Mason MFA Alumni Celebration Thursday, October 7, 7 pm reception, 7:30 pm event live-streamed via Crowdcast & in-person at Merten Hall Room 1201 at George Mason University About the Event Come together online or in-person to celebrate Mason MFA’s 40 years with six alumni. Poet Danielle Badra’s Like We Still Speak is an elegiac conversation […]
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Murder and Mayhem with Jo Nesbø Thursday, October 28, 7 pm via Crowdcast About the Event A master of mystery and suspense, Jo Nesbø has shocked readers worldwide with his chilling Harry Hole novels — The Redeemer and The Snowman, and other fast-paced thrillers like The Kingdom. Now he’s back with a sinister collection: The
Tales of Terror Friday, October 29, 7 pm via YouTube About the Event Just in time for Halloween, three writers weave tales that will thrill and chill you as illustrator Andrea Tsurumi brings their stories to life through her drawings. Cassandra Khaw’s Nothing But Blackened Teeth takes the classic haunted house story and flips it
Sisters in War: Historical Fiction Friday, October 29, 12 pm via Crowdcast About the Event Fact and fiction blend together in these two novels of female survival during wartime. In Suzanne Feldman’s, The Sisters of the Great War, two Baltimore sisters rely on their bond to survive the devastation of WWI Belgium as Ruth fulfills
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
