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EZthe washington post
wednesday, august28
,
2019
BRIAN CORNELIUS11-11:50: Panel: Fiction Through a
Different Lens. Aminatta Forna,
who was born in Scotland, raised in
Sierra Leone and Britain, and spent
periods of her childhood in Iran,
Thailand and Zambia, is the author
of the novels “Ancestor Stones,”
“The Memory of Love” and “The
Hired Man,” as well as the memoir
“The Devil That Danced on the
Water.” Her most recent novel is
“Happiness” (Atlantic Monthly).
Among her fellowships and
scholarships, R.O. Kwon has been
a National Endowment for the Arts
Literature Fellow. She was born in
South Korea and has lived most of
her life in the United States. Her
first novel, “The Incendiaries”
(Riverhead), is a national
bestseller. The book was a finalist
for the National Book Critics Circle
John Leonard Award for Best First
Book. Valeria Luiselli was born in
Mexico City and grew up in South
Korea, South Africa and India. An
acclaimed writer of fiction and
nonfiction, she is the author of the
essay collection “Sidewalks”; the
novels “Faces in the Crowd” and
“The Story of My Teeth”; as well as
“Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in
Forty Questions.” Her most recent
novel is “Lost Children Archive”
(Knopf). Signing 12:30-1:30.
12-12:45: Conversation: Poetry
With a Purpose with Jericho
Brown (bio above) and Dorianne
Laux. Laux teaches poetry in the
master of fine arts program in
creative writing at North Carolina
State University and is a founding
faculty member of Pacific
University’s low-residency MFA
program. She has been a National
Book Critics Circle Award finalist,
and she recently published “Only
as the Day Is Long: New and
Selected Poems” (Norton). Signing
1:30-2:30.
1-1:45: Conversation: The Art of the
Short Story. Brendan Mathews is
the author of “The World of
Tomorrow,” which was longlisted
for the Center for Fiction First Novel
Prize. His debut story collection is
“This Is Not a Love Song” (Little,
Brown). He is a former Fulbright
scholar to Ireland, and his fiction
has twice appeared in “The Best
American Short Stories.” Lydia
Millet, a novelist and
conservationist, is the PEN Award-
winning author of many works of
fiction, including “Sweet Lamb of
Heaven” and “Magnificence,”
which have been Pulitzer Prize and
National Book Award finalists. Her
new story collection is “Fight No
More” (Norton). Signing 2:30-3:30.
2-2:45: Conversation: The Poetry of
Place. Natasha Trethewey was
U.S. poet laureate from 2012 to
2014. Her poetry collection “Native
Guard” received the Pulitzer Prize.
Trethewey’s most recent poetry
collection is “Monument: Poems
New and Selected” (Houghton
Mifflin Harcourt). Poet and teacher
Jenny Xie is the author of a poetry
collection, “Eye Level” (Graywolf),
which won the Walt Whitman
Award and was a finalist for the
National Book Award in Poetry.
Signing 3:30-4:30.
4-4:45: Conversation: The Poetry
of Silence. Poet Sheila Black has
written more than 40 books for
children and young adults. She has
also written four poetry collections,
including “House of Bone” and
“Love/Iraq.” She will be discussing
her co-edited anthology “The Right
Way to Be Crippled and Naked: The
Fiction of Disability” (Cinco Puntos).
Ilya Kaminsky was born in
Odessa, Ukraine, when it was part
of the former Soviet Union. He
came to the United States in 1993,
when his family was granted
asylum. Kaminsky’s most recent
book of poems is “Deaf Republic”
(Graywolf). Signing 5:30-6:30.
5-6: Panel: How to Raise a Reader.
Pamela Paul is the editor of the
New York Times Book Review and
oversees all of the book coverage
at the Times, which she joined in
2011 as the children’s books editor.
She is also the host of the weekly
Book Review podcast for the
newspaper. She is the author of
five books, including “My Life with
Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book
of Books, Plot Ensues.” Her new
book (with Maria Russo) is “How to
Raise a Reader” (Workman), which
shows how to instill a love of
reading in young people. Maria
Russo is the children’s books
editor of the New York Times Book
Review. She has been a writer and
editor at the Los Angeles Times, the
New York Observer and Salon.
Renée Watson is the best-selling
author of “Piecing Me Together,”
“What Momma Left Me” and “Betty
Before X” (co-written with Ilyasah
Shabazz). Watson also has two
acclaimed picture books: “A Place
Where Hurricanes Happen”
(illustrated by Shadra Strickland)
and “Harlem’s Little Blackbird: The
Story of Florence Mills” (illustrated
by Christian Robinson), which was
nominated for an NAACP Image
Award. Watson’s “Some Places
More Than Others” (Bloomsbury)
will be published in early
September. Linda Sue Park and
Jon Scieszka will also be on the
panel (see bios under children’s
green stage). Pamela Paul and
Maria Russo signing 6:30-7:30.
6:10-6:55: Nathan Englander is a
novelist and short-story writer. His
novels include “Dinner at the
Center of the Earth” and “The
Ministry of Special Cases.” His
story collections include “What We
Talk About When We Talk About
Anne Frank,” which was a finalist
for the Pulitzer Prize. His short
fiction has been widely
anthologized, most recently in “100
Years of the Best American Short
Stories.” His most recent novel is
“kaddish.com” (Knopf). Signing
4:30-5:30.
7:05-7:55: Panel: The Enduring
Appeal of the Odyssey. Alberto
Manguel is a writer, translator,
editor, anthologist and critic but
prefers to define himself as a
reader. He was born in Buenos
Aires and grew up in Israel and
Argentina. His lengthy list of books
includes “The Library at Night,” “A
Reader on Reading,” “Curiosity,”
and “Packing My Library: An Elegy
and Ten Digressions.” He is also
the author of “Homer’s The Iliad
and The Odyssey: A Biography”
(Grove). Madeline Miller grew up
in New York City and Philadelphia
and attended Brown University,
where she earned a BA and an MA
in classics. “The Song of Achilles,”
Miller’s first novel, a bestseller, was
awarded the Orange Prize for
Fiction. Her second novel, “Circe”
(Little, Brown), also was a
bestseller and was shortlisted for
the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction.
Emily Wilson is the author of
“Mocked with Death: Tragic
Overliving from Sophocles to
Milton,” “The Death of Socrates:
Hero, Villain, Chatterbox, Saint”
and “The Greatest Empire: A Life of
Seneca.” Her new work is the
critically praised translation of
Homer’s “The Odyssey” (Norton).
Signing 2:30-3:30.
10-10:45: Jericho Brown and the Poetry Out Loud Winners.
Jericho Brown, known for his prose and poetry, is the recipient
of a Whiting Award and fellowships from the Guggenheim
Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Brown’s
first book of poems, “Please,” won the American Book Award.
Brown is a professor and the director of the creative writing
program at Emory University. His most recent book is “The
Tradition” (Copper Canyon). Signing 1:30-2:30.
BILL EICHNERPOETRY
3-3:45: Twenty-five years ago, Julia
Alvarez’s “In the Time of the
Butterflies” (Algonquin) made her an
international sensation. Alvarez was
born in New York City but lived in the
Dominican Republic until age 10, when
her family supported an unsuccessful
coup. Today, Alvarez is writer-in-
residence emerita at Middlebury
College in Vermont. Signing 4:30-5:30.