“Watching the devastation in Ukraine is heartbreaking. The bookselling and publishing community there has been devastated. I, along with a group of concerned literary friends, Asko…
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The Democracy Book Club: Helping Ukrainian Books and Booksellers (HUBB)
Event Date: January 28, 2023
Bloodbath Nation: A Virtual Evening with Paul Auster and Spencer Ostrander
Event Date: January 26, 2023
BLOODBATH NATION is powerfully illustrated with over forty original black and white photographs of abandoned sites of mass shootings by Spencer Ostrander. A portion of the proceeds…
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THEY COME AT KNIGHT: A Virtual Evening with Yasmin Angoe & Oline Cogdill
Event Date: January 25, 2023
Yasmin Angoe’s ‘They Come at Knight’ is the heart-pounding second installment in the Nena Knight series about an intrepid female assassin who will stop at nothing to protect her fa…
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RETRO: A Virtual Evening with Jarrod Shusterman & Sofía Lapuente
Event Date: January 24, 2023
What starts off as a light-hearted competition to live without modern technology for a year turns into a fight for survival in this unputdownable young adult thriller by New York T…
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The Democracy Book Club: The Military & Politics: A Threat to Our Democracy?
Event Date: December 10, 2022
Writers for Democratic Action and Democracy Book Club presents an Evening with Phil Klay, Tony Schwalm, & Elliot Ackerman, moderated by Jacki Lyden discussing the politicizatio…
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What Does the Election Mean for Democracy? EJ Dionne, Nancy Rosenblum, Stuart Stevens & Jo-Ann Mort
Event Date: November 15, 2022
A conversation to decipher what happened, where we go from here, and what are the perils and possibilities for our democracy. Book the Vote is a national drive bringing together re…
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Dawnlands: A Virtual Evening with Philippa Gregory and Silvia Licha
Event Date: November 9, 2022
Philippa Gregory is the author of many New York Times bestselling novels, including The Other Boleyn Girl, and is a recognized authority on women’s history. Many of her works have…
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We Take Our Cities with Us: An Evening with Sorayya Khan & Lily King
Event Date: November 7, 2022
After her Dutch mother’s death, Sorayya Khan confronts her grief by revisiting their relationship, her parents’ lives, and her own Pakistani-Dutch heritage in a multicultural memoi…
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Waking Beauty: A Virtual Afternoon with Rebecca Solnit & Donna Seaman
Event Date: November 6, 2022
Expanding, transforming, and subverting the magical tale of Sleeping Beauty, Rebecca Solnit revitalizes this classic story with a new perspective: Maya, the sister who stayed awake…
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Digital Lethargy: An Evening with Tung-Hui Hu and Kate Crawford
Event Date: November 2, 2022
Hu explores digital lethargy through a series of works by contemporary artists, writers, and performers. These works dwell within the ordinariness and even banality of digital life…
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The Architecture of Suspense: A Haunted Lunch with Christine Madrid French
Event Date: October 28, 2022
The Architecture of Suspense is the first book to document how great architectural minds found expression in Hitchcock’s films and how the director used their talents and his own u…
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Map of Hope and Sorrow: An Evening with Helen Benedict, Eyad Awwadawnan and Mansi Choksi
Event Date: October 26, 2022
The stories of refugees who fled violence or persecution only to become trapped in the worst refugee camps in Europe. Helen Benedict, award-winning British-American professor of jo…
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