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How We Became/Become: Latinidad, Identity, & Love
Javier Zamora, José Olivarez, Eloisa Amezcua, María Fernanda Ampuero
10 May 2023
6:30 pm
The New School: Kellen Auditorium
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Novel & Place
Omari Weekes, Rebecca Makkai, Sarah Thankam Mathews, Tess Gunty, Amor Towles
10 May 2023
6:30 pm
Strand Book Store
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Woman, Life, Freedom: The Role of Art in the Struggle for Human Rights
Amir Soltani, Nazanin Noroozi, Tala Madani, Nesar Mohammadi, Crystal Bayat
10 May 2023
7:00 pm
Skirball Cultural Center Los Angeles
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Ottessa Moshfegh Presents: Why Write?
Rachel Kushner, Ottessa Moshfegh, Min Jin Lee, Akhil Sharma
10 May 2023
8:00 pm
New School Auditorium
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PEN America and Lush Cosmetics present The Banned Book Library (Day 1)
11 May 2023
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Union Square Park
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Translation Slam
Stacy Mosher, Lin King, Annelise Finegan, Samantha Schnee, D.P. Snyder, Kevin Chen, María Fernanda Ampuero
11 May 2023
6:00 pm
AIA Center for Architecture
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The Affordability Crisis and Future Hope
Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom, Matthew Desmond, Heather McGhee, Alissa Quart
11 May 2023
6:30 pm
Church of the Village
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The Past’s Presence
Stacy Schiff, Heather Cox Richardson
11 May 2023
6:30 pm
Strand Book Store
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Off-Kilter: Fairy-Horror-Tales in the 21st Century
Maria Tatar, Kelly Link, Sabrina Orah Mark, Monica Brashears
11 May 2023
6:30 pm
AIA Center for Architecture
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Matters of Offense: Ayad Akhtar & Eboo Patel
Eboo Patel, Ayad Akhtar
11 May 2023
6:30 pm
The New School: Kellen Auditorium
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Earthly Delights: History, Race and Environmental Consciousness
Leah Thomas, Camille T. Dungy
11 May 2023
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
California African American Museum
Free
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Arthur Miller Lecture: Ta-Nehisi Coates
David Blight, Ta-Nehisi Coates
11 May 2023
8:00 pm
The New School Tishman Auditorium
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DREAMing Out Loud: A Public Reading
12 May 2023
6:00 pm
AIA Center for Architecture
Free
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India at 75: Writing from the Subcontinent and the Future of Free expression
Yashica Dutt, Suketu Mehta, Kiran Desai, Zia Jaffrey, Raghu Karnad, Amitava Kumar
12 May 2023
6:00 pm
Church of the Village
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Holocaust Legacies
Nina Siegal, Marianne Hirsch, Anne Berest
12 May 2023
6:00 pm
AIA Center for Architecture Tafel Hall
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Women Writing War
Carolyn Forché, Tamta Melashvili, Marjan Moghaddam, Lusine Kharatyan, Anna Badkhen
12 May 2023
6:30 pm
Strand Book Store
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A Seat at The Table: Culinary & Cultural Delights
Padma Lakshmi, Rabia Chaudry, Mayukh Sen, Dawn Davis
12 May 2023
6:30 pm
Joe's Pub
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Women Talking: Sarah Polley and Miriam Toews
Miriam Toews, Sarah Polley, Devyani Saltzman
12 May 2023
7:00 pm
Quad Cinema
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Stories that Stay: Grief, Legacy, and Sexual Politics in Fiction
Charmaine Craig, John Irving
12 May 2023
7:00 pm
James Bridges Theater
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DREAMING on Stage
12 May 2023
7:30 pm
AIA Center for Architecture
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Insurrection: The Story of January 6th
Joan Walsh, Robert Costa, Jeff Sharlet
12 May 2023
7:45 pm
AIA Center for Architecture Tafel Hall
$20
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Yellowface: R.F. Kuang in Conversation with Roxane Gay
R. F. Kuang, Roxane Gay
12 May 2023
8:00 pm
Church of the Village
$35
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Greek Lessons: Han Kang in Conversation with Katie Kitamura
Katie Kitamura, Han Kang
12 May 2023
8:00 pm
Strand Book Store
$20
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Spirited Away – Haunted Novels
Evan Harris, Samanta Schweblin, Kevin Chen, Joseph Han, Namwali Serpell
12 May 2023
9:00 pm
Joe's Pub
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PEN America and Lush Cosmetics present The Banned Book Library (Day 2)
13 May 2023
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Astor Place
Free
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Vital Voices from Indie Lit Publishers
13 May 2023
12:00 pm ET
AIA Center for Architecture
Free
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Indie Lit Fair
13 May 2023
12:00 pm
AIA Center for Architecture
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Translation Manifesto
Jennifer Croft, Alexa Frank, Aaron Robertson, Anton Hur, Bonnie Chau
13 May 2023
12:00 pm
AIA Center for Architecture
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Worker Writers School
13 May 2023
1:00 pm
Washington Square Park (Garibaldi Plaza)
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Ukrainian Writers at War
Artem Chapeye, Artem Chekh, Iryna Tsilyk, Phil Klay
13 May 2023
1:00 pm
Church of the Village
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Objectivity in the Era of Polarity
Wesley Lowery, Robert Costa, Suzanne Nossel, Jelani Cobb, Margaret Sullivan
13 May 2023
1:00 pm
Strand Book Store
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Kaleidoscope: Poetic Forms and Collective Histories
Douglas Kearney, Monica Youn, Courtney Faye Taylor
13 May 2023
2:00 pm
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
$20
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Writer/Scholar/Target: Online Harassment and the Threat to Free Expression
Franklin Leonard, Reza Aslan, Jean Guerrero
13 May 2023
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Los Angeles Central Library
Free
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Standing in the Shadows of History
Zain Khalid, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Anne Weber, Anne Berest
13 May 2023
2:30 pm
AIA Center for Architecture Tafel Hall
$20
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Writing Truthfully for Kids about Today’s Issues
Padma Venkatraman, Zetta Elliott, Traci Sorell, Ruta Sepetys, Kyle Lukoff
13 May 2023
2:30 pm
AIA Center for Architecture
Free
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Fireside Chat: Marlon James and Ben Okri – A Fire in My Head
Marlon James, Ben Okri
13 May 2023
3:00 pm
Church of the Village
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Under a Wild Sky: Conversations with Birds and the Songs of Poets
Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Priyanka Kumar, Eloise Klein Healy
13 May 2023
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
The Huntington
Free
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Intelligence and Artifice: How will A.I. Change Literature?
Meghan O'Gieblyn, Andrew Marantz, Hari Kunzru
13 May 2023
4:00 pm
Strand Book Store
$20
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Legacies of Dislocation, War, and Revolution
Dinaw Mengestu, Tsering Yangzom Lama, Fatin Abbas, Ben Okri
13 May 2023
5:00 pm
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
$20
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Politicized: Writing Trans Narratives Today
Geena Rocero, Maya Gittelman, James Hannaham, Jeremiah Moss
13 May 2023
5:00 pm
AIA Center for Architecture
Free
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Second Acts: Resolution & Irresolution after Memoir
Miwa Messer, Ashley C. Ford, Maggie Smith, Isaac Fitzgerald
13 May 2023
6:00 pm
Church of the Village
$20
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Friends for Life: The Complicated, Unbreakable Bonds
Sayaka Murata, Mona Awad, Yiyun Li, Kamila Shamsie
13 May 2023
6:00 pm
Strand Book Store
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The Second Novel
Alexander Chee, Garth Greenwell, Khaled Hosseini, Marlon James, Elif Batuman
13 May 2023
6:30 pm
Joe's Pub
$20
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For the People: An Evening with Mahogany L. Browne, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Rachel Eliza Griffiths Elizabeth Nunez, Imani Perry, Patricia Smith, and Tyriek White
Kaitlyn Greenidge, Patricia Smith, Imani Perry, Tyriek Rashawn White, Elizabeth Nunez, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Mahogany L. Browne
13 May 2023
8:00 pm
The Cooper Union
$20
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