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Virtual Author Visit: Erika Sanchez
Join us at 3 p.m. Tuesday, July 25 for an online event with award-winning writer Erika L. Sánchez about her utterly original, moving, and disarmingly funny memoir-in-essays Crying in the Bathroom.
Growing up as the daughter of Mexican immigrants in Chicago in the nineties, Erika Sánchez was a self-described pariah, misfit, and disappointment—a foul-mouthed, melancholic rabble-rouser who painted her nails black but also loved comedy, often laughing so hard with her friends that she had to leave her school classroom. Twenty-five years later, she’s now an award-winning novelist, poet, and essayist, but she’s still got an irrepressible laugh, an acerbic wit, and singular powers of perception about the world around her.
Virtual Author Visit: Ethan Kross
Join us Thursday, July 20 at noon for an online visit from author and researcher Ethan Kross, as he discusses his new book, Chatter. In Chatter, Kross uses a blend of cutting-edge science (from his own lab) and real-world case studies to help us harness the power of our inner voice. This talk is a lively exploration of how we can use those tools to make our inner voice work in our favor, and it answers some valuable questions along the way.
Virtual Author Visit: Charles Soule
Join us at 1 p.m. Saturday, July 15 for an online author visit with New York Times bestselling author Charles Soule. The mega-star comic book author talks about his newest novel, The Endless Vessel, which explores the way we’re all connected — and what can happen when we lose our capacity for joy.
The Endless Vessel transports us to a few years from now, in a world similar to ours, where there exists a sort of “depression plague” that people refer to simply as “The Grey.” No one can predict whom it will afflict or how, but once infected, there’s no coming back. A young Hong Kong-based scientist, Lily Barnes, is trying to maintain her inner light in an increasingly dark world when she comes across something that seems to be addressing her directly, calling to her, asking her to follow a path to whatever lies at its end. She leaves her life behind and sets out through time and space to discover what it is.
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Virtual Author Event: Tananarive Due
Join us at 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 28 for an online discussion with Tananarive Due about her body of work. Due’s prolific body of work cements the author as a leading voice in black speculative fiction for more than 20 years. Due is an award-winning writer, educator, and producer. Her work includes sixteen books, including The Blood Colony, The Living Blood, The Good House, Joplin’s Ghost, Devil’s Wake, and the forthcoming The Reformatory. In addition, she is a contributing author of Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda and Black Panther: Sins of the King. Collaborating with her partner Steven Barnes, she also co-wrote “A Small Town” for Season 2 of Jordan Peele’s “The Twilight Zone” on Paramount Plus and two segments of Shudder’s anthology film Horror Noire.
Virtual Author Visit: Jamie Beck
Join us at 1 p.m. Thursday, June 15 for an online visit with New York Times bestselling author and award-winning photographer Jamie Beck as she talks about her book An American in Provence: Art, Life, and Photography. An American in Provence is a beautiful collection of exquisite portrait, scenic, and still-life photography. Looking to slow down from her fast-paced life in New York City, Beck embarked on a one-year getaway to Provence. One year, turning into five, Beck moved to the French countryside, documenting her life as “An American in Provence.” Equal parts art book, travel diary, memoir, and cookbook, An American in Provence transports you to the South of France.
