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SUMMARY:Greensboro Bound Literary Festival
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URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/greensboro-bound-literary-festival/
LOCATION:VIRTUAL
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SUMMARY:Our Stories\, Our Voices: Writing As Activism
DESCRIPTION:Join Our Stories\, Our Voices: 21 YA Authors Get Real About Injustice\, Empowerment\, and Growing Up Female in America editor AMY REED and contributors AMBER SMITH and IW GREGORIO as they discuss what it means to write in one’s own voice\, how do you make the personal political\, what is the role of literature and art in social justice\, and how is artistic or literary activism defined. \nSaturday\, 5/15 – Part 1 – Our Stories\, Our Voices: Four Years On\nSunday\, 5/16 – Your Story\, Your Voice: A Writing Workshop\n \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book images above. \n  \nAMY REED is the award-winning author of several novels for young adults\, including The Nowhere Girls\, The Boy and Girl Who Broke the World\, Beautiful\, Clean\, and Crazy. Her newest book\, the psychological thriller Tell Me My Name\,  is a near-future\, gender-swapped retelling of The Great Gatsby. Amy is a feminist\, mother\, and Virgo who enjoys running\, making lists\, and wandering around the mountains of western North Carolina where she lives.\nAuthor Website \nAMBER SMITH is the New York Times bestselling author of the young adult novels The Way I Used to Be\, The Last to Let Go\, and Something Like Gravity. An advocate for increased awareness of gendered violence\, as well as LGBTQ equality\, she writes in the hope that her books can help to foster change and spark dialogue surrounding these issues. She grew up in Buffalo\, New York\, and now lives in Charlotte\, North Carolina\, with her wife and their ever-growing family of rescued dogs and cats. \nAuthor Website \nIW GREGORIO is a practicing surgeon by day\, masked avenging YA writer by night. She is author of This is My Brain in Love\, which was awarded the 2020 Schneider Family Book Award by the American Library Association. After getting her MD\, she did her residency at Stanford\, where she met the intersex patient who inspired her debut novel\, None of the Above\, which was a Lambda Literary Finalist\, a Publishers Weekly Flying Start\, and an ALA Rainbow List selection. She is proud to be a board member of interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth\, and is a founding member of We Need Diverse Books. Her essays have been published in Newsweek\, The Washington Post\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, The Philadelphia Inquirer\, and Scientific American\, among others.\nAuthor Website \n  \nThis event is sponsored by:
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/our-stories-our-voices-2/
LOCATION:VIRTUAL
CATEGORIES:Adult,Memoir/Personal Essay,Non-Fiction,Young Adult
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210516T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210516T120000
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SUMMARY:Writing Outside the Lines: Nonbinary Authors Changing YA\, with Mason Deaver & Nita Tyndall
DESCRIPTION:Authors MASON DEAVER and NITA TYNDALL join host SHANNON JONES in a conversation about how  Young Adult authors outside the gender binary are reshaping that world\, pulling down pillars of black and white to tell stories of what growing up can mean when you feel like there’s no place for “someone like you.” In a South where queer is still occasionally spat like a curse and many people have never heard terms like cis\, trans\, or nonbinary\, Nita Tyndall and Mason Deaver show us that growing up southern and nonbinary doesn’t have to be lonely\, and can even open your eyes to loves and griefs and joys you never could have found anywhere else. [rsvp required; see below] \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book image above. \n  \nMASON DEAVER\, an award-winning\, bestselling author and designer\, was born and raised in a small eastern North Carolina town. They now live in Charlotte where they’re an active fan of horror movies and video games.\nAuthor Website \nNITA TYNDALL is a passionate queer advocate and literary translator who writes the kinds of books they needed in high school. Their translations from the German have appeared in World Literature Today\, and they have previously written for outlets like Autostraddle and were part of the Lambda Literary Writer’s Retreat in 2017. They live in North Carolina with their partner and a beautifully fluffy cat\, Pumpkin.\nAuthor Website \nSHANNON JONES is a queer writer and bookseller who manages Scuppernong Books in Greensboro\, NC. She’s also proud to help run the Authors Engaging Students program at Greensboro Bound which brings authors and books to Guilford County Schools students. \nThis event is sponsored by
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/deaver-tyndall/
LOCATION:VIRTUAL
CATEGORIES:Adult,Literary Fiction,Young Adult
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210516T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210516T130000
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SUMMARY:Art of Memoir with Ginger Gaffney and James Tate Hill
DESCRIPTION:Authors GINGER GAFFNEY and JAMES TATE (JT) HILL talk about the craft of writing memoir\, sifting through your personal life\, and facing your vulnerability on the page with host STEVE MITCHELL.  Gaffney’s Half Broke is the memoir of a woman who related more to horses than people and how she finds a home of sorts teaching at an alternative prison ranch. Blind Man’s Bluff is James Tate Hill’s memoir of becoming legally blind at age 16\, but pretending for years that he was not.  [rsvp required; see below] \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book image above. \nGINGER GAFFNEY received her MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe\, New Mexico. Her work has been published in Witness Magazine\, The Utne Reader\, Tin House and other publications. She lives between Mesa Prieta and the Rio Grande in northern New Mexico.\nAuthor Website \nJAMES TATE HILL  is the author of a memoir\, Blind Man’s Bluff\, coming July 2021 from W. W. Norton. His fiction debut\, Academy Gothic\, won the Nilsen Literary Prize for a First Novel. His essays have been listed as Notable in the 2019 and 2020 editions of Best American Essays\, and his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Prairie Schooner\, Writer’s Digest\, Story Quarterly\, and Hobart\, among others. He serves as fiction editor for the literary journal Monkeybicycle and contributing editor for Literary Hub\, where he writes a monthly audiobooks column. He lives in Greensboro\, North Carolina with his wife.\nAuthor Website \nSTEVE MITCHELL is an award-winning writer and journalist. His novel\, Cloud Diary\, is published by C&R Press. His book of short stories is The Naming of Ghosts from Press 53. He is a winner of the Curt Johnson Prose Prize and the Lorian Hemingway International Short Story Prize. He’s currently writing a mix of memoir and film criticism for a project he calls Mirrorbox. He’s co-owner of Scuppernong Books in Greensboro\, NC.
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/gaffney-hill/
LOCATION:VIRTUAL
CATEGORIES:Adult,Memoir/Personal Essay
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210516T133000
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SUMMARY:LIVE Your Story\, Your Voice: A Writing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin Our Stories\, Our Voices: 21 YA Authors Get Real About Injustice\, Empowerment\, and Growing Up Female in America editor AMY REED and contributors AMBER SMITH and IW GREGORIO in a writing workshop to explore how to find your own “voice” as a writer. Each author will speak about their journey and then guide participants through a writing exercise to uncover your own voice. Workshop will conclude with a participant discussion and an opportunity to share your writing.  A great opportunity to explore writing in an authentic voice for young adults\, parents of young adults\, aspiring YA writers\, and marginalized communities. \n \n  \n  \nConversations \nSaturday\, 5/15 – Part 1 – Our Stories\, Our Voices: Four Years On\nSunday\, 5/16 –  Part 2 – Our Stories\, Our Voices: Writing As Activism\n \nAMY REED is the award-winning author of several novels for young adults\, including The Nowhere Girls\, The Boy and Girl Who Broke the World\, Beautiful\, Clean\, and Crazy. Her newest book\, the psychological thriller Tell Me My Name\,  is a near-future\, gender-swapped retelling of The Great Gatsby. Amy is a feminist\, mother\, and Virgo who enjoys running\, making lists\, and wandering around the mountains of western North Carolina where she lives.\nAuthor Website \nAMBER SMITH is the New York Times bestselling author of the young adult novels The Way I Used to Be\, The Last to Let Go\, and Something Like Gravity. An advocate for increased awareness of gendered violence\, as well as LGBTQ equality\, she writes in the hope that her books can help to foster change and spark dialogue surrounding these issues. She grew up in Buffalo\, New York\, and now lives in Charlotte\, North Carolina\, with her wife and their ever-growing family of rescued dogs and cats. \nAuthor Website \nIW GREGORIO is a practicing surgeon by day\, masked avenging YA writer by night. She is author of This is My Brain in Love\, which was awarded the 2020 Schneider Family Book Award by the American Library Association. After getting her MD\, she did her residency at Stanford\, where she met the intersex patient who inspired her debut novel\, None of the Above\, which was a Lambda Literary Finalist\, a Publishers Weekly Flying Start\, and an ALA Rainbow List selection. She is proud to be a board member of interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth\, and is a founding member of We Need Diverse Books. Her essays have been published in Newsweek\, The Washington Post\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, The Philadelphia Inquirer\, and Scientific American\, among others.\nAuthor Website \n  \nThis event is sponsored by:
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/ya-workshop/
LOCATION:LIVE ZOOM
CATEGORIES:Adult,Memoir/Personal Essay,Non-Fiction,Workshop,Young Adult
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210516T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210516T140000
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SUMMARY:The Soul of the Novel: Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle & Kaitlyn Greenidge\, with Zelda Lockhart
DESCRIPTION:KAITLYN GREENIDGE and ANNETTE SAUNOOKE CLAPSADDLE are two rising stars in the world of literary fiction. Greenidge’s Libertie has been called “Pure brilliance. So much will be written about how it blends history and magic into a new kind of telling\, how it spins the past to draw deft circles around our present–but none of it will measure up to the singular joy of reading this book.” And Lee Smith says of Clapsaddle’s Even As We Breathe: “Clapsaddle lifts the curtain to show us a South we don’t know\, revealed through the struggles of Cowney Sequoyah\, a young man growing up within the Cherokee Nation of far Western North Carolina. A wonderful novel\, complicated as life itself — thrilling\, mysterious\, and finally\, a revelation!” This conversation is moderated by NC novelist ZELDA LOCKHART and informed by her work\, The Soul of the Full-Length Manuscript: Turning Life’s Wounds into the Gift of Literary Fiction\, Memoir\, or Poetry. \n[rsvp required; see below] \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book image above. \nKAITLYN GREENIDGE debut novel\, We Love You\, Charlie Freeman\, was one of the New York Times Critics’ Top 10 Books of 2016 and a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. She is a contributing writer for the New York Times\, and her writing has also appeared in Vogue\, Glamour\, the Wall Street Journal\, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Whiting Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Greenidge lives in Brooklyn\, New York.\nAuthor Website \nANNETTE SAUNOOKE CLAPSADDLE an enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) and holds degrees from Yale University and the College of William and Mary. Her work Going to Water won the Morning Star Award for Creative Writing from the Native American Literature Symposium and was a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. She is co-editor of the Journal of Cherokee Studies and serves on the board of trustees for the North Carolina Writers’ Network. She resides in Qualla\, North Carolina.\nAuthor Website \nZELDA LOCKHART holds a PhD in Expressive Arts Therapies\, an MA in Literature and a certificate in writing\, directing and editing from the New York Film Academy. Her latest books include Diamond Doris: The True Story of the World’s Most Notorious Jewel Thief by Doris Payne with Zelda Lockhart\, and The Soul of the Full-Length Manuscript: Turning Life’s Wounds into the Gift of Literary Fiction\, Memoir\, or Poetry. She is also the author of  Fifth Born and Fifth Born II: The Hundredth Turtle. She is Director at Her Story Garden Studios: Inspiring Black Women to Self-Define\, Heal and Liberate Through the Literary Arts\, and Publisher at LaVenson Press: Publishing for Women & Girls of Color. Organizations globally have recognized Dr. Lockhart’s talent as an inspiring teacher\, facilitator\, and public speaker.\nAuthor Website \n  \nThis event is sponsored by
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/clapsaddle-greenidge-lockhart/
LOCATION:VIRTUAL
CATEGORIES:Adult,Literary Fiction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210516T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210516T150000
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SUMMARY:LIVE Candacy Taylor and The Historic Magnolia House
DESCRIPTION:CANDACY TAYLOR\, author of Overground Railroad:The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America\, joins preservationist NATALIE PASS-MILLER and The Historic Magnolia House\, one of only four Green Book sites in North Carolina still in operation. Taylor reaches into her personal history to share the story of the Green Book and the roots of black travel in America. This beautifully researched and illustrated book chronicles the publication of the Green Book between 1936-1967. Pass-Miller’s family purchased the home at 442 Gorell Street in 1995 and worked over the next 22 years on it’s restoration. The Magnolia House was frequented by some of our nation’s most well-known African Americans including James Baldwin\, Louise Armstrong\, and Jackie Robinson during segregation. Work is underway to complete its restoration as a museum and to bring it back into operation as a hotel. Hosted by RODNEY DAWSON. [event is free\, but registration is required]\n\n \n  \n  \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book image above. \nCANDACY TAYLOR is an award-winning author\, photographer and cultural documentarian working on a multidisciplinary project based on the Green Book. She is the author of the bestselling book\, Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America (Abrams Books). Taylor is also the curator and content specialist for the exhibition\, The Negro Motorist Green Book\, which is being toured by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) from 2020 to 2024. Taylor was a fellow at the Hutchins Center at Harvard University under the direction of Henry Louis Gates Jr. and her projects have been funded by numerous organizations including\, The Library of Congress\, National Geographic\, The American Council of Learned Societies\, The National Endowment for the Humanities\, The National Park Service\, The National Trust\, and The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Taylor’s work has been featured in over 65 media outlets including The Atlantic\, CBS Sunday Morning\, The Guardian UK\, The Los Angeles Times\, The New York Times\, The New Yorker\, Newsweek\, PBS Newshour\, and The Wall St. Journal. Taylor lives in Harlem\, New York.\nAuthor Website \nNATALIE PASS-MILLER is the owner and operator of The Historic Magnolia House and Inn. A Greensboro native\, Natalie attended NC A&T State University where she received a degree in nursing. She later became an IT professional and traveled around the southeast with her family\, before moving back to Greensboro in 2018 to help her father\, Sam Pass\, complete the restoration work on the home. Natalie has a rich family lineage that includes her great\, great grandfather\, Jefferson Davis Diggs\, who was one of the founders of the school that would become Winston-Salem State University; her uncle Samuel Penn\, was Greensboro’s first Black police officers; and her aunt Eloise Logan-Penn\, was the first Black woman to run a music program in the local schools and created the Delta Sigma Theta “Sweetheart Song”. In April\, The Magnolia House announced that it would once again open as an inn this fall.\nMagnolia House Website \nRODNEY DAWSON is the Curator of Education for the Greensboro Historical Museum. He is an Army veteran\, former on-air radio personality\, and former Crisis Prevention Intervention instructor. He received his Ed.S (Education Specialist) degree from Liberty University.\nHe is responsible for a variety of the Museum’s virtual experiences\, including the Juneteenth celebration and a forthcoming Holocaust program. \nThis event is sponsored by:
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/candacy-taylor/
LOCATION:LIVE ZOOM
CATEGORIES:Adult,Non-Fiction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210516T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210516T160000
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SUMMARY:A Measure of Belonging: 21 Writers of Color on the New American South
DESCRIPTION:A Measure of Belonging: 21 Writers of Color on the New American South  editor CINELLE BARNES fell in love with a boy from the Carolinas\, moved South with him\, and immediately encountered the worst and the best The South has to offer. Committed to “making this place as big as it is\,” she found 21 other writers of color\, both established and emerging\, who are also confronting the paradoxes that envelop the South. A Measure of Belonging is the space she held for their stories. Contributors IVELISSE RODRIGUEZ and DIANA CEJAS join us to talk about their experiences— the good\, the bad\, and the befuddling— of living down south. [rsvp required; see below] \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book image above. \nCINELLE BARNES is a memoirist\, essayist\, and educator from Manila\, Philippines\, and is the author of Monsoon Mansion: A Memoir (Little A\, 2018) and Malaya: Essays on Freedom (Little A\, 2019)\, and the editor the New York Times New & Noteworthy book\, A Measure of Belonging: 21 Writes of Color on the New American South (Hub City Press\, 2020). She earned an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Converse College.  She is currently at work on a nonfiction narrative book on climate justice and the Philippine water crisis.\nAuthor Website \nIVELISSE RODRIGUEZ’s debut short story collection Love War Stories is a 2019 PEN/Faulkner finalist and a 2018 Foreword Reviews INDIES finalist. She is the founder and editor of an interview series focused on contemporary Puerto Rican writers published in Centro Voices. She was a senior fiction editor at Kweli and is a Kimbilio fellow and a VONA/Voices alum. She earned an M.F.A. in creative writing from Emerson College and a Ph.D. in English-creative writing from the University of Illinois at Chicago.\nAuthor Website\n\nDIANA CEJAS  is a pediatric neurologist and writer in Durham\, NC. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in medical journals and literary magazines including The Journal of the American Medical Association\, The Iowa Review\, and Catapult\, among others. She is currently working on a memoir that describes her life as a physician-patient. She spends her days off on her family’s farm gardening and tending to their honeybees.
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/a-measure-of-belonging/
LOCATION:VIRTUAL
CATEGORIES:Adult,Literary Fiction,Memoir/Personal Essay,Non-Fiction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210516T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210516T170000
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SUMMARY:Naima Coster & Leesa Cross-Smith
DESCRIPTION:At the center of the powerful\, tender new titles\, What’s Mine and Yours by NAIMA COSTER and This Close to Okay by LEESA CROSS-SMITH\, are deftly wrought\, perfectly imperfect characters whose paths can never be unwoven from not only each other\, but also from the ways we see our communities and ourselves. Life is often\, if not entirely\, a series of crossed paths. Some paths are random kismet\, some are paths you get to suddenly\, with a crash. Hosted by MACKENZIE FILSON. \n[rsvp required; see below] \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book image above. \nNAIMA COSTER is the author of Halsey Street and What’s Mine and Yours. Naima has taught writing for over a decade in community settings\, youth programs\, and universities. Most recently\, she has taught writing in the MFA programs at the City College of New York\, Antioch University in L.A.\, and the University of Michigan. She also writes the newsletter\, Bloom How You Must. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.\nAuthor Website \nLEESA CROSS-SMITH is God’s little creature from Kentucky. She is an INFJ\, a homemaker\, a plant lover\, and the author of This Close To Okay\, So We Can Glow: Short Stories\, Every Kiss A War and Whiskey & Ribbons. She lives in Kentucky with her husband and children.\nAuthor Website \nMACKENZIE FILSON  is a writer\, bookseller\, and too-proud Floridian. A graduate of Emerson College’s publishing program as well as Columbia University’s publishing course\, she has worked in publicity for Penguin Random House\, as well as a bookseller for The Harvard Coop\, Skylight Books and\, of course\, Scuppernong Books.
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/coster-cross-smith/
LOCATION:VIRTUAL
CATEGORIES:Adult,Literary Fiction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210516T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210516T180000
DTSTAMP:20260412T011957
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SUMMARY:A Conversation on Race & Grace in America\, with Denise Kiernan & D. Watkins
DESCRIPTION:The non-fiction work of DENISE KIERNAN has become surefire bestseller material (The Girls of Atomic City\, The Last Castle) and her latest book\, We Gather Together: A Nation Divided\, a President in Turmoil\, and a Historic Campaign to Embrace Gratitude and Grace\, brings her considerable gifts to the untold story of Lincoln and the burgeoning of the Thanksgiving holiday. D. WATKINS\, author of the recent We Speak for Ourselves: How Woke Culture Prohibits Progress (and also The Cook-Up: A Crack Rock Memoir and The Beast Side: Living (and Dying) While Black in America)\, introduces you to Down Bottom\, the storied community of East Baltimore that holds a mirror to America’s poor black neighborhoods–“hoods” that could just as easily be in Chicago\, Detroit\, Oakland\, or Atlanta. As Watkins sees it\, the perspective of people who live in economically disadvantaged black communities is largely absent from the commentary of many top intellectuals who speak and write about race.[rsvp required; see below] \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book image above. \nDENISE KIERNAN is a writer and producer. She writes for herself\, has ghost written\, and has written for both adults and children. And she’s occasionally written with her husband\, author Joseph D’Agnese. She started out in journalism and has covered everything from women’s issues\, sports and history to food\, travel and education in places like The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, The Village Voice\, Saveur\, Discover\, Ms.\, Reader’s Digest\, and others. She also worked as head writer for ABC‘s “Who Wants to be Millionaire” during its Emmy award-winning first season and has produced for ESPN\, MSNBC and a variety of independent productions.\nAuthor Website \nD. WATKINS is Editor at Large for Salon. He holds a Master’s in Education from Johns Hopkins University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Baltimore where he is a  college lecturer  and founder of the BMORE Writers Project. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Beast Side: Living (and Dying) While Black in America and The Cook Up: A Crack Rock Memoir and We Speak for Ourselves: A Word from Forgotten Black America. Watkins is from and lives in Baltimore.\nAuthor Website
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/kiernan-watkins/
LOCATION:VIRTUAL
CATEGORIES:Adult,Non-Fiction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210516T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210516T190000
DTSTAMP:20260412T011957
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SUMMARY:Wilmington's Lie: A Conversation with John Sayles & David Zucchino
DESCRIPTION:  \nJOHN SAYLES is an indy film legend. He has written and directed dozens of movies including Lone Star\, Brother From Another Planet\, Matewan\, Eight Men Out\, and The Secret of Roan Inish. Sayles has also written a handful of novels and story collections. His 2011 novel\, A Moment in the Sun\, looks at America in 1898 and the Wilmington Race Riot figures prominently in the narrative. DAVID ZUCCHINO’s 2020 nonfiction book\, Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy\, is the definitive book on the massacre. Together\, Sayles and Zucchino will talk about the atmosphere in Wilmington in 1898 and the lasting impact of the white riot through the 20th Century. The discussion will also focus on the parallels with the January 6\, 2021 insurrection and the continued strain of white supremacy in America. Hosted by BRIAN LAMPKIN.  (rsvp required; see below) \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book image above. \nDAVID ZUCCHINO is the author of Wilmington’s Lie\, Thunder Run and Myth of the Welfare Queen. He is a contributing writer for The New York Times\, covering Afghanistan and Iraq. He has been a foreign correspondent from more than 30 years\, reporting from more than three dozen countries. He is a four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting from apartheid South Africa.\nAuthor Website \nJOHN SAYLES career as a storyteller began with his fiction. His first novel was Pride of the Bimbos (1975) followed by Union Dues (nominated for National Book Award and National Critics Circle Award)\, the short story collection At the Anarchists Convention\, Los Gusanos\, Dillinger in Hollywood\, and his epic historical novel A Moment in the Sun . His latest work is Yellow Earth. Fiction brought Sayles to the attention of legendary Director/Producer Roger Corman\, for whom he wrote screenplays. Screenwriting is still Sayles’ primary profession\, and credited or not\, he has been able to work in a myriad of genres.\nAuthor Website \nBRIAN LAMPKIN is the Vice Chair of the Greensboro Literary Organization\, the producer of the Greensboro Bound Literary Festival\, author of The Tarboro Three: Rape\, Race\, and Secrecy\, and co-owner of Scuppernong Books. A former social worker and teacher\, Brian spends his life advocating for social justice and sharing his love of the written word with any and everyone who walks through Scup’s doors.
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/sayles-zucchino/
LOCATION:VIRTUAL
CATEGORIES:Adult,Non-Fiction
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