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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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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/
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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/
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CATEGORIES:Adult
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201120T190000
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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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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/
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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/
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CATEGORIES:Adult
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201022T190000
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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
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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/
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CATEGORIES:Adult
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200925T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200925T200000
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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/
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CATEGORIES:Adult
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200924T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200924T200000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200917T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200917T200000
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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/
LOCATION:ZOOM
CATEGORIES:Adult
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200820T163000
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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/
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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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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.
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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 
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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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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 
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/crimson-letters-3/
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CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Scuppernong Books YA Book Club (June)
DESCRIPTION:This month’s selection: I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver \nZoom Event Link
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SUMMARY:Slave Narratives with James Shields and William Andrews
DESCRIPTION:A special peformance by James Shields as Frederick Douglass\, followed by a conversation with William Andrews\, author Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony 1840-1865.   Get your copy of at Scuppernong Books! \nHow to Watch\nMeeting ID: 869 0798 5143\nPassword: 3367631919 \nJAMES SHIELDS is the Director of the Bonner Center for Community Service and Learning at Guilford College\, where he earned his undergraduate degree in History and African American studies. His interest in the Underground Railroad dates back to his days as a student of noted Guilford professor Dr. Adrienne Israel. For over 15 years he has given numerous presentations on the Underground Railroad to local schools and civic groups. James also serves as one of the lead guides for Underground Railroad tours conducted on the Guilford College campus. He is well known for his work as an actor and director in the drama produced by Snow Camp Outdoor theatre\, Pathway to Freedom which depicts the local history of the Underground Railroad. His latest project is a one man show depicting the life of Frederick Douglass. \nWILLIAM L. ANDREWS is E. Maynard Adams Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, where he also served as Chair of the Department of English and later Dean of Fine Arts and Humanities. His most recent book is Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony\, 1840-1865 (Oxford University Press\, 2019). A co-editor of the Norton Anthology of African American Literature\, Bill Andrews has authored or edited more than 45 books on a wide range of African American literature and culture. In 2018 the American Literature Society of the Modern Language Association conferred on Bill the Jay B. Hubbell Medal for lifetime achievement in the study of American Literature. \n 
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SUMMARY:Crimson Letters: Voice from Death Row\, Tessie Castillo with special guest Dr. Frank Baumgartner and co-author Terry Robinson
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\nPassword: 3367631919\n \nJUNE 16\nTopic:  Should Police Who Kill Unarmed Civilians Get the Death Penalty?\nDiscussion: In the aftermath of the murders of Ahmaud Aubrey and George Floyd at the hands of police and armed vigilantes\, some people (including the victims’ families) have called for the death penalty. Is this justice? We will discuss how the capital punishment system actually works (which is very different than how most people think it works)\, explaining the flaws and brokenness within the death penalty system that make it an unjust system of punishment\, regardless of who is on the receiving end of the sentence.\nSpecial Guest: Dr. Frank Baumgartner\, Richard J. Richardson Distinguished Professor of Political Science at UNC Chapel Hill and Author of Deadly Justice: A Statistical Portrait of the Death Penalty + co-author Terry Robinson \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 Crimson Letters: Voices from Death Row along\, with Dr. Baumgartner’s Deadly Justice: A Statistical Portrait of the Death Penalty\, 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  \n  \nDr. FRANK BAUMGARTNER is known for his work on lobbying\, policymaking\, agenda-setting\, and racial dynamics in the criminal justice system. He has published scores of articles in the major political science journals\, and had held various offices in numerous political science associations. He regularly teaches classes at all levels ranging from large lectures to small graduate and undergraduate seminars and contributes to UNC in various service capacities\, with a particular focus on faculty diversity. \n  \nTERRY ROBINSON\, also known as Chanton\, is incarcerated on North Carolina’s Death Row. He is a proponent for social justice and a voice against recidivism. Chanton has a passion for learning and is dedicated to reform.  He participated Toast Masters\, Psychology\, Drama\, and other classes to improve his social skills.  When not writing stories to challenge the stereotype of people on Death Row\, Chanton unwinds in the pages of fantasy books or hosts Dungeons and Dragons roll-playing games. He is currently working on an urban fantasy novel and his memoir.\nHis writing can be found on the blog Walk In Those Shoes. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/crimson-letters-2/
LOCATION:ZOOM
CATEGORIES:Adult
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200611T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200611T180000
DTSTAMP:20260406T163402
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SUMMARY:Crimson Letters: Voice from Death Row\, Tessie Castillo with special guest Sister Helen Prejean\, and co-author Lyle May
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: 854 7826 3169\nPassword: 3367631919\n\n \nJUNE 11\nTopic:  Why is it so hard to hold criminal justice actors accountable?\nDiscussion: It seems like criminal justice actors (law enforcement\, prosecutors\, defense attorneys\, judges) often aren’t held to the same standards of accountability as ordinary citizens. Are they really operating on different rules? In this discussion we will explain how some policies and loopholes in the criminal justice system protect its actors from being held to the same standards of justice that they implement. We will also discuss what ordinary citizens can do to fight back against these protections and increase accountability within the criminal justice system.\nSpecial Guest: Sister Helen Prejean\, longtime advocate for death penalty and criminal justice form\, and champion and friend of death row inmates + co-author Lyle May \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 Crimson Letters: Voices from Death Row\, along with Sister Helen’s memoir River of Fire\, and Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States\,  at Scuppernong Books. \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  \nSISTER HELEN PREJEAN is known around the world for her tireless work against the death penalty.  She has been instrumental in sparking national dialogue on capital punishment and in shaping the Catholic Church’s vigorous opposition to all executions. After witnessing the executions of Patrick Sonni\,er and Robert Lee Willie\, Sister Helen realized that this lethal ritual would remain unchallenged unless its secrecy was stripped away\, and so she sat down and wrote a book\, Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States. Dead Man Walking hit the shelves when national support for the death penalty was over 80% and\, in Sister Helen’s native Louisiana\, closer to 90%. The book ignited a national debate on capital punishment and it inspired an Academy Award winning movie\, a play and an opera. Sister Helen also embarked on a speaking tour that continues to this day. Sister Helen works with people of all faiths and those who follow no established faith\, but her voice has had a special resonance with her fellow Catholics. Sister Helen continues her work\, dividing her time between educating the public\, campaigning against the death penalty\, counseling individual death row prisoners\, and working with murder victims’ family members. Sister Helen’s second book\, The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions\, was published in 2004; and her third book\, River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey\, in 2019. \n  \nLYLE MAY is a prisoner on North Carolina’s Death Row who is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Specialized Studies degree through Ohio University. He has been published in Scalawag Magazine\, J Journal\, The Marshall Project\, Copper Nickle\, and PrisonWriters.com. When he is not studying or pursuing criminal justice reform\, Lyle is challenging the narrative about people on Death Row. To view more of his writing go to: www.beyondsteeldoors.com  Check out his memoir\, Waiting for the Last Train. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/crimson-letters-1/
LOCATION:ZOOM
CATEGORIES:Adult
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200526T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200526T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T163403
CREATED:20200520T000835Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200520T002907Z
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SUMMARY:Melanie Conklin\, YA author of Every Missing Piece\, Book Release E-Party “at” Scuppernong Books
DESCRIPTION:Join Greensboro Bound author Melanie Conklin for our Zoom release party for her newest novel “Every Missing Piece.” \n“Maddy Gaines sees danger everywhere she looks: at the bus stop\, around the roller rink\, in the woods\, and (especially) by the ocean. When Maddy meets a mysterious boy setting booby traps in the North Carolina woods\, she suspects the worst. Maddy is certain she’s found Billy Holcomb–the boy who went missing in the fall. Except\, maybe it’s not him. It’s been six months since he disappeared. And who will believe her anyway? Definitely not her mom or her stepdad . . . or the chief of police. As Maddy tries to uncover the truth about Billy Holcomb\, ghosts from her own past surface\, her best friend starts to slip away\, and Maddy’s world tilts once again. Can she put the pieces of her life back together\, even if some of them are lost forever?” \nSet in Summerfield\, NC\, this is the perfect middle grade summer read. Great event for parents and middle schoolers to kick off summer reading! We’ll see you there! \nFacebook event link \nHOW TO WATCH\nZOOM Meeting link
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/melanie-conklin-every-missing-piece-book-release-e-party-at-scuppernong-books/
LOCATION:ZOOM
CATEGORIES:Young Adult
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200521T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200521T203000
DTSTAMP:20260406T163403
CREATED:20200520T000602Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200520T000905Z
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SUMMARY:Guilford County Schools Poet Laureate Reading
DESCRIPTION:2020 marks the 17th year of a unique and remarkable community partnership within Guilford County Schools and supported by Greensboro Bound\, Greensboro’s Literary Festival\, in recognizing and encouraging the writing and appreciation of poetry by High School students.  This year 13 schools participated in this county-wide poetry contest.  Each school holds a local contest\, and then submits finalists for selection of a Poet Laureate.  The finalist submissions were judged and Poets Laureate selected by Dr. Wayne Johns\, poet and professor at Greensboro College. \nOne of the most rewarding and valuable elements of The High School Poet Laureate Project is the connection it creates among young writers throughout the district.  In a typical year\, this would be done through workshops and readings scheduled to bring the participants together\, but this is no typical year.  In place of in person meetings\, all laureates\, finalists and interested writers have gathered in a Canvas course for introductions\, writing prompts and planned virtual poetry readings. \n2020 High School Poets Laureate:\nJada Stewart\, Andrews High School\nImani Neal\, Dudley High School\nCate Gwinnett\, Greensboro Day School\nNoah Houser\, Grimsley High School\nIsaac Brannon\, Middle College at GTCC\nBles Cil\, Northeast Guilford High School\nAna Santos\, Northern Guilford High School\nGray\, Northwest Guilford High School\nAshoy Wynter\, Page High School\nMartin Broadbelt\, Ragsdale High School\nArshi Das\, The STEM Early College and NC A&T\nChristin Maxx Wright\, Weaver Academy\nEvie Lee\, Western Guilford High School \nHOW TO WATCH\nTo join\, visit zoom.us >> join meeting\nMeeting: 859 2234 7659\nPassword: 3367631919
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/guilford-county-schools-poet-laureate-reading/
LOCATION:ZOOM
CATEGORIES:Young Adult
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200516T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200516T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T163403
CREATED:20200511T150640Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200520T203844Z
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Casey Cep
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nJoin us Saturday\, May 16th at 7:00PM as we talk with Casey Cep\, author of Furious Hours: Murder\, Fraud\, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee (Penguin Random House). Get yourself a copy in advance Scuppernong Books ! \nFurious Hours tells the jaw-dropping true-crime story of a small-town preacher accused of killing five of his family members for the insurance money\, about the vigilante who shot him\, and about the lawyer who defended them both. Having helped report on In Cold Blood with childhood friend Truman Capote\, Harper Lee had a template for the story she wanted to tell—and being who she was\, she saw in this almost tabloid-tale a parable about race and criminal justice. In the years after To Kill a Mockingbird\, Lee tried to write this story\, but it never came to fruition. Casey Cep picks up where Lee left off and shares with us an account of three very different American lives\, including that of Harper Lee herself\, and how they briefly but spectacularly intersected. \nCasey Cep is a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her first book\, Furious Hours: Murder\, Fraud\, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee\, was an instant New York Times bestseller\, and is available in hardcover\, as an e-book\, and as an audiobook. A proud graduate of the Talbot County Public Schools\, she has an A.B. from Harvard College and an M.Phil. from the University of Oxford\, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. She was born and raised on the Eastern Shore of Maryland\, where she still lives with her family. \nHOW TO WATCH\nTo join\, visit zoom.us >> join meeting\nMeeting: 863 1406 4508\nPassword: 3367631919
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/a-conversation-with-casey-cep/
LOCATION:ZOOM
CATEGORIES:Adult
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200510T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200510T173000
DTSTAMP:20260406T163403
CREATED:20200428T152731Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200520T203719Z
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SUMMARY:Lee Smith - A Life In Writing
DESCRIPTION: \n\n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nJoin North Carolina literary eminence Lee Smith Sunday\, May 10 at 4:00PM as she talks about her writing life and her new novella\, Blue Marlin (Blair). New York Times best-selling author Lee Smith brings her masterful storytelling magic to this jewel of a novella that follows Jenny\, an adventurous 13-year-old\, down to Key West for a patched-up family vacation following the discovery of her father’s affair. \nBorn in the small coal-mining town of Grundy\, Virginia\, LEE SMITH began writing stories at the age of nine and selling them for a nickel apiece. Since then\, she has written seventeen works of fiction\, including Fair and Tender Ladies\, Oral History\, and\, most recently\, Guests on Earth. She has received many awards\, including the North Carolina Award for Literature and an Academy Award in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; her novel The Last Girls was a New York Times bestseller as well as winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. She lives in Hillsborough\, North Carolina\, with her husband\, the writer Hal Crowther. \nZoom Meeting ID: 840-5360-9210\nPassword: 3367631919 \nDon’t have Zoom? Get your FREE account here.
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/lee-smith-a-life-in-writing/
LOCATION:ZOOM
CATEGORIES:All Ages
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