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Saturday, November 18, 2023 @ 3:00 pm UTC
DANI SHAPIRO’S FAMILY SECRETS: LIVE WITH GUEST MAGGIE SMITH
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For her podcast Family Secrets, author DANI SHAPIRO interviews poet MAGGIE SMITH about her bittersweet new book, You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir, an exploration of the disintegration […]
Saturday, November 18, 2023 @ 4:00 pm UTC
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI ON MURTAGH: THE WORLD OF ERAGON
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Master storyteller CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI returns to the World of Eragon with Murtagh, a stunning epic fantasy set a year after the events of the Inheritance Cycle. The world is no […]
Saturday, November 18, 2023 @ 4:00 pm UTC
EXAMINING A FRACTURED AMERICA
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Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better is a bold call to reexamine how our government operates – and how it […]
Saturday, November 18, 2023 @ 4:00 pm UTC
HEARING THROUGH THE NOISE: A CONVERSATION
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In Breaking Through: Communicating to Open Minds, Move Hearts, and Change the World, SALLY SUSMAN reveals how we can break through the noise to get our message across and make […]
Saturday, November 18, 2023 @ 5:00 pm UTC
MIKHAIL ZYGAR ON WAR AND PUNISHMENT: PUTIN, ZELENSKY, THE PATH TO RUSSIA'S INVASION OF UKRAINE
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In War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, the Path to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, Russian journalist MIKHAIL ZYGAR explains the impact of a new generation of Ukrainians, and provides an overview […]
Saturday, November 18, 2023 @ 5:00 pm UTC
TWO LEGENDARY CARTOONISTS: CHAST & ECKSTEIN
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In I Must Be Dreaming, acclaimed cartoonist ROZ CHAST explores and lays bare her own dream world – it’s a place that’s sometimes creepy but always hilarious. In The Complete […]
Saturday, November 18, 2023 @ 5:00 pm UTC
JAMES MCBRIDE ON THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE
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In JAMES MCBRIDE’s The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: A Novel, workers digging a foundation find a skeleton at the bottom of a well in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. Who the skeleton […]
Saturday, November 18, 2023 @ 6:00 pm UTC
ROSS GAY ON THE BOOK OF (MORE) DELIGHTS
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ROSS GAY‘s new collection of genre-defying essays, The Book of (More) Delights: Essays, continues his ongoing investigation of joy. For Gay, what makes us happy is what connects us and […]
Saturday, November 18, 2023 @ 6:00 pm UTC
USING LOSS, LOVE & TRAUMA TO CRAFT PROPULSIVE READS
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In My What If Year: A Memoir, ALISHA FERNANDEZ MIRANDA writes about pausing her successful high-powered career for a year to explore a few jobs of her dreams, a journey […]
Saturday, November 18, 2023 @ 7:00 pm UTC
HUMANS: RISE & FALL
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SIMON SCHAMA’s Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations investigates the tangled history of pandemics and vaccines through the 18th and 19th centuries, from smallpox in London to […]
Saturday, November 18, 2023 @ 7:00 pm UTC
HAPPILY NEVER AFTER: THE FEMININE URGE TO STAGE A RECKONING
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In the bittersweet You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir, poet MAGGIE SMITH explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself, ultimately reckoning with contemporary […]
Saturday, November 18, 2023 @ 8:00 pm UTC
DAUGHTERS OF LATIN AMERICA: A CONVERSATION
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SANDRA GUZMÁN, editor of Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women, is joined by contributors ELIZABETH ACEVEDO, DAINA CHAVIANO, ANJANETTE DELGADO, and ESMERALDA SANTIAGO to […]
Saturday, November 18, 2023 @ 8:00 pm UTC
THREE AUTHORS ON FRACTURED FAMILIES
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ALLEGRA GOODMAN’s Sam: A Novel is the story of a 7-year-old with a nearly absent father and a mother struggling to make ends meet. But all Sam wants to do […]
Saturday, November 18, 2023 @ 8:00 pm UTC
A HISTORICAL RECKONING: ON THE STATE OF AMERICA’S SOUL
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In Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America, HEATHER COX RICHARDSON offers a compelling and original narrative of how, over the decades, a small group of wealthy people have […]
Saturday, November 18, 2023 @ 9:00 pm UTC
COMIC RELIEF & POP CULTURE ZEITGEIST
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In Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome, comedian APARNA NANCHERLA delivers a collection of essays marked by her signature humor, sharing hilarious and incredibly insightful meditations on body image, […]