Notable Online: 9/27–10/3
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Posts Tagged: Maaza Mengiste
Notable Online: 8/2–8/8
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Notable NYC: 10/5–10/11
Saturday 10/5: Kit Robinson and xtian w join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Sunday 10/6: Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey discuss She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement. Congregation Beth Elohim, 6 p.m., $33. Monday 10/7: Lilly Dancyger, Madeleine Barnes, Hilda Davis, and Emmy Favilla join the Pigeon […]
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Notable NYC: 4/20–4/26
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Notable NYC: 3/23–3/29
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
...moreNotable NYC: 8/19–8/25
Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
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What I have seen, what we have seen, is language forced into the service of violence. A rhetoric of desperation and devastation molded into the incomprehensible, then vomited out in images and words that we cannot ignore though we have tried. Lit Hub shares a beautiful, heart-rending essay by Maaza Mengiste, a meditation on Chinua Achebe, the […]
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