Salt Eaters Bookshop and a complimentary Bicycle card deck will be given with each purchase of a copy of The Gist of Bid Whist, while supplies last. This is a free event.
About The Gist of Bid Whist:
The world’s greatest card game awaits you.
Combining the strategic engagement of Bridge and the risk-taking swagger of Poker, Bid Whist has captivated luminaries like Justice Thurgood Marshall, Michael Jordan, and Magic Johnson—and inspired a passionate following in Black American communities for generations.
Accessible to players of all ages and backgrounds, the fast-paced game sparks camaraderie and rewards teamwork worthy of the best jazz ensembles and basketball teams.
The Gist of Bid Whist equips you with a firm grasp of the game’s fundamentals and a deep understanding of Bid Whist strategy. It also enhances the “card sense” that will enable you to thrive at any of your favorite trump card games, including Spades, Hearts, Euchre, Oh Hell, Bridge—or, of course, Bid Whist.
The Gist of Bid Whist explores the fascinating role of the Pullman porters, who crisscrossed the nation, sharing the latest jazz and blues records, insights that helped fuel the Great Migration, and the card game that was integral to life as a porter, Bid Whist. Poetically, Bid Whist would prove to be vital to the porters’ ultimate heroic impact on America.
Lamont Jones is a boxing lawyer and card game enthusiast devoted to helping Bid Whist reclaim its cultural prominence. The Gist of Bid Whist is part celebration, part workshop, part cultural history—with a generous dash of humor, sports anecdotes, and tips contributed by a vibrant cast of engaging personalities.
About the Author:
Lamont Jones serves as General Counsel for Haymon Boxing Management, creator of the Premier Boxing Champions platform. Jones started his legal career with Quinn Emanuel in Los Angeles and Baker Botts in Houston before representing leading boxing industry figures. Before law school, Jones competed in more than 200 amateur boxing bouts.
Jones is a graduate of Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Oklahoma.
Jones wrote The Gist of Bid Whist because he believes that card games connect people, and that the rich story of Bid Whist and the people who passed it down deserves to be widely known.
About the Conversation Partners:
Kobie Conner serves as the Senior Director of Business and Legal Affairs for Films at Netflix. Prior to joining Netflix, Kobie spent over a decade at 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight Pictures in Business Affairs leadership roles. Kobie also spent time as legal counsel at Walt Disney and Paramount Pictures. After graduating from Yale Law School, Kobie was an associate at the law firm of Morrison & Foerster and served as a law clerk on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
Outside of work, Kobie has sat on numerous boards including the Langston Bar Association, African Americans Attorneys in Downtown Firms (AAADF), the Yale Law School Alumni Executive Committee, and the Association of Corporate Counsel – Southern California Chapter. He currently sits on the global board of the Association of Corporate Counsel, the advisory board of Facing History and Ourselves – Los Angeles, the board of Calibrate and is a Trustee at Turning Point School.
John V. Meigs, Jr. is a Partner at the Beverly Hills entertainment boutique firm Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller, Gellman, Meigs & Fox LLP. John represents writers, actors, directors and producers in both motion pictures and television. His clients include, among many others, Issa Rae (“Insecure”), Kaley Cuoco (“Big Bang Theory” and “The Flight Attendant”), Prentice Penny (“Insecure”), Jay Ellis (“Insecure”), Winston Duke (“Black Panther” and “Us”), Steven Caple Jr. (“Creed 2” and “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts”), Brett Mahoney (“Ghost: Power Book II”), Damson Idris (“Snowfall”), J.D. Pardo (“Mayans M.C.”), Dave Burd aka Lil’ Dicky (“Dave”); Betty Gilpin (“GLOW” and “Mrs. Davis”), Larenz Tate (“Love Jones” and “Power”), DeVon Franklin (“Miracles from Heaven” and “Flamin’ Hot”), Xolo Mariduena (“Cobra Kai” and “Blue Beetle”), Nicole Beharie (“The Morning Show”), Karen Pittman (“The Morning Show”), Michelle Buteau (“Survival of the Thickest”), and Sherri Shepherd (“Sherri”).
John graduated from Stanford University and Harvard Law School. Early in his career, John practiced with Kirkland & Ellis and Quinn Emanuel, and served as Law Clerk to the Honorable Audrey B. Collins on the United States District Court for the Central District of California before joining the Legal Affairs department of Twentieth Century Fox Television.
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