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Columbia Writers Series: Sarah Manguso Reading

Clark College 1933 Fort Vancouver Way, Vancouver, WA, United States

From Columbia Writers Series's website: Manguso is the author of seven books of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. Her most recent book, 300 Arguments, "a pocket-sized foray into the frontier of contemporary nonfiction writing,” was named a book of the year by numerous publications including NPR and Buzzfeed. Manguso's writing has been published in Harper's, the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books, the Paris Review, and many other places.

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Columbia Writers Series: Claudia Castro Luna Reading

Clark College 1933 Fort Vancouver Way, Vancouver, WA, United States

Claudia Castro Luna is Poet Laureate of Washington State. She is the author of the Pushcart-nominated Killing Marías and This City. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, La Bloga, Dialogo and Psychological Perspectives, among others. Her non-fiction work can be read in several anthologies, including This Is The Place: Women Writing About Home. She is currently working on a memoir, Like Water to Drink, about her experience escaping the civil war in El Salvador.

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Columbia Writers Series: Reading & Discussion with Terese Mailhot

Clark College 1933 Fort Vancouver Way, Vancouver, WA, United States

Terese Mailhot is from Seabird Island Band. Her work has appeared in Guernica, Pacific Standard, Granta, Mother Jones, Medium, the Los Angeles Times, and Best American Essays 2019. She is the New York Times bestselling author of Heart Berries: A Memoir. She is the recipient of a 2019 Whiting Award. She teaches creative writing at Purdue University. This event will be free and open to the public. Monday, February 24, 2020 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. in PUB 258 A & B

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Live Online Lecture and Q & A with Sarah Smarsh

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Sarah Smarsh is a nonfiction author who writes about socioeconomic class and rural America. Her first book, Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth, was both a New York Times  bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Award. Her latest work, She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs, explores themes of gender and class while celebrating the life and work of the iconic Dolly Parton. This event will be free and open to the public. For the link and password to the event, write to anelson@clark.edu.

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Live Online Lecture and Q & A with Mira Jacob

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Mira Jacob is a novelist, memoirist, illustrator, and cultural critic. Her book Good Talk is a graphic memoir that describes complex conversations with her young son about "race, color, sexuality, and, of course, love." It was named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, Time, Kirkus Reviews, and others. This event will be free and open to the public. For the link and password to the event, write to anelson@clark.edu.

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Live Online Lecture and Q & A with Saeed Jones

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Saeed Jones is an essential author as well as a powerful voice in the world of literary activism, and his writing often takes on questions of identity. Formerly a major contributor at Buzzfeed, he shaped his platform into a tool for social awareness with his no-holds-barred personality. In 2019, Saeed released his highly anticipated memoir, How We Fight for Our Lives. In this memoir, Saeed has developed a one-of-a-kind style that is as beautiful as it is powerful, and he has cemented himself as an essential writer of our time. This event will be free and open to the public. For the link and password to the event, write to anelson@clark.edu. *Because this lecture falls during Clark College's spring break, a recording will be made available to…

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Columbia Writers Series: Sloane Crosley

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Sloane Crosley is a fiercely funny author and essayist whose humor is lively and genuine. She is a relentless comedic force who the New York Times called, “an incisive observer of human nature.” Sloane Crosley is the author of The New York Times bestselling essay collections, I Was Told There’d Be Cake and How Did You Get This Number. The former was a finalist for The Thurber Prize for American Humor, and was described as “perfectly, relentlessly funny” by David Sedaris. Her debut novel, The Clasp, was a national bestseller, a New York Times editor’s choice, and it has been optioned for film by Universal Pictures. Sloane’s most recent book of essays, Look Alive Out There, was met with high praise. Steve Martin said of…

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