may 2021
04may7:30 pmEat, Drink & Be Literary: Luis Alberto Urrea7:30 pm EST
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Presented in partnership with Brooklyn Academy of Music Moderated by Deborah Treisman, fiction editor of
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Presented in partnership with Brooklyn Academy of Music
Moderated by Deborah Treisman, fiction editor of The New Yorker.
“a kind of literary badass who still believes in love…He is a master storyteller with a rock-and-roll heart.” —NPR
Join Luis Alberto Urrea for an evening of intimate discourse and reflection at this digital event, rescheduled from last spring due to the shutdown.
Novelist, essayist, and poet Urrea is the author of the landmark nonfiction work The Devil’s Highway, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He also wrote the novels The House of Broken Angels, Into the Beautiful North, The Hummingbird’s Daughter, and Queen of America, as well as the story collection The Water Museum, which was a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist. He is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Award, an Edgar Award, a 2017 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, and a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, among other honors. Urrea currently lives outside of Chicago and teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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This program includes closed captioning. If there is anything we can do to make this program as accessible to you as possible, please let us know. Contact BAM at [email protected] with any questions, suggestions, or for additional information.
Time
(Tuesday) 7:30 pm EST
Location
Virtual
19may4:00 pm5:00 pm[email protected] with Pablo Cartaya4:00 pm - 5:00 pm ET
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Join us for a [email protected] discussion with National Book Award Judge Pablo Cartaya about his book Each Tiny Spark, in which a daughter and father find their way back to each
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Join us for a [email protected] discussion with National Book Award Judge Pablo Cartaya about his book Each Tiny Spark, in which a daughter and father find their way back to each other in the face of their changing family and community. This event is open to the public and will feature a student-generated Q+A with the author.
Registration is required. Please register here.
Time
(Wednesday) 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm ET
Location
Virtual
Organizer
National Book Foundation
20may5:00 pmNBF Presents: The Art of Translation5:00 pm ET
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Fernanda Melchor. (Photo
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Hurricane Season is the story of a dead witch set in a small town in Mexico. The book, translated from the Spanish, found a global audience and recognition. 2020 National Book Award Longlist author and translator Fernanda Melchor and Sophie Hughes come together for a conversation on the trust-fall act—and art—of literary translation, and the significance of a reader’s access to international perspectives.
Moderated by Shuchi Saraswat, writer, editor, and founder of The Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith.
Books are available for purchase at Bookshop.org with thanks to this season’s bookseller, Loyalty Bookstores.
Time
(Thursday) 5:00 pm ET
Location
Virtual
Organizer
National Book Foundation
june 2021
15jun6:00 pmNBF Presents: Revolutionary Joy6:00 pm ET
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Akwaeke
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NBF Presents’ season finale recognizes the historical and literary significance of Black trans and nonbinary narratives with National Book Award–honored authors Kacen Callender (King and the Dragonflies, 2020 Young People’s Literature Winner), Akwaeke Emezi (Pet, 2019 Young People’s Literature Finalist), and Danez Smith (Don’t Call Us Dead, 2017 Poetry Finalist) for a discussion on trans and nonbinary stories that make room for both queer pain and joy.
Moderated by Celeste Chan, writer and Queer Ancestors Project facilitator.
Books are available for purchase at Bookshop.org with thanks to this season’s bookseller, Loyalty Bookstores.
Time
(Tuesday) 6:00 pm ET
Location
Virtual
Organizer
National Book Foundation