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Live from Prairie Lights | Sarah Braunstein in conversation with Rachel Yoder promotional image

Live from Prairie Lights | Sarah Braunstein in conversation with Rachel Yoder

Friday, April 12, 2024 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” award-winner Sarah Braunstein will read from her new novel, Bad Animals. She will be joined in conversation by author Rachel Yoder. "Bad Animals opens with a delightful shock, and then the fun begins. With deft, sly, loving insight into the human animal and its genius for self-deception, Braunstein ratchets up and sustains this extraordinary novel's elegance and complexity until the last, beautiful sentence." —Kate Christensen Sarah Braunstein is the author...
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A Reading with Ida Beam Visiting Lecturer, Karen Russell

Thursday, April 11, 2024 8:00pm
Dey House
The Writers' Workshop presents a reading by Ida Beam Visiting Lecturer, Karen Russell. Karen Russell is the author of five books of fiction, including the NYT bestsellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove. She is a MacArthur Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow, and the two-time recipient of the National Magazine Award for Fiction, the Shirley Jackson Award, the 2023 Bottari Lattes Grinzane prize, the New Yorker's "20 under 40" award and the National Book Foundation's "5 under 35" award...
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Q&A with James Patterson

Thursday, April 11, 2024 11:00am
Dey House
The Writers' Workshop presents a Q&A with bestselling author, James Patterson From https://www.jamespatterson.com/landing-page/about-james/ James Patterson is the most popular storyteller of our time. He is the creator of unforgettable characters and series, including Alex Cross, the Women’s Murder Club, Jane Smith, and Maximum Ride, and of breathtaking true stories about the Kennedys, John Lennon, and Tiger Woods, as well as our military heroes, police officers, and ER nurses. Patterson has...
Ancient Exchanges presents Dan Beachy-Quick's The "All-Bell Cosmos" and the "Fundamental Eros" promotional image

Ancient Exchanges presents Dan Beachy-Quick's The "All-Bell Cosmos" and the "Fundamental Eros"

Tuesday, April 9, 2024 5:30pm
Riverside Theatre
Poems that Think, Thoughts that Sing, and the Ongoing Practice of Ancient Poetics