Apr
9
7:00 PM19:00

Center for Fiction w/ Marlon James

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New York Times bestselling author Garrard Conley joins The Center for Fiction to celebrate his first novel All the World Beside. Known for his electrifying memoir Boy Erased, Conley’s latest work is a deeply moving queer love story set in Puritan New England. All the World Beside follows the characters of Reverend Nathaniel Whitfield and physician Arthur Lyman, two men who fall in love with each other despite the confines of their dogmatic Christian community. Nathaniel and Arthur’s love entangles their families in a complicated web of secrets as the two imagine an impossible future for themselves. With this page-turning intimate novel, Conley “gives us historical fiction at its most delicious and absorbing” (Jordy Rosenberg, author of Confessions of the Fox). Joining Conley is esteemed Jamaican writer Marlon James, author of such novels as Black Leopard, Red Wolf and A Brief History of Seven Killings. Conley and James will have a vibrant conversation on the novel and its themes of queer love and zealotry, a tension both authors have explored in their work to great acclaim. After the conversation, Conley will sign books.

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Mar
26
7:00 PM19:00

LAUNCH EVENT: Avid Bookshop w/ Luis Correa

Avid Bookshop invites the public to an author event and book signing with Garrard Conley in celebration of his book All the World Beside. This event is on Tuesday, March 26, 2024, from 7pm-8pm at Avid Bookshop. Garrard Conley will be in conversation with Avid's operations manager Luis Correa. There will be a signing after the discussion.

For accessibility requests, contact events@avidbookshop.com. Please submit your request at least two weeks before the event.

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Jun
7
7:00 PM19:00

Joseph Osmundson w/ Garrard Conley + Denne Michele Norris: Virology

Join us for an in-person event with writer and Clinical Assistant Professor of Biology at New York University Joseph Osmundson for the release of his new book Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between. Joining Joseph in conversation is author and podcast host Garrard Conley and editor-in-chief of Electric Literature Denne Michele Norris. This event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store's 3rd floor Rare Book Room at 828 Broadway on 12th Street.

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Apr
20
to Apr 22

Unbound Book Festival - Columbia, MO

Three panels:

Unbound Goes to the Movies

The list of books that have been 'greenlighted' for film adaptation is practically as old as filmmaking itself. But what is it like for those books' authors? This panel convenes three writers whose novels and memoirs are in various stages of development for the big screen.

Writing and Activism

Reading and writing are polictical acts. There is a symbiotic relationship between writing and other kinds of activism. Our panelists have followed both paths to engage in and affect change, and will discuss the relationship between these different approaches.

Rural Narratives

Writing (and writers) of rural America are as rich and varied as those of any American landscape. These three writers give voice to real and imagined lives that resonate from the holler to the rolling hills, from splendid isolation to cacophonous interference; from margin to center.

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