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Portland Arts & Lectures: Tayari Jones

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall 1037 SW Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

Literary Arts presents the 34th season of Portland Arts & Lectures, featuring some of the most engaging writers at work today. They are novelists, essayists, and journalists whose award-winning works covers the most compelling issues of our time. The 2018/2019 series is sold out! Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage, a 2018 Oprah's Book Club selection; Leaving Atlanta; The Untelling; and Silver Sparrow will lecture on January 17. ABOUT THE SPEAKER  Tayari Jones is the author of An American Marriage, a 2018 Oprah’s Book Club selection; Leaving Atlanta; The Untelling; and Silver Sparrow. Her writing has appeared in Tin House, The Believer, the New York Times, and Callaloo.  A member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, she has also been a recipient of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a Lifetime Achievement Award…

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$90 – $345

Broadway Books Spring Book Club Event

Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway, Portland, OR, United States

For our spring book club gathering we will be reading two novels and comparing them: An American Marriage by Tayari Jones and If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin. This special book club programming is in conjunction with our Year of Reading James Baldwin, inspired by the National Book Foundation's Author in Focus program. As part of this program, we are offering books by James Baldwin at a 20% discount all year long!

Free

Well-Read Black Girl Book Club

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United States

Black women and Black nonbinary people are invited to join us every second Thursday of the month for the Well-Read Black Girl Book Club. The American Booksellers Association is partnering with Well-Read Black Girl founder Glory Edim to amplify diverse voices and support emerging writers through discussions of classics and newly published work, all written by Black authors. This month we’re reading An American Marriage by Tayari Jones. Join us!

Free

Annie Bloom’s Books: Independent Bookstore Day 2020

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Independent Bookstore Day is going online for 2020. Check out this amazing schedule of livestream events! GOLDFISH GHOST drawing class with LISA BROWN Join us for a fun and interactive drawing demonstration with illustrator and author Lisa Brown. Her books include GOLDFISH GHOST, THE AIRPORT BOOK, THE PHANTOM TWIN, MUMMY CAT, LONG STORY SHORT and others. Join here at 10am on 8/29: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83926414626?pwd=UjFrenFzREVRS0ZlOVZMcURMald0Zz09 Middle Grade Fun with RENEE WATSON and illustrator NINA MATA with moderator ISAAC FITZGERALD Join RENEE WATSON (WAYS TO MAKE SUNSHINE), illustrator NINA MATA (I PROMISE), and moderator ISAAC FITZGERALD (HOW TO BE A PIRATE). Join here at 11am on 8/29: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88670459576?pwd=R1A5cEQwZU81UUNGMndQNXBLWCtKdz09 World-Building in YA Feminist Fantasy Fiction Join bestselling YA fantasy authors KAT CHO (WICKED FOX and VICIOUS SPIRITS), RENA BARRON…

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Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi in Conversation With Tayari Jones

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

International award-winning author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s new novel, A Girl Is a Body of Water (Tin House), is a sweeping and powerful portrait of a young girl and her family: who they are, what history has taken from them, and — most importantly — how they find their way back to each other. In her 12th year, Kirabo, a young Ugandan girl, confronts a piercing question that has haunted her childhood: Who is my mother? Kirabo has been raised by women in the small village of Nattetta — her grandmother, her best friend, and her many aunts — but the absence of her mother follows her like a shadow. Complicating these feelings of abandonment, as Kirabo comes of age she feels the emergence of a…

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