Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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VideosStory/Teller
Story/Teller: Rumaan Alam's Leave the World Behind with Tonya Pinkins, Marin Ireland, and Jessica Winter
Renowned stage and screen actors Tonya Pinkins (1992 Tony Award winner) and Marin Ireland (2009 Tony Award nominee)...
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Videos
Building Worlds with Rebecca Roanhorse, Leigh Bardugo, and Daniel José Older
The Pre-Columbian Americas offered speculative fiction writer Rebecca Roanhorse ample material to construct a captivating world...
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Book RecsBookstore Picks
The Voices of America
This week we focus on the great variety of voices in America in its many forms: fiction, fantastic and speculative; biography; poetry; and essay
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Events
Story/Teller with Jonathan Lethem, Edward Norton, and Kim Stanley Robinson
Monday, 7:30 pm EDT November 16, 2020
A dramatic reading and a talkback of Jonathan Lethem’s newest novel The Arrest.
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VideosOn America
On America: Kendrick Lamar's Powerful Storytelling in Song with Marcus J. Moore and Touré
Award-winning music journalist Marcus J. Moore’s biography of Kendrick Lamar, rap superstar and “master of storytelling”...
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Videos
Claire Messud and Anne Enright on Writing
The transformative experience of a “single successful sentence” is one of the many reasons why Claire Messud is driven to tell stories
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Book RecsBookstore Picks
Murder, Eat, Read, Repeat
This week I wanted to call out four new books in the crime genre that are particularly good—followed by a new mouthwatering cookbook and two...
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Videos
Page to Screen: The Devil All the Time with Donald Ray Pollock, Antonio Campos, Paulo Campos, and Wiley Cash
Nine years after publishing his debut novel The Devil All the Time to critical acclaim, author Donald Ray Pollock’s...
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VideosOn America
Calls to Remove: On Confederate Statues in America
Can America overcome the generational effects of 400 years of slavery when monuments honoring Confederate generals and slave traders still stand?
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Groups+Workshops
KidsReading Club: The Witch Boy Graphic Novel
Saturday, 11:00 am EDT November 14, 2020
Our online KidsReading Club offers middle-graders a literary social outlet with peers their age (9-12). We’re excited to hold our first discussion...
