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Online Book Talk: Imbolo Mbue “How Beautiful We Were” with Elisabeth Egan
Online Book Talk: Imbolo Mbue “How Beautiful We Were” with Elisabeth Egan
Join us as we celebrate the launch of Imbolo Mbue's new book How Beautiful We Were on Saturday March 13 at 4 p.m. Imbolo will be in conversation with Elisabeth Egan, an editor at the New York Times Book Review. Author of the New York Times bestseller and award-winning Behold the Dreamers, Mbue’s second book is a sweeping, wrenching story ...
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Online Book Talk: Kevin Barry “That Old Country Music”
Online Book Talk: Kevin Barry “That Old Country Music”
Explore contemporary Ireland with Kevin Barry, author of the wildly acclaimed Night Boat to Tangier, as he talks about his wonderful new collection of short stories, That Old Country Music. Kevin will be speaking from County Sligo, Ireland, with award-winning writer Matthew Thomas. This is a free talk, held live online via Crowdcast; register and view here. That Old Country ...
Online Book Talk: New Voices with Amir Ahmadi Arian and Ruvanee Pietersz Vilhauer
Online Book Talk: New Voices with Amir Ahmadi Arian and Ruvanee Pietersz Vilhauer
Then the Fish Swallowed Him is Amir Ahmadi Arian’s acclaimed first novel in English after a career as a journalist, author and translator in Iran. Ruvanee Pietersz Vilhauer is a psychology professor and science writer who has turned to fiction with her first novel, a hypnotic thriller: The Mask Collectors. Nancy Star talks to these two compelling debut novelists, accomplished ...
Online Book Talk: Bringing Korean Stories to the World
Online Book Talk: Bringing Korean Stories to the World
Frances Cha’s riveting debut novel If I Had Your Face, depicts four young women making their way in a world defined by impossible standards of beauty, ruthless social hierarchies and K-pop mania. She speaks with Nancy Jooyoun Kim, author of The Last Story of Mina Lee, a Reese’s Book Club pick and New York Times bestseller. Her debut novel illustrates ...
Online Book Talk: Don Lemon “This Is The Fire” with Joy-Ann Reid
Online Book Talk: Don Lemon “This Is The Fire” with Joy-Ann Reid
Don Lemon's new book This Is The Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism is an urgent, deeply personal, riveting plea, which he hopes will "help heal America". Host of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon, he will be talking with political analyst and MSNBC host of The ReidOut, Joy-Ann Reid on Saturday March 20 at 7 p.m. Beginning ...
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Online Book Talk: Avni Doshi “Burnt Sugar” with Christina Baker Kline
Online Book Talk: Avni Doshi “Burnt Sugar” with Christina Baker Kline
Shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize and one of NPR’s Best Books of 2020, Burnt Sugar looks at the “complex and unusual mother-daughter relationship with honest, unflinching realism – sometimes emotionally wrenching but also cathartic, written with poignancy and memorability.” Set in India, it is a story about mothers and daughters, obsession and betrayal. Speaking from Dubai, author Avni Doshi ...
Online Book Talk: Caribbean Voices with Cherie Jones and Maisy Card
Online Book Talk: Caribbean Voices with Cherie Jones and Maisy Card
Nominated for the PEN/Hemingway Award For Debut Novel Finalist, and shortlisted for the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, Maisy Card discusses her electric family saga These Ghosts are Family, a transporting debut novel that reveals the ways in which a Jamaican family forms and fractures over generations. She will be in conversation with Cherie Jones, author of the ...
Online Book Talk: Writing Across Cultures in English and Spanish with Ernesto Quiñonez and Pilar Fraile Amador
Online Book Talk: Writing Across Cultures in English and Spanish with Ernesto Quiñonez and Pilar Fraile Amador
Ernesto Quiñonez, author of the landmark novel, Bodega Dreams, talks about his latest book, Taína, a uniquely dark, coming-of-age novel ripe with magical realism, music, sorcery and redemption, with a sweeping narrative. He will be joined by Pilar Fraile Amador, speaking from Spain, about her novel, Days of Euphoria (Días de euforia). She is considered by critics as one of ...
Online Book Talk: Poets Laureate in Conversation with Andrew Motion and Billy Collins
Online Book Talk: Poets Laureate in Conversation with Andrew Motion and Billy Collins
Dubbed “the most popular poet in America,” Billy Collins is famous for conversational, witty poems that welcome readers with humor but often slip into quirky, tender, or profound observations on the everyday, reading and writing, and poetry itself. Collins’s level of fame is almost unprecedented in the world of contemporary poetry: his readings regularly sell out. He served two terms ...
Online Book Talk: Douglas Stuart “Shuggie Bain” with Alan Cumming
Online Book Talk: Douglas Stuart “Shuggie Bain” with Alan Cumming
Join Scottish-American author Douglas Stuart as he speaks with fellow Scot and award-winning actor, author, filmmaker, and activist Alan Cumming about his 2020 Booker Prize-winning debut novel Shuggie Bain. Shuggie Bain is a heartbreaking story of addiction, sexuality, and love. It follows the childhood of Hugh “Shuggie” Bain and his wayward, alchoholic mother Agnes, an epic portrayal of a working-class ...
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