The Year of Needy Girls Midwest book launch. A conversation with author Patricia A. Smith and Some Go Hungry author J. Patrick Redmond, moderated by Kaylie Jones. Presented in association with First Fridays and Evansville Pride. Drinks and hors d’oeuvres will be available.
This special Saturday night event brings together ten acclaimed authors to explore the concept of “radical hope,” a guiding principle of the Bay Area Book Festival this year and the title of a new anthology conceived by Oakland writer Carolina de Robertis shortly after the latest Presidential election. She asked award-winning novelists, poets, political thinkers, […]
A conversation with Kaylie Jones on contemporary publishing and the disenfranchised voice. The panel discussion includes Kaylie Jones Books collective authors Patricia J. Smith (The Year of Needy Girls) and J. Patrick Redmond (Some Go Hungry).
What are the essential ingredients in a captivating thriller? What kinds of characters do you need, and how do you build suspense, anticipation, and dread? Four bestselling thriller authors will reveal the trade secrets of the craft. Lescroart’s newest book, ‘Fatal,’ is “a psychological thriller in bed with a homicide investigation.” Danish writer Rydahl’s hero […]
For decades Cuba has been an American obsession, a political flashpoint, and a forbidden paradise of run-down charm, aromatic rum, cigars, and long hot nights filled with music. After Fidel Castro’s Revolution in 1959, the U.S. and Cuba became estranged. Tens of thousands fled, and Americans were shut out. The Cuban economy crumbled. Then came […]
Caribbean Cultural Theatre, Caribbean Research Center, and the Friends of Antigua & Barbuda Public Library present pre-WORD! Fest Film Series: Wide Sargasso Sea; women (re)writing history, featuring Elizabeth Nunez and Naomi Jackson.
Danny Goldberg will appear in conversation with Hendrik Hertzberg to discuss Goldberg’s latest release, In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea. Author and entertainment executive Danny Goldberg tells the subjective history of 1967 — the year he graduated from high school — by looking not only at the political causes but also […]
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