Tag Archive for: 2022
cancelled: Wordplay with Jon Agee
Have you heard of TACO CAT or UFO TOFU? Have you eaten an EVIL OLIVE or STRESSED DESSERTS? You might think you have ailihphilia (that’s a love of palindromes) but only Jon Agee, a true prodigy of palindromes, would have the audacity to write…
Powwow Day
River longs to participate in the Grand Entry procession at the powwow, but she's recovering from an illness and is too weak to dance. As she looks on from the sidelines, though, she feels gratitude to be part of of this tradition and hope for…
How to Write a Mystery
What elevates a mystery beyond the predictable and into the realm of edge-of-your-seat, stay-up-until-3 a.m. enthrallment? Four experts in suspense unravel the secrets to making pages turn and spines tingle. Your mentors in mystery are Dale…
Revolution and Resilience: Global Politics in Fiction
Three supremely talented writers with a global perspective will open our eyes to historical and contemporary cycles of oppression and resistance as only the best fiction writers can. NoViolet Bulawayo was a National Book Foundation “5 under…
Cataclysm or Cure-All?: Fiction Writers Engage with the Promises and Perils of Our Tech Future
If Chekhov or Borges or Arthur Miller wrote about the digital age, what would it look like? Four fiction writers, each with an exquisite ear for societal mores and the tender absurdities of humanity, bring their artistry to bear on the Wild…
Women in the Wild
Three intrepid adventurers who have scaled mountains—and, for that matter, moved them—will show us why women belong in the wild. A survivor of severe trauma in childhood, mountaineer Silvia Vasquez-Lavado (The Shadow of the Mountain) grew…
Rebecca Solnit on Orwell’s Roses
Did you know that 1984 author and journalist George Orwell had a passion for cultivating roses? Learn all about it from Rebecca Solnit, one of our most revered journalists and thinkers, whose own creative and activist journey was shaped by Orwell's…
World as Lover, World as Self: Joanna Macy on Hope, Healing, and Connection in a Suffering World
Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances, Joanna Macy will not be able to join us this year. All current ticket holders for this session have been refunded.
At 93 years old eco-philosopher Joanna Macy, PhD, is one of the world’s most…
125 Years of the New York Times Book Review: A Blockbuster Tour
Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances, Tina Jordan will not be able to join us this year. All current ticket holders for this session will receive a replacement Priority Ticket for any other program of their choice at the festival.
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National Book Foundation Presents: Hanif Abdurraqib and Douglas Kearney
Join 2021 National Book Award Finalists Hanif Abdurraqib (A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance) and Douglas Kearney (Sho) for a conversation on poetics, performance, and the manipulation of genre to uncover meaning.
The…