2024 National Book Award Nonfiction honorees Hanif Abdurraqib (There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension, 2024 Nonfiction Longlister) and Vanessa Angélica Villarreal (Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders, 2024 Nonfiction Longlister) are recognized poets, essayists, and cultural critics whose work reveals the intrinsic interconnectedness between subject and writer, whether LeBron James, Game of Thrones, or parenthood. Join the authors for readings and conversation on the porousness of memory, self, and writing.

Moderated by Sheila Sundar, author of Habitations and Assistant Professor at the University of Mississippi.

Presented in partnership with the Oxford Conference for the Book.

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