Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Videos
On Revision: Kiese Laymon and Peter Ho Davies
In a convocation address at Lawrence University, Kiese Laymon (Heavy: An American Memoir, How to Slowly Kill Yourself...
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Groups+Workshops
The Remembered Life: Keeping a Writer’s Notebook with Evan James (Sold Out)
Once a week Wednesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT July 28 to September 1, 2021
How do we gather the raw material for our work? How can we use the details of our lives—the day-to-day sights, sounds, and scenes that we witness—as...
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Book RecsBookstore Picks
The Darkness and the Light
Books about narcissism, illness, violence, loneliness, longing, misery, displacement, and catastrophic weather events—sounds like a description...
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VideosLiterary Translation Clinics
What Are the Strategies of 'Deviant' or Queer Translation?
Poet and translator Rajiv Mohabir posed questions that think on translation as a trialogue. What happens when the translation...
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Videos
Black Universe: Samuel Delany’s Early Sci-Fi
Critics Jayna Brown (Black Utopias) and Tavia Nyong’o (Afro-Fabulations) joined author and...
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Events
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers on The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois with A. Van Jordan
Wednesday, 7:00 pm EDT September 22, 2021
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (The Age of Phillis), the award-winning poet and essayist, joins us to discuss the launch of...
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Videos
Lionel Shriver on Should We Stay or Should We Go with Meghan Daum
Lionel Shriver, author of We Need to Talk About Kevin, returns with a highly compelling and dramatic novel about a couple’s...
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Events
Truman & Tennessee: Live Virtual Q&A with Lisa Immordino Vreeland, Jim Parsons, and Zachary Quinto
Thursday, 7:00 pm EDT June 24, 2021
Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams—writers, celebrities, geniuses—catapulted to fame in the 1950s, sparking a friendship and rivalry spanning...
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Events
Gabriel Krauze on Who They Was with Nico Walker
Tuesday, 6:00 pm EDT July 13, 2021
By day, he’s Gabriel, an average university student studying the world from the safe distance of higher education. But by night, he’s...
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Book RecsBookstore Picks
And Introducing . . .
This week we feature remarkably assured debuts from writers who seem destined for bright careers, drawing from their personal lives to shape their fiction
