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| | | August 28, 2017 |  Day of Dialog | Brooklyn, September 15 Barbara Hoffert - @barbarahoffert The first-ever Day of Dialog | Brooklyn is coming up fast, with the afternoon session devoted to adult books. Along with “Editors’ Picks” and “Great Book Club Books,” I’m especially excited about our “New Perspectives” panel. Granta Young Novelist and NYPL Young Lion Uzodinma Iweala’s Speak No Evil portrays a gay Nigerian American teenager. Obama campaign blogger Sam Graham-Felsen’s Green, a debut novel, limns the experiences of a white boy in a mostly African American school. Also debut fiction, Commonwealth Prize winner Akwaeke Emezi's Freshwater features a Nigerian woman in America suffering a mental health crisis. Krystal A. Sital offers a memoir, Secrets We Kept, about three generations of women in a Hindu family in Trinidad reckoning with an abusive patriarch. And Lauren Hilgers’s Patriot Number One: American Dreams in Chinatown gives immigration a New York spin. Register now! |
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|  From Hannah to Vargas Llosa: Barbara's Fiction Picks Kristin Hannah has a new book, set in Alaska, with an enormous first printing. John Hart dreams up a thriller drawing on his Edgar Award winner The Last Child. Walter Mosley launches something new, even as Joyce Carol Oates collects more terrific stories. Mario Vargas Llosa does not rest on his Nobel laurels. And Rhiannon Navin debuts with Only Child, a really big book featuring a six-year-old who survives a school shooting. |
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| |  Politics, Memoir, Essays | Barbara’s Nonfiction Picks From third-generation Mexican American Francisco Cantú, a former agent for the United States Border Patrol, to Daisy Khan on rediscovering her religion, Tom Sleigh on writing about refugees, and Marilynne Robinson on how our intellectual heritage can help us now, this week's nonfiction picks resonate with today's sociopolitical upheaval. But Stephen Pinker has graphs showing that we've never been in better shape. New York area librarians, don't miss Krystal A. Sital presenting Secrets We Kept at Day of Dialog | Brooklyn. |
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Mega best sellers Sophie Kinsella and Susan Mallery have new books, but this week's debuts will take you from a poet dubbed Iran's Sylvia Plath to a daughter of divorced parents who dons rosie-colored glasses to a young woman who marries a death row inmate whose innocence she trusts, perhaps wrongly. |
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|  New Writers To Watch | Fiction Previews The writers on this list have collectively won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, the Whiting Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Hopwood Award, Stegner and McDowell fellowships, and more, and have published work in a dazzling array of venues. New York area librarians, don't miss Akwaeke Emezi presenting Freshwater at Day of Dialog | Brooklyn. |
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|  What People Aren’t Hiding | Memoir Previews A young divinity professor facing death, the longest-serving and first-ever Muslim Green Beret, a woman who bucked her survivalist upbringing in Idaho's wilds and ended up at Cambridge, a family trying to built a future on oil, not to mention filmmaker extraordinaire David Lynch. Just some of the people you are about to meet. |
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| |  Inequality, Immigration, & Eloquent Rage | Nonfiction Previews Jason Hickel ambitiously surveys global inqualtiy. Laura Wides-Muñoz profiles young undocumented immigrants trying to improve their situation. Andrew Keen talks about fixing the future. And Brittney Cooper tells black women how to use their anger effectively. |
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|  Day of Dialog | Brooklyn Coinciding with Brooklyn Book Festival, this special-engagement event on September 15 will feature both Festival and metropolitan-area authors with panels modeled on Library Journal and School Library Journal’s long-running and annually sold-out Day of Dialog events. Get the inside scoop on the hottest new books—plus book giveaways and author signings! |
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