A Conversation with Brit Bennett Thursday, October 21, 7 p.m. via Crowdcast About the Event New York Times bestselling author Brit Bennett discusses her stunning novel The Vanishing Half, about identical twin sisters, inseparable as children, who choose to live drastically different lives: one as white and one as black. Entertainment Weekly calls the book […]
The Beck Environmental Lecture with Elizabeth Kolbert Thursday, October 14, 7 p.m. via Crowdcast About the Event In Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Elizabeth Kolbert tells the incredible stories of biologists trying to save the world’s rarest fish, researchers developing a “super coral,” and engineers in Iceland turning
The Grand Game, Then and Now Friday, October 15, 12 pm via Crowdcast About the Event Considered the American ‘national pastime,’ no sport has a richer history than baseball. Yet as a new season draws to a close, the game finds itself at a crossroads, facing a number of serious challenges. Award-winning authors E. Ethelbert
New American Voices Award Ceremony Friday, October 15, 7 pm via Crowdcast About the Event Novelists Patricia Engel, author of Infinite Country, Daisy Hernández, author of The Kissing Bug, and Anthony Veasna So, author of the Afterparties have been named finalists for the fourth annual Institute for Immigration Research New American Voices Award. Created to
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Conjuring the Past: Artifacts of Memory Monday, October 18, 7 pm via Crowdcast About the Event Two women search for meaning by parsing the artifacts of their family and cultural lives. In White Magic: Essays, Elissa Washuta confronts both her past drug addiction and her struggle of being a Native woman by examining her culture’s
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Our Haunted Pasts Tuesday, October 19, 7 pm via Crowdcast About the Event Three writers imagine how memory can reshape and haunt their current-day lives. In M. Soledad Caballero’s poetry collection I Was a Bell, she explores the ripples from the primal moments in her childhood, split between countries, languages, and violence. Ari Honarvar’s novel