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Vanessa Angélica Villarreal on Magical/Realism

#MarginsBookselling: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal with Angela María Spring to discuss MAGICAL/REALISM

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“I wanted to look at trauma now, not as an individual thing but as a structural thing, as a collective thing, and as an ongoing thing.” In this virtual event hosted by The Word, A Storytelling Sanctuary, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal discusses the origins of her essay collection, Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders (Tiny Reparations Books, 2024), trauma in contemporary writing, and returning to fantasy and surrealism during a time of a crisis in a conversation with Angela María Spring.

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Vanessa Angélica Villarreal

Magical/Realism

Tiny Reparations Books

The Word, A Storytelling Sanctuary

essay collection

Angela María Spring

2024

Laura Marris: The Age of Loneliness

Laura Marris: The Age of Loneliness w/ Adam Dalva

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In this Books Are Magic event with Adam Dalva, author and translator Laura Marris reads from and speaks about her debut essay collection, The Age of Loneliness (Graywolf Press, 2024), which is featured in Page One in the September/October of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Laura Marris

The Age of Loneliness

September/October 2024

Morgan Parker on Her First Book of Essays

Morgan Parker | You Get What You Pay For: Essays

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In this event hosted by the Free Library of Philadelphia, Morgan Parker discusses her debut essay collection, You Get What You Pay For (One World, 2024), and the challenges of writing about mental health in a conversation with Shantrelle Lewis. Parker’s book is featured in Page One in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Morgan Parker

You Get What You Pay For

essay collection

One World

Shantrelle Lewis

Free Library of Philadelphia

Page One

March/April 2024

Samantha Irby in Conversation With Jazmine Hughes

Samantha Irby: Quietly Hostile w/ Jazmine Hughes

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Samantha Irby reads from her new essay collection, Quietly Hostile (Vintage, 2023), and speaks with writer and editor Jazmine Hughes for this Books Are Magic event held at St. Ann’s Church in Brooklyn, New York. Quietly Hostile is featured in Page One in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Tiny Beautiful Things Trailer

Tiny Beautiful Things | Official Trailer | Hulu

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Cheryl Strayed’s 2012 best-selling essay collection Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life From Dear Sugar has been adapted into a Hulu miniseries starring Kathryn Hahn, Sarah Pidgeon, Quentin Plair, and Merritt Wever. The series follows Clare, a writer who becomes an advice columnist while her own life is falling apart.

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Tiny Beautiful Things

Cheryl Strayed

Hulu

television adaptation

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2023

essay collection

Hilton Als on the Origins of His Name

Writer Hilton Als on how he got his name, from ‘White Girls’

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“The minute I was born I was not just myself, but the memory of someone else,” reads Hilton Als from his essay collection White Girls, published in 2014 by McSweeney’s and reprinted in 2019 by Penguin Books, in this video in which he tells the story of how he got his name.

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Sabrina Imbler

The Green Arcade | Sabrina Imbler presents "How Far the Light Reaches: a Life in Ten Sea Creatures"

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In this video, Sabrina Imbler speaks about their debut book, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures (Little, Brown, 2022), with journalist Heather Smith after an introduction by Rebecca Solnit for this event hosted by the Green Arcade in San Francisco. Imbler’s book is featured in Page One in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Sabrina Imbler

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

January/February 2023

Margaret Renkl

Predictable & Natural Cycle | Margaret Renkl | A Word on Words | NPT

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“I was writing just about the experience of grief and life amidst dying...then I wanted to tell stories that made my parents alive, that brought them back to life and made it clear why this was such a loss.” In this A Word on Words interview, Margaret Renkl talks about her debut essay collection, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss (Milkweed Editions, 2019), which is featured in “5 Over 50” in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Margaret Renkl

Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss

November/December 2019

A Word on Words

Mary Laura Philpott

Emilie Pine

Emilie Pine: The dangerous life of a wild child, surviving loss and the power of storytelling

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Emilie Pine talks about fear of failure, connecting to readers, being open about grief and loss, and the power of storytelling with Ireland Unfiltered’s Dion Fanning. Pine’s debut essay collection, Notes to Self (Dial Press, 2019), is featured in Page One in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Delighting in Independent Bookstores

The Laboratory: Delighting in Independent Bookstores by Ross Gay

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“A good bookstore is your friend.” Ross Gay reads his essay about his love for independent bookstores and how they are a “laboratory for our coming together” at one of his favorite places, the Book Corner in Bloomington, Indiana. Gay’s essay collection, The Book of Delights, is forthcoming from Algonquin Books in February.

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