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SUMMARY:Read Romance\, Fight Patriarchy!
DESCRIPTION:Read Romance\, Fight Patriarchy! Host SARAH COLONNA frames the conversation thusly with romance Authors KIANNA ALEXANDER\, ROSIE DANAN\, JOANNA LOWELL\, and ALISHA RAI. Our authors unpack the ways in which modern romance writers are reshaping what it means to write romance novels by crafting stories that are more reflective of the reality of “romance” and more inclusive of love in all its varied shapes and forms. [rsvp required; see below] \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book image above. \nKIANNA ALEXANDER\, like any good Southern belle\, wears many hats: doting mama\, advice-dispensing sister\, fun aunt and gabbing girlfriend. She’s a voracious reader\, an amateur seamstress and occasional painter in oils.\nAuthor Website \nROSIE DANAN writes steamy\, big-hearted books\, articles\, and tweets about the trials and triumphs of modern love. The New York Times called her debut novel\, The Roommate\, “a book about people expanding into their best possible selves…warmly funny and gorgeously sexy” has been optioned for film\, and a companion book The Intimacy Experiment was released this April. When not writing\, Rosie enjoys jogging slowly to fast music\, petting other people’s dogs\, and competing against herself in rounds of Chopped using the miscellaneous ingredients occupying her fridge.\nAuthor Website \nJOANNA LOWELL lives among the fig trees in North Carolina\, where she teaches in the English department at Wake Forest University. When she’s not writing historical romance\, she writes collections and novels as Joanna Ruocco. Those books include Dan\, Another Governess / The Least Blacksmith\, The Week\, and Field Glass\, co-authored with Joanna Howard.\nAuthor Website\n\nALISHA RAI  writes award-winning emotionally complex contemporary romance novels and is frequently sought as a speaker on a range of topics covering romance and media. She is the first author to have an indie-published book appear on Washington Post’s annual Best Books list. When she’s not writing\, Alisha is traveling\, tweeting or tiktoking.\nAuthor Website \nSARAH COLONNA is the Associate Faculty Chair of Grogan College at UNC Greensboro. She has an interdisciplinary background with degrees in Education\, Women’s and Gender Studies\, and nursing. Her research interests include teaching creatively and imaginatively using Young Adult Literature\, narrative\, and storytelling. She is a  life-long reader who added herself to her grandmother’s romance book circle as a teen and hasn’t stopped reading since.
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/romance-panel/
LOCATION:VIRTUAL
CATEGORIES:Adult,Romance
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SUMMARY:Speculative Fiction with Rivers Solomon & KM Szpara
DESCRIPTION:In their new novel\, Sorrowland\, RIVERS SOLOMON introduces us to Vern\, a pregnant woman on the run from the mysterious compound where she was raised. As she seeks shelter in the woods\, she begins to change. KM SZPARA’s new novel\, First\, Become Ashes\, follows Lark\, raised since childhood to fight and kill monsters before the FBI arrives to tell him it’s all fake. As the best of speculative fiction does\, these novels force their protagonists to question what’s real in their lives and shine a light for readers on our society’s darker realities. Join host JASON HERNDON as he discusses the speculative fiction genre\, these stories\, and the truths conjured and revealed by these tales. [rsvp required; see below] \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book image above. \nRIVERS SOLOMON writes about life in the margins\, where they are much at home. Solomon’s debut novel An Unkindness of Ghosts  appeared on the Stonewall Honor List and won a Firecracker Award. Solomon’s second book\, The Deep\, based on the Hugo-nominated song by the Daveed Diggs-fronted hip-hop group clipping\, was the winner of the 2020 Lambda Award. A refugee of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade\, Solomon was born on Turtle Island but currently resides on an isle in an archipelago off the western coast of the Eurasian continent.\nAuthors Website \nKM SZPARA is a queer and trans author who lives in Baltimore\, MD\, with his tiny dog and goofy cat. He is the author of speculative novels such as First\, Become Ashes\,  Docile\, and a third in 2022 that follows up on his Hugo and Nebula nominated novelette\, Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time. They’re about cults and trauma\, consent and debt\, and a horny trans vampire\, respectively. His short fiction appears in venues such as Tor.com\, Uncanny\, and Lightspeed.\nAuthor Website \nJASON HERNDON is an author of speculative fiction and poetry. All his characters are Black unless otherwise noted. A psychologist by training\, he is fascinated by people\, families\, and their relationships. His work appears in Star*Line Magazine and Inkwell Black. Originally from Texas\, he now resides in Greensboro\, NC with his wife and dog.
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/solomon-szpara/
LOCATION:VIRTUAL
CATEGORIES:Adult,Sci-fi/Fantasy
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210515T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210515T130000
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SUMMARY:Love\, Justice\, and Healing with Sharon Salzberg & Omid Safi
DESCRIPTION:Join us in a discussion on love\, justice\, and healing with SHARON SALZBERG and OMID SAFI.  Host MOLLY SENTELL HAILE will explore how ideas of radical love and loving kindness relate to our personal lives\, pandemic living\, and social change. Sharon Salzberg is a central figure in the field of meditation and a world-renowned teacher and author of eleven books\, including the New York Times bestseller Real Happiness and\, most recently\, Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World. Omid Safi\, translator and editor of Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition\, is a professor of Islamic studies at Duke University and leads Illuminated Tours interfaith journeys. Both Safi and Salzberg have been columnists for On Being\, a website and public radio program that explores what it is to be human and how we want to live.[rsvp required; see below] \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book image above. \nSHARON SALZBERG is a meditation pioneer and industry leader\, a world-renowned teacher\, and New York Times bestselling author. As one of the first to bring meditation and mindfulness into mainstream American culture over 45 years ago\, her relatable\, demystifying approach has inspired generations of meditation teachers and wellness influencers. Sharon is co-founder of The Insight Meditation Society in Barre\, MA\, and the author of eleven books\, including the New York Times bestseller\, Real Happiness\, now in its second edition\, her seminal work\, Lovingkindness\, and her newest book\, Real Change: Mindfulness To Heal Ourselves and the World. Sharon’s secular\, modern approach to Buddhist teachings is sought after at schools\, conferences\, and retreat centers worldwide. Her podcast\, The Metta Hour\, has amassed over 3 million downloads and features interviews with the top leaders and thinkers of the mindfulness movement and beyond. Sharon’s writing can be found on Medium\, On Being\, the Maria Shriver blog\, and Huffington Post.\nAuthor Website \nOMID SAFI is a teacher in the Sufi tradition of Radical Love. He is a professor at Duke University specializing in Islamic spirituality and contemporary thought. Omid has published extensively on the foundational sources of Islam and Sufism. His Memories of Muhammad is a biography of the Prophet Muhammad. His most recent book is Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition (published by Yale). He has been invited by the family of Dr. King to speak at Ebenezer Church on the relevance of Dr. King for today’s America\, and has delivered the Martin Luther King keynote in the annual national MLK service.  His Illuminated Tours have taken more than a 1\,000 friends from over twenty countries to Turkey and Morocco since 2002\, and he is now offering Illuminated Courses for online offerings on spiritual traditions open to seekers of all backgrounds.\nAuthor Website \nMOLLY SENTELL HAILE’s short stories and nonfiction have appeared in or are forthcoming in Oxford American\, The North Carolina Literary Review\, O. Henry Magazine\, Jabberwock Review\, and elsewhere. She was awarded the 2020 Doris Betts Fiction Prize\, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize\, and was a notable in The Best American Nonrequired Reading. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro’s MFA in Creative Writing\, she currently teaches creative writing classes for people with cancer\, survivors\, and caregivers at Hirsch Wellness Network in Greensboro and is at work her first novel. \n  \nThis presentation is sponsored by
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/salzberg-safi/
LOCATION:VIRTUAL
CATEGORIES:Adult,Non-Fiction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210515T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210515T120000
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SUMMARY:Hidden Histories with Lisa Levenstein & Shanna Greene Benjamin
DESCRIPTION:Join the discussion with SHANNA GREENE BENJAMIN and LISA LEVENSTEIN  about memory\, the public persona and the private individual\, the biographer/historian’s relationship to her subject(s)\, and the intersectionality of sexism\, racism\, and economic inequality. Benjamin’s Half in Shadow gives a full and surprising picture of the life of Nellie Y. McKay (1930-2006)\, an American literary scholar best known for her collaboration with Henry Louis Gates\, Jr. on The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. McKay\, a Black working-class woman\, kept much of her private life in secret\, creating a public persona as one of many strategies she used to navigate the primarily white male American academy while simultaneously lifting up Black scholarly and literary voices in the academy. Levenstein’s They Didn’t See Us Coming: The Hidden History of Feminism in the Nineties takes a closer look at a time when many (including the cover of Time magazine) declared feminism dead. Instead\, Levenstein uncovers a vital (and overlooked) transition period when multiracial and grassroots organizers across the globe (re)shaped the women’s movement. Hosted by ANN CAHILL.  [rsvp required; see below] \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book images above. \nDR. SHANNA GREENE BENJAMIN  is a biographer and scholar who studies the literature\, lives\, and archives of Black women. Dr. Benjamin earned her Ph.D. in English and M.A. in Afro-American Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison; she received a B.A. in English from Johnson C. Smith University—a historically Black college in Charlotte\, North Carolina.  She is also a Mellon Mays undergraduate fellow who now serves on the UNCF/Mellon Board of Advisors. Dr. Benjamin currently lives with her family in Charlotte\, North Carolina.\nAuthors Website \nDR. LISA LEVENSTEIN is Director of the Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies Program and Associate Professor of History at UNC Greensboro. Her first book\, A Movement Without Marches\, won the Kenneth Jackson Book Award. She lives in Chapel Hill\, NC.\nAuthor Website \nDR. ANN CAHILL is a professor of philosophy at Elon University. Her research interests lie at the intersection of feminist theory and philosophy of the body\, and her scholarship has addressed topics such as sexual assault\, miscarriage\, beautification\, and sex work. Her forthcoming book\, Sounding Bodies: Identity\, Injustice\, and the Voice\, co-authored with Christine Hamel\, explores the social\, political\, and ethical meanings of voice as human-generated sound. \nThis event is sponsored by \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/levenstein-benjamin/
LOCATION:VIRTUAL
CATEGORIES:Adult,Non-Fiction
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SUMMARY:Our Stories\, Our Voices: Four Years On
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 TRACY DEONN\, AMBER SMITH\, and IW GREGORIO as they look back on their contribution to Our Stories\, Our Voices. We’ll take a closer look at how their perspectives have changed over the past four years and what they might say now if they were to write their essays all over again; and how and why their writing has changed since Our Stories\, Our Voices was first published in 2018. \nSunday\, 5/16 –  Part 2 – Our Stories\, Our Voices: Writing As Activism\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 \nTRACY DEONN is the New York Times bestselling author of Legendborn and a second-generation fangirl who grew up in North Carolina. Tracy has worked in live theater\, video games\, and K–12 education. When she’s not writing\, Tracy speaks on panels at SFF conventions\, reads fanfic\, and keeps an eye out for ginger-flavored everything.\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-1/
LOCATION:VIRTUAL
CATEGORIES:Adult,Memoir/Personal Essay,Non-Fiction,Young Adult
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210514T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210514T200000
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SUMMARY:LIVE An Evening with Nnedi Okorafor
DESCRIPTION:NNEDI OKORAFOR is a Nigerian-American author of Africanfuturism and Africanjujuism for children and adults. Her works include Who Fears Death\, the Binti novella trilogy\, The Book of Phoenix\, “Akata”\, “Lagoon” and “Ikenga”\, and her latest novel\, Remote Control.  She is the winner of Hugo\, Nebula\, World Fantasy\, Locus and Lodestar Awards and her debut novel\, Zahrah the Windseeker won the prestigious Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature.  She has also written comics for Marvel\, including Black Panther: Long Live the King\, Wakanda Forever\, the “Shuri” series and an Africanfuturist comic series Laguardia\, as well as a short memoir\, Broken Places and Outer Spaces. Additionally\, she has co-written the adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Wild Seed with Viola Davis and Kenyan film director Wanuri Kahiu. Nnedi holds a PhD in literature and two master’s degrees in journalism and literature. She lives with her daughter Anyaugo and family in Illinois.  Hosted by DR. TARA GREEN\, UNCG Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies and the Linda Arnold Carlisle Excellence Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies. [rsvp & registration required; see below]\nAuthor Website \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book image above. \n  \nThis event is made possible by the UNCG University Libraries. \n \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/nnedi-okorafor/
LOCATION:LIVE ZOOM
CATEGORIES:Adult,Sci-fi/Fantasy,Young Adult
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SUMMARY:Chefs Ricky Moore & Whitney Otawka
DESCRIPTION:We’ll talk the craft of food with award winning chef and author WHITNEY OTAWKA as she shares her journey from the Mojave Desert in California to Cumberland Island\, Georgia with stops along the way in Michelin starred kitchens and a season of Top Chef\, and RICKY MOORE\, who after a stint in the military attended the Culinary Institute of America\, also worked in Michelin starred restaurants around the world\, and competed in Iron Chef before deciding to return home to North Carolina to open his own seafood joint. Host DABNEY SANDERS chats with our chefs about seafood\, a sense of place\, family\, and of course you won’t want to miss the discussion of Ben’s biscuits and the almighty pork chop. [rsvp required; see below] \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book image above. \nWHITNEY OTAWKA is a chef\, writer\, and author of The Saltwater Table: Recipes from the Coastal South. With more than 125 recipes\, The Saltwater Table is a reflection of the cuisine Whitney has explored through her travels along the Coastal South and time as Executive Chef at Greyfield Inn on Cumberland Island. The cookbook reflects a modern perspective on southern flavors with a strong emphasis on vegetables and fresh ingredients. Her recipes have been published in The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, Garden & Gun\, and Culture. She is currently overseeing the restaurant development of the soon to be open Thompson Hotel in Savannah (Summer 2021).\nChef Website \nRICKY MOORE is a self-professed evangelist of North Carolina seafood and owner of the popular Saltbox Seafood Joint restaurants in Durham\, North Carolina.  Taking inspiration from the famous wet markets in Singapore\, Moore focuses purely on the food inspired by his native Carolina coast\, and its traditional roadside fish shacks and camps. In 2007\, during his tenure as Executive Chef at Agraia in Washington DC (now known as Founding Farmers)\, Moore’s reputation earned him a spot competing against Chef Michael Symon on “Iron Chef America.” Today Moore continues to fulfill his lifelong dream as an entrepreneur\, professional\, and preserver of North Carolina fisherman and foodways.  Moore was born and raised in the North Carolina coastal town of New Bern\, where catching and eating fresh fish and shellfish is a way of life. He draws inspiration from his Eastern North Carolina culinary background\, as well as from culinary experiences across the globe.\nChef Website \nDABNEY SANDERS is the Project Manager for the Downtown Greenway – a collaborative project of Action Greensboro and the City of Greensboro and Board Chair of the Greensboro Literary Organization\, producer of the Greensboro Bound Literary Festival.  Dabney grew up in Rhode Island\, but has lived in North Carolina for more than 30 years and was named the 2019 Jim Roach Downtown Person of the Year by Downtown Greensboro. Dabney has a passion for food\, is a self-taught cook\, and has cooked professionally in the past\, but now enjoys entertaining for friends\, family\, and to support community organizations. She lives in Fisher Park with her husband\, Walker\, two dogs Hudson and Scout\, and 4 chickens Emma\, Adelaide\, Phoebe\, and Violet.
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/moore-otawka/
LOCATION:VIRTUAL
CATEGORIES:Adult,Cookbooks,Non-Fiction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210514T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210514T180000
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SUMMARY:Craft\, Violence\, and the Art of Storytelling with Rod Davis\, John Hart\, and Dennis McCarthy
DESCRIPTION:Join us in conversation with novelists JOHN HART\, ROD DAVIS\, and DENNIS McCARTHY. Hart’s latest novel\, The Unwilling\, is a thriller framed around the consequences of the Vietnam War for those who served. It is described as “crime fiction at its most raw\,” which aptly describes the work of novelist Rod Davis as well. Publisher’s Weekly describes Davis’s 2020 novel East of Texas\, West of Hell as a “crime powerhouse–a maelstrom of meth-dealing\, human trafficking\, and white supremacy. Davis is a great guide through gritty Southern territory.” Dennis McCarthy’s novel\, The Gospel According to Billy the Kid\, moves an American tale of violence and redemption west to New Mexico. Of this debut novel\, fellow Greensboro Bound author Ron Rash says\, “this novel does what all of the best ones do: we enter them\, but they also enter us\, and they stay.” Hosts BRYAN GIEMZA and AMY WELDON talk craft\, violence\, and the art of storytelling with our three authors. [rsvp required; see below] \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book images above. \nJOHN HART is the author of six New York Times bestsellers. The only author in history to win the Edgar Award for Best Novel consecutively\, John has also won the Barry Award\, the SIBA Award for Fiction\, the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award\, and the North Carolina Award for Literature. His novels have been translated into thirty languages and can be found in more than seventy countries.\nAuthor Website \nROD DAVIS is the recipient of the inaugural Fiction Award of the PEN Southwest Book Awards in 2005 for Corina’s Way\, described by Kirkus Reviews as “a spicy bouillabaisse\, New Orleans-set\, in the tradition of Flannery O’Connor or John Kennedy Toole: a welcome romp\, told with traditional Southern charm.”  His PEN/Texas-award-winning essay\, The Fate of the Texas Writer\, is included in Fifty Years of the Texas Observer and his Texas Monthly story\, Wal-marts Across Texas\, is excerpted in True Stories by David Byrne. Davis has received numerous awards as a magazine editor and writer. He earned an M.A. in Government at Louisiana State University and studied at the University of Virginia before joining the Army in 1970\, serving as a first lieutenant in South Korea. He lives in Texas.\nAuthor Website \nDENNIS McCARTHY has been a park ranger\, ecologist\, speechwriter\, editor in chief\, professor\, and attorney. At work on his second novel\, he and his wife and beagle live in Santa Fe\, New Mexico. \nBRYAN GIEMZA\, PHD\, JD is an Associate Professor of Humanities and Literature in the Honors College at Texas Tech University.  In addition to his teaching and research he serves as public scholar for the Sowell Family Collection in Literature\, Community and the Natural World. Before coming to Texas Tech he was Director of the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. \nAMY WELDON is an Alabama native\,  professor of English at Luther College in Decorah\, Iowa and the author\, most recently\, of Eldorado\, Iowa: A Novel. \nThis event is sponsored by: \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/davis-hart-mccarthy/
LOCATION:VIRTUAL
CATEGORIES:Adult,Literary Fiction,Mystery/Detective
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210514T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210514T170000
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SUMMARY:Dirty Gold: The Rise and Fall of an International Smuggling Ring
DESCRIPTION:An in-depth discussion with veteran investigative reporters KYRA GURNEY\, NICHOLAS NEHAMAS\,  JAY WEAVER and JIM WYSS as host  JOHN COX digs into their work to tell the story of death\, drugs\, and corruption within the gold mining industry within Latin America and the the impact the pursuit of greed has on the people caught both willingly and unwillingly within its wake. [rsvp required; see below] \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book image above. \nNICHOLAS NEHAMAS  is an investigative reporter at the Miami Herald\, where he was part of the Pulitzer Prize-winning team that broke the Panama Papers in 2016. He and his Herald colleagues were also named Pulitzer finalists in 2019 for the series “Dirty Gold\, Clean Cash.” He has co-authored two books\, The Grifter’s Club: Trump\, Mar-a-Lago\, and the Selling of the Presidency  and Dirty Gold: The Rise and Fall of an International Smuggling Ring. He joined the Herald in 2014\, where he covered healthcare and real estate before joining the investigations team. \nKYRA GURNEY is a journalist based in Washington\, D.C. She has worked at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and at the Miami Herald\, where she and her co-authors were finalists for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting for “Dirty Gold\, Clean Cash\,” a series on the illegal gold trade. Before working at the Miami Herald\, Kyra was a reporter at InSight Crime\, a nonprofit investigative journalism outlet based in Colombia. Kyra has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University. \nJAY WEAVER  is an award-winning journalist who has covered the federal courts and produced major investigative projects at the Miami Herald for more than 20 years. In 2018\, he collaborated with a team of Herald reporters on an investigative series about a multibillion-dollar money-laundering scheme involving Miami imports of tons of gold from South America mined by cocaine traffickers and other criminals\, which was honored as a 2019 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Explanatory Reporting.  In 2001\, Weaver was part of the Miami Herald team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News for the paper’s coverage of the federal government’s seizure of Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez.  Weaver  received his bachelor’s degree in history from the University of California at Berkeley in 1977 and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. \nJIM WYSS is a prize-winning journalist who has spent most of his career in Latin America. From 2011-2020 he was the Miami Herald’s South America correspondent based in Colombia\, where he was also part of the reporting team that uncovered the Panama Papers and won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting. He now lives in Puerto Rico\, where he covers the Caribbean for Bloomberg News. He has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University through the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship. \nJOHN COX is the Director of UNC Charlotte’s Center for Holocaust\, Genocide & Human Rights Center. He earned his PhD in History from UNC Chapel Hill and has written and lectured widely on racism and genocide\, human rights\, and resistance to Nazism and other oppressive systems. He is the author of two books on fascism\, genocide\, and resistance: To Kill a People: Genocide in the 20th Century (Oxford University Press\, 2017) and Circles of Resistance: Leftist\, Jewish\, and Youth Dissidence during the Third Reich (2009).
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/dirty-gold/
LOCATION:VIRTUAL
CATEGORIES:Adult,Non-Fiction
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210513T190000
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Roxane Gay
DESCRIPTION:Join The New York Times best-selling author ROXANE GAY in conversation with CYNTHIA GREENLEE. Gay’s writing explores what it means to be a feminist\, a woman of color\, and quite simply a human being with a body. Gay’s work includes Bad Feminist (2014)\, Difficult Women (2017)\, the memoir Hunger (2017)\, and the forthcoming (out later this year)\, Unti on Writing. She is also the author of World of Wakanda for Marvel. [rsvp required; see below] \nPurchase books from our official bookseller\, Scuppernong Books\, by clicking book images above. \nROXANE GAY’s writing appears in Best American Mystery Stories 2014\, Best American Short Stories 2012\, Best Sex Writing 2012\, A Public Space\, McSweeney’s\, Tin House\, Oxford American\, American Short Fiction\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, and many others. She is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. She is the author of the books Ayiti\, An Untamed State\, the New York Times bestselling Bad Feminist\, the nationally bestselling Difficult Women and the New York Times bestselling Hunger. She is also the author of World of Wakanda for Marvel. She has several books forthcoming and is also at work on television and film projects.\nAuthor Website \nDR. CYNTHIA GREENLEE is a Durham\, North Carolina-based historian\, writer\, and senior editor at The Counter. She’s also the winner of a coveted James Beard Foundation Award for foodways writing\, and she’s co-editor of The Echoing Ida Collection\, an anthology of Black women and nonbinary people writing about reproductive and social justice. Her work has appeared in publications as diverse as Essence\, The Nation\, The New York Times\, Literary Hub\, Longreads\, the Journal of Women’s History\, Vox\, Vice\, Smithsonian\, and the Washington Post.\nAuthor Website \n  \nThis event is sponsored by
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/roxane-gay/
LOCATION:VIRTUAL
CATEGORIES:Adult,Memoir/Personal Essay
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210513
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210517
DTSTAMP:20260406T142759
CREATED:20210106T005624Z
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SUMMARY:Greensboro Bound Literary Festival
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/greensboro-bound-literary-festival/
LOCATION:VIRTUAL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210415T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210415T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T142759
CREATED:20210325T014346Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210325T014346Z
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SUMMARY:Dinner With Friends Fundraiser
DESCRIPTION:You’re invited to our first ever VIRTUAL Dinner with Friends! Dinner With Friends is Greensboro Bound’s annual get together/fundraiser. This year we’re doing things a little differently\, but that doesn’t mean we still won’t have tons of fun with our fellow book lovers! \n\nAbout the Event \nPurchase a ticket to attend one of 10 simultaneous virtual events\, each with its own genre focus. Hosts will facilitate discussions about: cookbooks\, literary fiction\, memoir/personal essay\, mystery/detective\, non-fiction\, poetry\, romance\, sci-fi/fantasy\, short stories\, and young adult/crossover novels— all with a focus on our 2021 Festival authors! \nThe evening will conclude with a conversation with Greensboro’s own Lee Zacharias\, author of the forthcoming novel What A Wonderful World This Could Be. \nWe’ve got dinner covered\, too! Purchase meals from a pre-set menu from downtown restaurants Jerusalem Market or Machete.
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/dinner-with-friends-fundraiser/
LOCATION:ZOOM
CATEGORIES:Fundraiser
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210331T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210331T170000
DTSTAMP:20260406T142759
CREATED:20210326T190046Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210331T150208Z
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SUMMARY:TEST EVENT
DESCRIPTION:This is a test event. Test. Test. Test.
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/test-event/
LOCATION:VIRTUAL
CATEGORIES:Adult,Literary Fiction
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210308
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210313
DTSTAMP:20260406T142759
CREATED:20210106T005413Z
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SUMMARY:Greensboro Bound Children's Book Festival
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with Guilford County Schools\, we will be releasing a series of virtual presentations featuring: \n\nKelly Starling Lyons\, author of Dream Builder\nEna Jones\, author of Six Feet Below Zero\nVictoria Bond\, author of Zora and Me: The Summoner (Book 3 of 3)\nMelanie Conklin\, author of Every Missing Piece\nAlan Gratz\, author of Ground Zero\nBeth Kephart\, author of Cloud Hopper\nStacy McAnulty\, author of Millionaires for the Month\nScott Reingten\, author of the Nyxia seriesAuthor presentations will be made available to Guilford County School students via internal school system distribution.
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/childrens-book-festival/
LOCATION:VIRTUAL
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210122T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210122T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T142759
CREATED:20201231T162537Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210116T150102Z
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SUMMARY:a conversation with KASEY THORNTON
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nJoin us for an evening with debut author Kasey Thornton\, hosted by fellow author Drew Perry. \nPurchase Lord The One You Love Is Sick from our independent bookseller partner\, Scuppernong Books! \n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nHOW TO WATCH\nThis event is FREE\, however you must register to access meeting info.\n \n  \n  \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \nLORD THE ONE YOU LOVE IS SICK depicts one group of individuals’ efforts to live a modern life in a traditional Southern town. Gentry Coats’ fatal overdose stuns a small community in North Carolina\, triggering a series of tragic even \n \nts that threaten the town’s traditional values. It triggers a mental breakdown in his best friend\, a police officer\, whose wife grapples with the burden of her vows in the face of her husband’s disturbing behavior. Bitter and lonely\, Gentry’s mother struggles to place blame surrounding the death of her oldest son\, while her younger son retreats into a strange and devastating isolation. And\, on the outskirts of town\, an eight-year old girl and her older sister cope with an unspeakable secret. All the while\, the patriarchs of the community sit together gossiping at the local diner\, trusting the Lord to heal the afflictions that haunt their beloved town. A novel in stories\, Lord the One You Love is Sick is a gorgeously written and heartrending work of fiction from an important new voice in the literature of the American South. \nKASEY THORNTON writes literary fiction about the culture of the American South with a focus on religion\, family\, mental illness\, abuse\, and grief. She earned her BA in English from Elon University in North Carolina\, and attended both the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and North Carolina State University for her MFA in Fiction. During this time\, she had the opportunity to study with Wilton Barnhardt\, Nina de Gramont\, John Kessel\, Cassie Kircher\, Rebecca Lee\, Jill McCorkle\, Drew Perry\, and others. Thornton lives with fellow author Kevin Kauffmann in Durham County\, NC\, where members of her family have resided for over two hundred years. Her work has been featured in the Masters Review\, Colonnades Literary & Art Journal\, and Apeiron Review. \nDREW PERRY lives in North Carolina with his wife and two boys\, ages 6 and 4. He teaches writing at Elon University. His first novel\, This Is Just Exactly Like You (2010)\, was a finalist for the Flaherty-Dunnan prize from the Center for Fiction\, a Best-of-the-Year pick from The Atlanta Journal Constitution\, and a SIBA Okra pick. His second\, Kids These Days\, was an Amazon Best-of-the-Month pick.
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/kasey-thornton/
LOCATION:ZOOM
CATEGORIES:Adult
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201120T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201120T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T142759
CREATED:20200916T192422Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201104T213520Z
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SUMMARY:The More Extravagant Feast with Leah Naomi Green
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of conversation with Walt Whitman Award-winning poet\, LEAH NAOMI GREEN! Hosted by author\, Jacob Paul.\nThis event is co-sponsored by the High Point University Phoenix Series. \nPurchase your copies of Leah’s books at our independent bookseller partner\, Scuppernong Books! \nHow to Watch\nZoom\nMeeting ID: 821 4674 4361\nPasscode: 565858 \nLEAH NAOMI GREEN teaches English and Environmental Studies at Washington and Lee University and lives in the Shenandoah Mountains where she\, her partner\, and their daughters homestead and grow food. Green received an MFA from The University of California\, Irvine. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from The Paris Review\, Tin House\, The Southern Review\, Ecotone\, Pleiades and Shenandoah. Her most recent work\, The More Extravagant Feast (Graywolf Press\, 2020)\, which was selected by Li-Young Lee for the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets. Her chapbook\, The Ones We Have\, received the 2012 Flying Trout Chapbook prize.\n\nTHE MORE EXTRAVAGANT FEAST\nThis book keeps faithful company with the world and earns its name. The darkness and suffering of living on earth are assumed in this work\, woven throughout the fabric of its lineated perceptions and insights\, and yet\, it is ultimately informed by the deep logic of compassion (is there a deeper human logic?) and enacts the wisdom of desire and fecundity reconciled with knowledge of death and boundedness. These poems remind us that when language is used to mediate between a soul’s inner contents and the outer world’s over-abundance of being and competing meanings\, it’s possible to both transcend the nihilism of word games\, thereby discovering a more meaningful destiny for language\, as well as reveal the body of splendor which is Existence.—Li-Young Lee \nJACOB PAUL is the author of the novels\, Last Tower to Heaven (C&R Press\, November 2019)\, A Song of Ilan (Jaded Ibis\, 2015) and Sarah/Sara (Ig\, 2010). His most recent performance-based collaboration was showcased at LadyFest CLT. His work has also appeared in numerous magazines and journals\, including\, most recently in Massachusetts Review and Seneca Review. He teaches creative writing at High Point University in North Carolina. \n 
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/leah-green/
LOCATION:ZOOM
CATEGORIES:Adult
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201113T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201113T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T142759
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LAST-MODIFIED:20201109T020333Z
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SUMMARY:The Places We Belong
DESCRIPTION:A conversation about belonging\, identity\, and how we define those things for ourselves\, and how others define them for us. Join host Jason Herndon as he chats with authors Gabriel Bump author of Everywhere You Don’t Belong\, and Connor Towne O’Neill author of Down Along With That Devil’s Bones.  Get your copies of  at our independent bookseller partner\, Scuppernong Books! \nHOW TO WATCH\nZoom\nMeeting ID: 828 1236 6045\nPasscode:139172 \n  \nGABRIEL BUMP grew up in South Shore\, Chicago. His nonfiction and fiction have appeared in Slam magazine\, the Huffington Post\, Springhouse Journal\, and other publications. He was awarded the 2016 Deborah Slosberg Memorial Award for Fiction. He received his MFA in fiction from the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst. He lives in Buffalo\, New York. \nEverywhere You Don’t Belong\nIn this alternately witty and heartbreaking debut novel\, Gabriel Bump gives us an unforgettable protagonist\, Claude McKay Love. Claude isn’t dangerous or brilliant—he’s an average kid coping with abandonment\, violence\, riots\, failed love\, and societal pressures as he steers his way past the signposts of youth: childhood friendships\, basketball tryouts\, first love\, first heartbreak\, picking a college\, moving away from home. \nClaude just wants a place where he can fit. As a young black man born on the South Side of Chicago\, he is raised by his civil rights–era grandmother\, who tries to shape him into a principled actor for change; yet when riots consume his neighborhood\, he hesitates to take sides\, unwilling to let race define his life. He decides to escape Chicago for another place\, to go to college\, to find a new identity\, to leave the pressure cooker of his hometown behind. But as he discovers\, he cannot; there is no safe haven for a young black man in this time and place called America. \nPercolating with fierceness and originality\, attuned to the ironies inherent in our twenty-first-century landscape\, Everywhere You Don’t Belong marks the arrival of a brilliant young talent. \nCONNOR TOWNE O’NEILL‘s writing has appeared in New York magazine\, Vulture\, Slate\, RBMA\, and the Village Voice\, and he works as a producer on the NPR podcast White Lies\, which was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Audio Reporting. Originally from Lancaster\, Pennsylvania\, he lives in Tuscaloosa\, Alabama\, and teaches at Auburn University and with the Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project. This is his first book. \nDown Along With That Devil’s Bones\nJournalist Connor Towne O’Neill takes a deep dive into American history\, exposing the still-raging battles over monuments dedicated to one of the most notorious Confederate generals\, Nathan Bedford Forrest. Through the lens of these conflicts\, O’Neill examines the legacy of white supremacy in America\, in a sobering and fascinating work sure to resonate with readers of Tony Horwitz\, Timothy B. Tyson\, and Robin DiAngelo. \nWhen O’Neill first moved to Alabama\, as a white Northerner\, he felt somewhat removed from the racism Confederate monuments represented. Then one day in Selma\, he stumbled across a group of citizens protecting a monument to Forrest\, the officer who became the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and whom William Tecumseh Sherman referred to as “that devil.” O’Neill sets off to visit other disputed memorials to Forrest across the South\, talking with men and women who believe they are protecting their heritage\, and those who have a different view of the man’s poisonous history. \nO’Neill’s reporting and thoughtful\, deeply personal analysis make it clear that white supremacy is not a regional affliction but is in fact coded into the DNA of the entire country. Down Along with That Devil’s Bones presents an important and eye-opening account of how we got from Appomattox to Charlottesville\, and where\, if we can truly understand and transcend our past\, we could be headed next.
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/places-we-belong/
LOCATION:ZOOM
CATEGORIES:Adult
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201027T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201027T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T142759
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Laila Lalami
DESCRIPTION:LAILA LALAMI\, award-winning novelist and essayist\, joins the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) University Libraries for a virtual author talk-back. Dr. Lalami will discuss her collection of work and latest publication\, Conditional Citizens. Hosted by Dr. Omar Ali\, Dean of the UNCG Lloyd International Honors College and Professor of Global and Comparative African Diaspora History at UNCG.  This is event is co-sponsored by the UNCG University Libraries\, Lloyd International Honors College\, UNCG School of Education\, and Greensboro Bound. \nLaila Lalami was born in Rabat and educated in Morocco\, Great Britain\, and the United States. She is the author of four novels\, including The Moor’s Account\, which won the American Book Award\, the Arab-American Book Award\, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Her most recent novel\, The Other Americans\, was a Los Angeles Times bestseller\, a best-of-2019 selection from NPR\, Time\, and Kirkus\, and a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction. Her essays and criticism have appeared in the Los Angeles Times\, the Washington Post\, The Nation\, Harper’s\, the Guardian\, and the New York Times. She has received fellowships from the British Council\, the Fulbright Program\, and the Guggenheim Foundation and is currently a full professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside. She lives in Los Angeles. \nGet your copies at our independent bookseller partner\, Scuppernong Books! \nRegistration is required for this event.  \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/laila-lalami/
LOCATION:VIRTUAL
CATEGORIES:Adult
ORGANIZER;CN="UNCG University Libraries":MAILTO:nakia.hoskins@uncg.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201022T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201022T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T142759
CREATED:20200903T160122Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201016T154357Z
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SUMMARY:Make It Taste Good
DESCRIPTION:We’re talking good eats with North Carolina’s native daughter\, James Beard-award winning chef and TV personality VIVIAN HOWARD and James Beard-award nominated chef ASHA GOMEZ!\n \nGet your copies of This Will Make It Taste Good and I Cook In Color at our independent bookseller partner\, Scuppernong Books! \nHOW TO WATCH\nZoom\nMeeting ID: 821 5897 2573\nPasscode: 670210 \n\nVIVIAN HOWARD is the New York Times bestselling author of Deep Run Roots\, which was named Cookbook of the Year by the International Association of Culinary Professionals. She co-created and stars in the public television shows Somewhere South and A Chef’s Life\, for which she has won Peabody\, Emmy\, and James Beard awards. She runs the restaurants Chef and the Farmer\, Benny’s Big Time\, Lenoir\, and Handy & Hot. Vivian lives in Deep Run\, North Carolina\, with her husband\, Ben\, and their twins\, Theo and Flo. \nASHA GOMEZ is the author of the award-winning cookbook My Two Souths: Blending the Flavors of India into a Southern Kitchen\, and runs The Third Space\, an Atlanta culinary studio. Asha also works as a Chef Ambassador for CARE specifically in the area of food insecurity. She’s also involved with the James Beard’s Foundation’s Chef Boot Camp for Policy Change. \n  \nThis Will Make It Taste Good\nEach chapter of This Will Make It Taste Good is built on a flavor hero—a simple but powerful recipe like her briny green sauce\, spiced nuts\, fruit preserves\, deeply caramelized onions\, and spicy pickled tomatoes. Like a belt that lends you a waist when you’re feeling baggy\, these flavor heroes brighten\, deepen\, and define your food. And because food is the language Vivian uses to talk about her life\, that’s what these recipes do\, next to stories that offer a glimpse at the people\, challenges\, and lessons learned that stock the pantry of her life. \nI Cook in Color\nThere’s a big\, colorful world out there\, and Asha Gomez takes inspiration from all of it\, especially the food. Best known for her easy mix of cooking traditions from the American South and her homeland of Kerala in Southern India\, Asha Gomez continues to evolve her unique cooking style. In this next vibrant cookbook\, I COOK IN COLOR: Bright Flavors from My Kitchen and Around the World\, Asha embraces dishes from across the globe\, and allows readers to take a flavorful voyage from the comfort of their own home kitchen. Co-author Martha Hall Foose is the author of Screen Doors & Sweet Tea: Recipes and Tales of a Southern Cook\, the best-selling homage to Southern cooking that won both the James Beard Award for American Cooking and the Southern Independent Booksellers Award.
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/make-it-taste-good/
LOCATION:ZOOM
CATEGORIES:Adult,All Ages
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201009T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201009T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T142759
CREATED:20200903T160730Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201004T151827Z
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SUMMARY:Voting for Racial Justice
DESCRIPTION:Join us in our continued conversation on the state our democracy\, and how African Americans have used  multiple independent political tactics and strategies to expand democracy and uphold civil and political rights since the founding of the nation. \nHow to Watch\nzoom.us/join\nMeeting ID: 848 0061 1178\nPasscode: 053863 \nDR. OMAR ALI is dean of Lloyd International Honors College and professor of global and comparative African diaspora history at The University of North Carolina\, Greensboro. His latest work is the revised and expanded edition of In Balance of Power: Independent Black Politics and Third-party Movements in the United States. A graduate of the London School of Economics\, he received his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University and was named the Carnegie Foundation North Carolina professor of the year. \nThis new edition of Ali’s groundbreaking In Balance of Power includes an epilogue by independent political analyst and leader Jacqueline Salit. New material addresses the historic presidencies of both Barack Obama and Donald Trump\, as well as the rising tide of independent and anti-party sentiments.  Get your copy at our independent bookseller partner\, Scuppernong Books! \nDr. Ali is joined by host LEKHA SHUPEK. Lekha is the North Carolina State Director for  All On The Line\, a grassroots campaign to bring citizens across every issue together to win on redistricting in 2021. In this role she writes on redistricting policy\, leads public education initiatives\, and pulls together broad coalitions to fight for Fair Maps. She has a deep commitment to social justice work and previously served as Statewide Campaigns Manager for the ACLU of North Carolina. She also holds a Ph.D. in History from UNC Chapel Hill and a J.D. from Duke University School of Law. 
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/voting-for-racial-justice/
LOCATION:ZOOM
CATEGORIES:Adult
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200925T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200925T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T142759
CREATED:20200901T222432Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201102T145026Z
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SUMMARY:The Future of Democracy\, Part 2: Controlling the Vote
DESCRIPTION:An in-depth conversation on the future of democracy as we know it and the masters that pull the puppet strings. With NANCY MACLEAN\, author of Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America\, and GENE NICHOL\, author of Indecent Assembly: The North Carolina Legislature’s Blueprint for the War on Democracy and Equality. Hosted by John Cox\, Associate Professor and Director of  Center for Holocaust\, Genocide & Human Rights Studies at UNC Charlotte. \nPurchase books from our independent book seller partner\, Scuppernong Books! \nHOW TO WATCH\nZoom\nMeeting ID: 839 9440 2620\nPasscode: 041017 \nThis event is sponsored by the League of Women Voters of the Piedmont Triad\, a nonpartisan political organization encouraging informed and active participation in government. It influences public policy through education and advocacy. \n \n  \n  \nNANCY MACLEAN is an award-winning scholar of the twentieth-century U.S and the William H. Chafe Distinguished Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University. Publishers Weekly has described Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America\,as “a thoroughly researched and gripping narrative… [and] a feat of American intellectual and political history.” Booklist called it “perhaps the best explanation to date of the roots of the political divide that threatens to irrevocably alter American government.” A finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction\, it won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Current Interest\, the Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Award\, and the Lillian Smith Book Award. \n  \n  \n \nGENE R. NICHOL is the Boyd Tinsley Distinguished Professor of Law at UNC\, commentator\, and author. In 2005 he was inducted into the Order of the Long Leaf Pine\, an honor granted by the State of North Carolina to individuals who have shown extraordinary service to the state.  It is the highest award for state service granted by the Office of the Governor.   He was director of the UNC Poverty Center until it was closed by the UNC Board of Governors for publishing articles critical of the then governor and General Assembly. Since 2015\, his research has been supported by the North Carolina Poverty Research Fund. In addition to Indecent Assembly\, he is also the author of of The Faces of Poverty in North Carolina: Stories from Our Invisible Citizens. \n  \nIndecent Assembly: The North Carolina Legislature’s Blueprint for the War on Democracy and EqualityIn 2013\, North Carolina state legislature was captured by Republicans determined to produce an ultra-conservative political regime. They moved quickly and successfully toward that goal\, which the New York Times calls “North Carolina’s pioneering work in bigotry.” Other states have begun to follow the “North Carolina playbook.” \nIndecent Assembly details the agenda\, impacts\, and transgressions of the Republican North Carolina General Assembly. Nichol outlines the stoutest war waged against people of color and low-income citizens seen in America for a half-century. In 2019\, the state of North Carolina\, in short\, is involved in a brutal battle for its own decency. If the contest is lost here\, especially in the coming 2020 election season\, other states will likely abandon defining cornerstones of American liberty and equality as well. \n 
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/future-of-democracy-2/
LOCATION:ZOOM
CATEGORIES:Adult
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200924T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200924T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T142759
CREATED:20200922T195055Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200922T195136Z
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SUMMARY:$$ Young Writers Workshop: Bill Konigsberg
DESCRIPTION:Join award-winning\, former Greensboro Bound YA author BILL KONIGSBERG for a talk on the art and craft of writing for young adults LIVE this THURSDAY\, September 24 at 7:00PM. This PAID EVENT is hosted by our independent book seller partner Scuppernong Books! http://www.scuppernongbooks.com Registration includes Zoom access and a copy of Bill’s new novel The Bridge. \n 
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/bill-konigsberg/
LOCATION:ZOOM
CATEGORIES:Young Adult
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200917T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200917T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T142759
CREATED:20200831T175715Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201102T144823Z
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SUMMARY:The Future of Democracy\, Part 1: Counting the Vote
DESCRIPTION:An in-depth conversation on the voting\, voter rights\, and who is (and isn’t) counted in the process\, with ERIN GEIGER SMITH\, author of Thank You For Voting: The Maddening\, Enlightening\, Inspiring Truth About Voting in America\, and\nGILDA R. DANIELS\, author of Uncounted: The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America. Hosted by Gary Kenton\, founding member of Democracy Greensboro.  \nHOW TO WATCH\nZoom\nMeeting ID: 874 0090 8092\nPasscode: 958173 \nThis event is sponsored by the League of Women Voters of the Piedmont Triad\, a nonpartisan political organization encouraging informed and active participation in government. It influences public policy through education and advocacy. \n  \n \nTHANK YOU FOR VOTING started as a side project for Geiger Smith. Like so many fellow Americans navigating the post-2016 landscape\, she wanted to better understand the electorate. But how? “I’ve never wanted to cover politics directly\, so I was struggling to find a way to write about the ONE BIG STORY that was happening\,” she recalls. “And then one fall day I was scrolling through Instagram and saw a clip of Reese Witherspoon interviewing Ann Patchett\, and Ann said she was working on a non-fiction book about women and voting. I immediately knew I wanted to be involved in some way.” Initially tasked with research by the New York Times bestselling author\, Geiger Smith quickly became obsessed with the project. At Patchett’s suggestion and with her blessing\, Geiger Smith took the book over as her own. \nERIN GEIGER SMIITH is a journalist who has written for publications including The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. She graduated from Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism\, The University of Texas School of Law\, and the University of Texas at Austin\, and worked at Business Insider and Reuters covering legal news. She is also the author of Thank You for Voting Young Readers’ Edition (HarperCollins; On Sale: June 16\, 2020; Hardcover). She lives in Manhattan with her husband and son. For more information\, please follow @erin_gs on Twitter or @egs and @thankyouforvoting on Instagram. \n \n  \nUNCOUNTED An answer to the assault on voting rights—crucial reading in advance of the 2020 presidential election. Uncounted examines the phenomenon of disenfranchisement through the lens of history\, race\, law\, and the democratic process. Gilda R. Daniels\, who served as Deputy Chief in the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division and more than two decades of voting rights experience\, argues that voter suppression works in cycles\, constantly adapting and finding new ways to hinder access for an exponentially growing minority population. She warns that a premeditated strategy of restrictive laws and deceptive practices has taken root and is eroding the very basis of American democracy—the right to vote! \nGILDA DANIELS is an Associate Professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law and the Director of the multi-racial civil rights organization Litigation for Advancement Project’s National Office.  She is a nationally recognized voting rights and election law expert.  She served as a Deputy Chief in the Department of Justice\, Civil Rights Division\, Voting Section under the Clinton and Bush administrations.  Professor Daniels has two decades of litigation\, negotiation and consulting experience in the substantive \nvoting rights area.  She has investigated\, negotiated and litigated cases involving the Voting Rights Act of 1965\, the National Voter Registration Act and other voting statutes.  Prior to beginning her voting rights career\, Daniels was a staff attorney with the Southern Center for Human Rights representing death row inmates and bringing prison condition cases in Georgia and Alabama. She clerked in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals\, Eleventh Circuit with the Honorable Joseph W. Hatchett and is a graduate of New York University School of Law\, where she was a Root Tilden Scholar. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/future-of-democracy-1/
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CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Crimson Letters: Voice from Death Row\, Tessie Castillo with special guest Jon Powell and co-author Michael (Alim) Braxton
DESCRIPTION:Join us in a critical four-part conversation on criminal justice and death penalty reform\, racial and socio-economic inequality\, and quite simply\, the human dignity that each of us deserves. \nEach of Tessie’s four co-authors  and a special guest will join us for a live call-in four successive events. \nHow to Watch\nVisit zoom.us\nMeeting ID: 858 3167 8194\nPasscode: 3367631919 \nShare event on Facebook \nAUGUST 20\nTopic:  What would ideal criminal justice reform look like?\nDiscussion: People often throw around the term “criminal justice reform\,” but what exactly does that mean? We will discuss the concept of “restorative justice\,” which focuses not just on punishment\, but on repairing the harm caused by criminal behavior. Often this means bringing victims\, offenders and the community together to create solutions that offer repair and closure and accountability. What can ordinary citizens do to support restorative justice or criminal justice reform efforts in their communities?\nSpecial Guest: Jon Powell\, Director of the Restorative Justice Clinic at Campbell University + co-author Michael J. Braxton\, aka Alim \n  \nAbout Crimson Letters: What started as a volunteer journaling class in late 2013 would grow into genuine\, sincere\, and heartfelt friendships with several men on North Carolina’s Death Row. Tessie Castillo’s collaborative work\, Crimson Letters: Voices from Death Row\, gives readers stark insight into the utter agony and dehumanization of long-term incarceration\, as well as stories of friendship\, family\, and finding life after a death sentence. \nGet your copy of Tessie’s Crimson Letters: Voices from Death Row at Scuppernong Books. \n\n\n  \n\n\n \n  \nTESSIE CASTILLO is a freelance journalist based in Raleigh\, North Carolina. She specializes in criminal justice \, drug policy\, and harm reduction. In 2014 she became one of the first members of the public invited inside North Carolina’s Death Row. This extraordinary opportunity\, as well as the correspondence she developed with several death row residents\, helped launch her passion for criminal justice reform.  Crimson Letters: Voice from Death Row is her first book. \n  \nJON POWELL serves as the director of the Restorative Justice Clinic at Campbell University. The program receives referrals from the juvenile justice system\, juvenile court\, Wake County Schools and the Capital Area Teen Court program. Part of the mission of the Restorative Justice Clinic is to help spread the word of Restorative Justice throughout the state of North Carolina and to assist others in the state in starting Restorative Justice programming. Jon has spoken on many occasions to various groups on the topic of Restorative Justice and has assisted organizations in starting mediation programs based on the Campbell model.  Prior to working with the project\, Jon practiced law in Wake and Harnett counties. His primary focus was in criminal defense with an emphasis on juvenile law. \n  \nMICHAEL JEROME BRAXTON\, also known as Alim\, is a rapper and spiritual leader on North Carolina’s Death Row. A reformed prisoner known as Rome Alone in the rap world\, he has the distinction of being the only rapper in the world to release music from Death Row.  He is a contributing playwright for “Serving Life”\, a play about the inner thoughts of men facing the death penalty. He is also a recording artist with several artist with several songs currently on Sound Cloud.  https://soundcloud.com/rromealone  He has an upcoming album entitled\, “Mercy On My Soul”. He serves as Iman and spiritual leader for the Muslim Men of Central Prison’s Death Row. You can find him on Facebook\, YouTube\, and Instagram at @rromealone \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/crimson-letters-4/
LOCATION:ZOOM
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Tar Heel Lightnin': How Secret Stills and Fast Cars Made North Carolina the Moonshine Capital of the World
DESCRIPTION:Pour yourself a drink and join Kathleen Purvis as she chats with Daniel S. Pierce about his latest book\, Tar Heel Lightnin’: How Secret Stills and Fast Cars Made North Carolina the Moonshine Capital of the World. \n\nGet your copy at Scuppernong Books\, and grab Kathleen’s Distilling the South: A Guide to Southern Craft Liquors and the People Who Make Them while you’re there! \nHow to Watch\nZoom\nMeeting ID: 823 1726 9378\nPassword:  3367631919 \nShare event on Facebook \nFrom the late nineteenth century well into the 1960s\, North Carolina boasted some of the nation’s most restrictive laws on alcohol production and sale. For much of this era\, it was also the nation’s leading producer of bootleg liquor. Over the years\, written accounts\, popular songs\, and Hollywood movies have turned the state’s moonshiners\, fast cars\, and frustrated Feds into legends. But in Tar Heel Lightnin’\, Daniel S. Pierce tells the real history of moonshine in North Carolina as never before. This well-illustrated\, entertaining book introduces a surprisingly varied cast of characters who operated secret stills and ran liquor from the swamps of the Tidewater to Piedmont forests and mountain coves. From the state’s earliest days through Prohibition to the present\, Pierce shows that moonshine crossed race and economic lines\, linking men and women\, the rebellious and the respectable\, the oppressed and the merely opportunistic. As Pierce recounts\, even churchgoing types might run shipments of “that good ol’ mountain dew” when hard times came and there was no social safety net to break the fall. \nFolklore\, popular culture\, and changing laws have helped fuel a renaissance in making and drinking commercial moonshine\, and Pierce shows how today’s producers understand their ties to the past. Above all\, this book reveals that moonshine’s long\, colorful history features surprises that can change how we understand a state and a region. \nDANIEL S. PIERCE  the author of six books\, including Real NASCAR: White Lightning\, Red Clay\, and Big Bill France. He serves as Interdisciplinary Distinguished Professor of the Mountain South and resident professional hillbilly at the University of North Carolina Asheville where he teaches courses on the South\, Appalachia\, North Carolina\, and the National Parks. \nKATHLEEN PURVIS is a James Beard Award nominated author and food journalist with an impressive resume of publications\, including Our State Magazine\, the Charlotte Observor\, Garden & Gun\, Southern Living\, and she was listed Saveur’s 10th Annual  “Top 100”. Her books include\, Distilling the South: A Guide to Southern Craft Liquors and the People Who Make Them (UNC Press\, 2018). \nRECIPES FOR YOUR PLEASURE\n\n(from Daniel)\nAmos Owens’s (legendary Rutherford county moonshinder) Cherry Bounce\n \n\n3 parts good\, stout NC corn whiskey (legal these days!)\n1 part good\, fresh cherry juice\n1 part sourwood honey (or substitute with simple syrup)\n\n 
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/daniel-pierce/
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CATEGORIES:Adult
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200801T190000
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Jill McCorkle
DESCRIPTION:Join Julia Ridley-Smith\, in conversation with Jill McCorkle\, author of Life After Life\, Carolina Moon\, Going Away Shoes\, and her latest work\, Hieroglyphics (Algonquin Books\, July 28\, 2020)\nGrab your copy at Scuppernong Books today! \nHOW TO WATCH\nZoom\nMeeting ID: 841 4847 5761\nPassword:  3367631919 \nShare on Facebook. \nA mesmerizing novel about the burden of secrets carried across generations. \nLil and Frank married young\, launched into courtship when they bonded over how they both—suddenly\, tragically— lost a parent when they were children. Over time\, their marriage grew and strengthened\, with each still wishing for so much more understanding of the parents they’d lost prematurely. \nNow\, after many years in Boston\, they’ve retired to North Carolina. There\, Lil\, determined to leave a history for their children\, sifts through letters and notes and diary entries—perhaps revealing more secrets than Frank wants their children to know. Meanwhile\, Frank has become obsessed with what might have been left behind at the house he lived in as a boy on the outskirts of town\, where a young single mother\, Shelley\, is just trying to raise her son with some sense of normalcy. Frank’s repeated visits to Shelley’s house begin to trigger memories of her own family\, memories that she’d hoped to keep buried. Because\, after all\, not all parents are ones you wish to remember. \nHieroglyphics reveals the difficulty of ever really knowing the intentions and dreams and secrets of the people who raised you. In her deeply layered and masterful novel\, Jill McCorkle deconstructs and reconstructs what it means to be a father or a mother\, and what it means to be a child piecing together the world around us\, a child learning to make sense of the hieroglyphics of history and memory. \nJILL MCCORKLE‘s first two novels were released simultaneously when she was just out of college\, and the New York Times called her “a born novelist.” Since then\, she has published six novels and four collections of short stories\, and her work has appeared in Best American Short Stories several times\, as well as The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. Five of her books have been New York Times Notable books\, and her most recent novel\, Life After Life\, was a New York Times bestseller. She has received the New England Booksellers Award\, the John Dos Passos Prize for Excellence in Literature\, and the North Carolina Award for Literature. She has written for the New York Times Book Review\, the Washington Post\, the Boston Globe\, Garden and Gun\, the Atlantic\, and other publications. She was a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Fiction at Harvard\, where she also chaired the department of creative writing. She is currently a faculty member of the Bennington College Writing Seminars and is affiliated with the MFA program at North Carolina State University. \n  \nJULIE RIDLEY SMITH Julia teaches in the English Department at UNC Greensboro and is the former editor of Inch magazine and former associate editor at Bull City Press. She worked for almost twenty years as a freelance editor of academic books for university presses. A firm believer that art is for everyone and helps people build stronger communities\, she enjoys giving tours as a volunteer docent at the Weatherspoon Art Museum. Her short stories and essays have appeared in the Alaska Quarterly Review\, American Literary Review\, Arts and Letters\, the Carolina Quarterly\, Chelsea\, Ecotone\, Electric Literature\, the Greensboro Review\, the New England Review\, Southern Cultures\, and The Southern Review\, among other places. Her book and art reviews have been published in Art Papers\, Our State\, the Raleigh News and Observer\, and elsewhere. \n  \n 
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/jill-mccorkle/
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CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Author Panel with Molly Dektar\, Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne\, and Carter Sickels
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a panel discussion with debut authors Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne and Molly Dektar\, and Carter Sickels. Get your copies of Holding On To Nothing\, The Ash Family\, and The Prettiest Star at Scupperong Books! \nHOW TO WATCH\nZoom.us/join\nMeeting ID: 860 3238 6749\nPassword:  3367631919 \nShare on Facebook \nELIZABETH CHILES SHELBURNE\, Holding On To Nothing\nLucy Kilgore has her bags packed for her escape from her rural Tennessee upbringing\, but a drunken mistake forever tethers her to the town and one of its least-admired residents\, Jeptha Taylor\, who becomes the father of her child. Together\, these two young people work to form a family\, though neither has any idea how to accomplish that\, and the odds are against them in a place with little to offer other than tobacco fields\, a bluegrass bar\, and a Walmart full of beer and firearms for the hunting season. Their path is harrowing\, but Lucy and Jeptha are characters to love\, and readers will root for their success in a novel so riveting that no one will want to turn out the light until they know whether this family will survive. \nIn luminous prose\, debut novelist Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne brings us a present-day Appalachian story in the tradition of Lee Smith\, Silas House\, and Wiley Cash\, cast without sentiment or cliché\, but with a genuine and profound understanding of the place and its people. \n\nElizabeth Chiles Shelburne grew up reading\, writing\, and shooting in East Tennessee. After graduating from Amherst College\, she became a writer and a staff editor at The Atlantic Monthly. Her nonfiction work has been published in The Atlantic Monthly\, Boston Globe\, Boston Magazine\, and GlobalPost\, among others. She is a graduate of Grub Street’s MFA-level Novel Incubator program\, under Michelle Hoover and Lisa Borders\, where Holding On To Nothing was workshopped. She lives in Cambridge\, MA with her husband and four kids aged eight and under\, any one of whom will be the death of her\, depending on the day. \nMOLLY DEKTAR\, The Ashe Family\nWhen a young woman leaves her family—and the civilized world—to join an off-the-grid community headed by an enigmatic leader\, she discovers that belonging comes with a deadly cost\, in this lush and searing debut novel. \nAt nineteen\, Berie encounters a seductive and mysterious man at a bus station near her home in North Carolina. Shut off from the people around her\, she finds herself compelled by his promise of a new life. He ferries her into a place of order and chaos: the Ash Family farm. There\, she joins an intentional community living off the fertile land of the mountains\, bound together by high ideals and through relationships she can’t untangle. Berie—now renamed Harmony—renounces her old life and settles into her new one on the farm. She begins to make friends. And then they start to disappear. \nThrilling and profound\, The Ash Family explores what we will sacrifice in the search for happiness\, and the beautiful and grotesque power of the human spirit as it seeks its ultimate place of belonging.\n\nMolly Dektar  is from North Carolina and lives in Brooklyn. A graduate of Brooklyn College’s MFA program and Harvard College\, she is the recipient of the Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the Brooklyn College Scholarship for Fiction. At Harvard\, she was the recipient of the Louis Begley Fiction Prize. The Ash Family is her first novel. \nCARTER SICKELS\, The Prettiest Star\nSmall-town Appalachia doesn’t have a lot going for it\, but it’s where Brian is from\, where his family is\, and where he’s chosen to return to die.  Six short years after Brian Jackson moved to New York City in search of freedom and acceptance\, AIDS has claimed his lover\, his friends\, and his future. With nothing left in New York but memories of death\, Brian decides to write his mother a letter asking to come back to the place\, and family\, he was once so desperate to escape. The Prettiest Star is told in a chorus of voices: Brian’s mother Sharon; his fourteen-year-old sister\, Jess\, as she grapples with her brother’s mysterious return; and the video diaries Brian makes to document his final summer. \nThis is an urgent story about the politics and fragility of the body\, of sex\, and shame. Above all\, Carter Sickels’s stunning novel explores the bounds of family and redemption. It is written at the far reaches of love and understanding\, centering on the moments where those two forces stretch toward each other and sometimes touch \nCarter Sickels is the author of the novel The Prettiest Star\, forthcoming with Hub City Press in 2020. His debut novel The Evening Hour (Bloomsbury 2012)\, an Oregon Book Award finalist and a Lambda Literary Award finalist\, was adapted into a feature film that premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. His essays and fiction have appeared in a variety of publications\, including Oxford American\, Poets & Writers\, BuzzFeed\, Guernica\, and the Bellevue Literary Review. Carter is the recipient of the 2013 Lambda Literary Emerging Writer Award\, and earned fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, and the MacDowell Colony. He is an assistant professor of English at Eastern Kentucky University.
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/dektar-shelburne-sickels/
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CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Reading and Q&A with Lora Beth Johnson\, YA author of The Goddess in the Machine
DESCRIPTION:Join Scuppernong Books for a virtual reading of one of the hottest sci-fi YA releases of the summer with debut author LORA BETH JOHNSON and her novel Goddess in the Machine.  She will be joined in conversation by SCOTT REINTGEN\, author of the Nyxia series and Ashlords. Get your copy of Goddess in the Machine at Scuppernong Books! \nHow to Watch\nZoom.us/join\nMeeting ID: 841 2282 4166\nPassword: 3367631919 \nLORA BETH JOHNSON\, Goddess in the Machine\n \n\nHEN ANDRA WAKES UP\, SHE’S DROWNING. \nNot only that\, but she’s in a hot\, dirty cave\, it’s the year 3102\, and everyone keeps calling her Goddess. When Andra went into a cryonic sleep for a trip across the galaxy\, she expected to wake up in a hundred years\, not a thousand. Worst of all\, the rest of the colonists— including her family and friends—are dead. They died centuries ago\, and for some reason\, their descendants think Andra’s a deity. She knows she’s nothing special\, but she’ll play along if it means she can figure out why she was left in stasis and how to get back to Earth. \nZhade\, the exiled bastard prince of Eerensed\, has other plans. Four years ago\, the sleeping Goddess’s glass coffin disappeared from the palace\, and Zhade devoted himself to finding it. Now he’s hop- ing the Goddess will be the key to taking his rightful place on the throne—if he can get her to play her part\, that is. Because if his people realize she doesn’t actually have the power to save their dying planet\, they’ll kill her. \n\n\nWith a vicious monarch on the throne and a city tearing apart at the seams\, Zhade and Andra might never be able to unlock the mystery of her fate\, let alone find a way to unseat the king\, espe- cially since Zhade hasn’t exactly been forthcoming with Andra. And a thousand years from home\, is there any way of knowing that Earth is better than the planet she’s woken to? \n\nAs an only child\, Lora Beth Johnson grew up telling herself stories and reading past her bedtime. She spent her adulthood collecting degrees\, careers\, and stamps in her passport before realizing her passion for creating fictional worlds. When she’s not writing\, she’s teaching college Eng \nlish and learning new languages. She lives in Davidson\, NC with her little roommate\, Colocatire the Yorkipoo. Goddess in the Machine is her first book. \nSCOTT REINTGEN  is the author of scince fiction and fantasy books. He wrote the Nyxia trilogy\, as well as Saving Fable\, Escaping Ordinary (Fall 2020)\, Ashlords and Bloodsworn (2021). He began his career as an English and Creative Writing teacher in North Carolina. He strongly believes that every student who steps into the classroom deserves to see themselves\, vibrant and victorious and on the page. It’s his hope to encourage a future full of diverse writers. He currently lives in North Carolina with his wife Katie and his two boys\, Henry and Thomas. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/lora-beth-johnson/
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CATEGORIES:Young Adult
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Emily Nemens\, author of The Cactus League
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation with Emily Nemens\, author of The Cactus League. Get your copy at Scuppernong Books! \nHOW TO WATCH\nZoom.us/join\nMeeting: 848 7910 7458\nPassword: 3367631919 \nEMILY NEMENS\, The Cactus League\nJason Goodyear is the star outfielder for the Los Angeles Lions\, and he’s coming apart at the seams. Moviestar handsome\, paparazzi famous\, and spectacularly talented\, Goodyear is stationed with the rest of his team in the punishingly hot Arizona desert for their annual spring training. As the weeks before the season crawl on\, and Goodyear’s cracks begin to show\, the coaches\, writers\, wives\, girlfriends\, criminals\, and diehard fans following his every move are eager to find out what\, exactly\, is wrong with their star player—as they hide secrets of their own. \nHumming with the energy of a ballpark before the first pitch\, Emily Nemens’s The Cactus League unravels the tightly connected web of people behind a seemingly linear game. Narrated by a wisened sportscaster\, Goodyear’s story is interspersed with tales of Michael Taylor\, a batting coach trying to stay relevant; Tamara Rowland\, a resourceful spring-training paramour\, looking for one last catch; Herb Allison\, a legendary sports agent grappling with his decline; and a plethora of other richly drawn characters\, all striving to be seen. As Opening Day approaches and Goodyear’s secrets emerge\, he risks taking down not only himself\, but everyone around him. \nAnchored by an expert knowledge of baseball’s inner workings\, The Cactus League is a propulsive and deeply human debut that captures a strange desert world both exciting and unforgiving\, where the most crucial games are the ones played off the field. \nEmily Nemens is a writer\, illustrator\, and editor. Her debut novel\, The Cactus League\, was published by Farrar\, Straus & Giroux in February 2020. \nIn 2018\, Nemens became the seventh editor of The Paris Review\, the nation’s preeminent literary quarterly. Since her arrival\, the magazine has seen record-high circulation\, published two anthologies\, produced a second season of its acclaimed podcast\, and won the 2020 National Magazine Award for Fiction. Previously\, she coedited The Southern Review\, a storied literary quarterly published at Louisiana State University. Stories published during her tenure at The Southern Review were selected for the Pushcart Prize anthology\, Best American Short Stories\, the O. Henry Prize anthology\, and the inaugural edition of PEN America Best Debut Fiction. \nNemens grew up in Seattle and received her bachelor’s degree from Brown University\, where she studied art history and studio art. She completed an MFA degree in fiction at Louisiana State University. As an illustrator\, she’s collaborated with Harvey Pekar\, published her work in The New Yorker\, and her watercolor portraits of every woman in congress were featured across the web and on national TV. Her short stories have appeared in Blackbird (Tarumoto Prize winner)\, Esquire\, n+1\, The Iowa Review\, Hobart\, and The Gettysburg Review. She lives in New York and remains a Mariners fan. \n  \n  \n  \n \n 
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/emily-nemens/
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CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Crimson Letters: Voice from Death Row\, Tessie Castillo with special guest Dr. Robert A. Brown and co-author George Wilkerson
DESCRIPTION:Join us in a critical four-part conversation on criminal justice and death penalty reform\, racial and socio-economic inequality\, and quite simply\, the human dignity that each of us deserves. \nEach of Tessie’s four co-authors  and a special guest will join us for a live call-in four successive events.\n \nHow to Watch\nVisit zoom.us\nMeeting ID: 854 7826 3169\nPassword: 3367631919 \n  \nJUNE 25\n \nTopic:  Racial Justice and Defunding Police: What It Is (and Isn’t)\nDiscussion: The Minneapolis City Council recently announced its intention to defund and dismantle the police department. Other cities have announced plans to defund police. What does it mean to defund police? What are the potential benefits and drawbacks? How might defunding police fit into the goals of broader racial justice reform across the US? We will discuss the potential benefits and drawbacks of defunding police\, as well as why racial justice is a necessary precursor to any type of criminal justice reform. Lastly\, we will set out a blueprint for what people of all backgrounds can do to raise consciousness and support anti-racism efforts.\nSpecial Guest: Dr Robert A. Brown\, Chair in the Department of Criminal Justice at North Carolina Central University + co-author George Wilkerson.\n  \nAbout Crimson Letters: What started as a volunteer journaling class in late 2013 would grow into genuine\, sincere\, and heartfelt friendships with several men on North Carolina’s Death Row. Tessie Castillo’s collaborative work\, Crimson Letters: Voices from Death Row\, gives readers stark insight into the utter agony and dehumanization of long-term incarceration\, as well as stories of friendship\, family\, and finding life after a death sentence. \nGet your copy of Tessie’s Crimson Letters: Voices from Death Row at Scuppernong Books. \n\n\n  \n \n  \nTESSIE CASTILLO is a freelance journalist based in Raleigh\, North Carolina. She specializes in criminal justice \, drug policy\, and harm reduction. In 2014 she became one of the first members of the public invited inside North Carolina’s Death Row. This extraordinary opportunity\, as well as the correspondence she developed with several death row residents\, helped launch her passion for criminal justice reform.  Crimson Letters: Voice from Death Row is her first book. \n  \nROBERT A. BROWN is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Criminal Justice at North Carolina Central University. Prior to earning his doctorate\, he worked as a sentencing mitigation specialist for the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives (NCIA) coordinating offender-specific rehabilitation and supervision plans for offenders at the state and federal levels. Dr. Brown’s research focuses on street-level interactions between police officers and citizens (e.g.\, citation\, arrest\, use of force)\, the influence of race and gender (of officials and offenders) on criminal justice processing\, and the impact of intermediate sanctions and problem-solving courts on rehabilitation and criminal justice processing. \n  \nGEORGE WILKERSON is an award-winning writer\, artist\, and poet currently incarcerated on North Carolina’s Death Row. In 2018 he was a PEN award for his essay LimpGreyFur\, was a finalist for the Cathy Smith Bowers chapbook contest\, and won a Gold Award in the “Capitalizing on Justice” Art Competition. In addition to being the editor for Compassion\, a newsletter for people on Death Row\, his work has appeared on multiple philanthropic platforms and exhibitions\, including Hidden Voices\, The Upper Room\, The Marshall Project\, Windows on Death Row\, the Correction Accountability Project\, and LifeLines Collective. In 2019 he was a finalist for an Ellie Award \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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