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SUMMARY:PEN Out Loud: Brandon Hobson with Rebecca Makkai
DESCRIPTION:Flash sale until January 27! Use the code WINTERPOL for 50 percent off General Admission tickets.\nThe first 350 Admission With Book tickets will include a bookplate.\n \nNational Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson joins PEN Out Loud to celebrate his latest novel\, The Removed. Weaving together multiple first-person narrators and Cherokee folklore\, the novel tells the story of a Cherokee family 15 years after an unjust police shooting of one of the family’s three children. Hobson will be joined in conversation with Pulitzer Prize finalist Rebecca Makkai to discuss the novel and its “meditation on family\, grief\, home\, and the power of stories on both a personal and ancestral level.” \nThis digital event will start at 8pm ET / 5pm PT. \nPresented in collaboration with Strand Book Store and Scripps Presents. \n \nASL interpretive services are provided by ProBono ASL. \n  \nPEN Out Loud focuses on amplifying diverse voices and convening vital conversations with authors\, poets\, journalists\, artists\, and activists. \nThis winter\, these conversations shift our focus inward\, providing a necessary pause to examine who we once were\, who we are now\, and who we’d like to become. Following a fraught year in which we were challenged to reckon with our past\, confront our present\, and reimagine our future\, we turn to literature to engage our minds and reconnect with ourselves—physically\, mentally\, and emotionally. \nEach event this season explores the core of our humanity\, generously interrogating our understanding of—and capacity to experience—passion and desire\, grief and resilience\, nourishment and love\, reflection and hope. \n$20 General Admission*\n* Admission with books\, signed books\, and bookplates available at additional cost.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Launch: THE UPSTAIRS HOUSE by Julia Fine In Conversation With Rebecca Makkai
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Women & Children First’s Crowdcast Channel for the virtual launch celebration for The Upstairs House by Julia Fine! For this event\, Fine will be in conversation with Rebecca Makkai. \nREGISTER HERE \nRavaged and sore from giving birth to her first child\, Megan is mostly raising her newborn alone while her husband travels for work. Physically exhausted and mentally drained\, she’s also wracked with guilt over her unfinished dissertation—a thesis on mid-century children’s literature. \nEnter a new upstairs neighbor: the ghost of quixotic children’s book writer Margaret Wise Brown—author of the beloved classic Goodnight Moon—whose existence no one else will acknowledge. It seems Margaret has unfinished business with her former lover\, the once-famous socialite and actress Michael Strange\, and is determined to draw Megan into the fray. As Michael joins the haunting\, Megan finds herself caught in the wake of a supernatural power struggle—and until she can find a way to quiet these spirits\, she and her newborn daughter are in terrible danger. \nUsing Megan’s postpartum haunting as a powerful metaphor for a woman’s fraught relationship with her body and mind\, Julia Fine once again delivers an imaginative and “barely restrained\, careful musing on female desire\, loneliness\, and hereditary inheritances” (Washington Post). \nJulia Fine is the author of the critically acclaimed What Should Be Wild\, which was shortlisted for the Bram Stoker Superior First Novel Award and the Chicago Review of Books Award. She teaches writing in Chicago\, where she lives with her husband and son. \nRebecca Makkai latest novel\, The Great Believers\, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award; it was the winner of the ALA Carnegie Medal\, the Stonewall Book Award\, the LA Times Book Prize\, the Clark Fiction Prize\, the Midwest Independent Booksellers Award\, and the Chicago Review of Books Award; and it was one of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of 2018. Her other books are the novels The Borrower and The Hundred-Year House\, and the collection Music for Wartime — four stories from which appeared in The Best American Short Stories. Rebecca is on the MFA faculties of Sierra Nevada College and Northwestern University. She is Artistic Director of StoryStudio Chicago. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, February 24\, 2021 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nVirtual via Crowdcast
URL:https://rebeccamakkai.com/event/virtual-book-launch-the-upstairs-house-by-julia-fine-in-conversation-with-rebecca-makkai/
LOCATION:Women & Children First\, 5233 N. Clark St.\, Chicago\, IL
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