“When Domesticity Explodes.” Featuring Ali Eteraz (Native Believer), Adam Haslett (Imagine Me Gone), and Gayle Forman (Leave Me).
“Lost and Found.” Family, culture, violence, and loss infuse a collection of poems by Colin Channer (Providential), Jennifer Pashley’s novel The Scamp, and a short-story collection by Russell Banks (A Permanent Member of the Family). Hitched to their past, characters struggle to find optimistic possibilities, or follow a trail of blood and self-destruction. Short readings […]
“Barnes & Noble Presents: A Way to Remember and to Forget: Writing as Recall and Release.” It is easy to think of writers as harnessing personal experiences and putting them to work for their craft. Memory and experience, however, can prove powerful, tricky—more to be navigated or negotiated than simply used. Authors Jacqueline Jones LaMon, […]