From the Archive: What to Read When You Want to See a World More F**ked up Than Ours
Reading suggestions from author Celeste Ng for these f**ked-up times: worlds more—or, okay, just differently—f**ked up than ours.
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Posts Tagged: Omar el Akkad
Notable Online: 7/25–7/31
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Notable Portland: 2/6–2/12
Literary events in and around Portland this week!
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Notable Portland: 12/5–12/11
Literary events in and around Portland this week!
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Notable Portland: 2/14–2/20
Literary events in and around Portland this week!
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Notable Portland: 1/31–2/6
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...moreNotable Portland: 4/19–4/25
Literary events and readings in and around Portland this week!
...moreNotable Portland: 3/1–3/7
Literary events and readings in and around Portland this week!
...moreNotable Portland: 2/22–2/28
Literary events and listings in and around Portland this week!
...moreNotable Twin Cities: 2/11–2/17
Literary events and readings in and around the Twin Cities this week!
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HORN! REVIEWS: American War
War takes and takes, and what’s left untouched is locked up in the past, reachable only by memory.
...moreNotable Portland: 11/9–11/15
Literary events and readings in and around Portland this week!
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Nothing Foreign about It: Talking with Omar El Akkad
Omar El Akkad discusses his debut novel American War, suicide terrorism, fossil fuels, and blankets.
...moreNotable Twin Cities: 6/4-6/10
Sunday 6/4: Sheryl Sandberg, co-author of Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy, will be in conversation with Kerri Miller of MPR News. They’ll talk about building resilience and moving on after life’s inevitable setbacks. Fitzgerald Theater, 7 p.m, $35–$75. Senator Al Franken will be signing copies of his new book Al Franken, Giant of the Senate. Common Good Books, 1 p.m., […]
...moreNotable Portland: 5/25–5/31
Thursday 5/25: Claire Dederer reads from her latest memoir, Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning. Powell’s City of Books, 7:30 p.m., free. Walt Gragg reads from his new book, The Red Line. Powell’s Books on Hawthorne, 7:30 p.m., free.
...moreNotable NYC: 4/8–4/14
Saturday 4/8: Chris Hayes presents A Colony in a Nation in conversation with Wesley Lowery. St. Joseph’s College, 6 p.m, $30. Claudia Rankine and Garnette Cadogan give the keynote address at the Focus Festival running on Saturday and Sunday. Bard Graduate Center Gallery, 7 p.m., $20. Julia Loktev and Sukhdev Sandhu join the Segue series. Zinc […]
...moreNotable Portland 4/6–4/12
Thursday 4/6: The Writers in and as Art panel, presented by the BFA in Writing program at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, will feature a panel of curators, publishers, artists, and poets talking about the many ways writing functions in art practices. The panel will feature Tim Johnson, Caitlyn Murray, McIntyre Parker, Stephanie Snyder, […]
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The Strangely Plausible Abyss of American War
In Akkad’s dystopian scenario, the US faces a resurgent Mexico and a vast and newly powerful North African-Arabian empire.
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