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Mosab Abu Toha: Forest of Noise

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“When we die, our souls leave our bodies, / take with them everything they loved.... In Gaza, our bodies and rooms get crushed. / Nothing remains for the soul.” In this Busboys and Poets event, Mosab Abu Toha reads from his collection Forest of Noise (Knopf, 2024), and discusses his recent experiences in Gaza in a conversation with Isra Chaker. An interview with Abu Toha by Destiny O. Birdsong appears in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Poetry
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Mosab Abu Toha
Forest of Noise
Knopf
Busboys and Poets
Isra Chaker
November/December 2024

In Conversation: Claire Messud and Anne Michaels

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In this event hosted by the Royal Society of Literature, Claire Messud, author most recently of This Strange Eventful History (Norton, 2024), and Anne Michaels, author most recently of Held (Knopf, 2024), speak about the shared themes of history and memory in their new novels in a conversation with novelist Elif Shafak.

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Fiction
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Claire Messud
This Strange Eventful History
Norton
Anne Michaels
Held
Knopf
Elif Shafak
Royal Society of Literature
novel
writing process
2024

Poured Over: Dinaw Mengestu

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In this episode of Poured Over: The Barnes & Noble Podcast hosted by Miwa Messer, Dinaw Mengestu discusses the complex characters with sometimes uncertain motivations in his latest novel, Someone Like Us (Knopf, 2024), the nature of diasporic communities in American cities, and the mainstream expectations placed upon immigrant stories.

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Fiction
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Dinaw Mengestu
Someone Like Us
Knopf
Poured Over
Barnes & Noble
podcast
Miwa Messer
interview
novel
2024

Word Choices With Gabrielle Zevin

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“I think the thing that you feel when you get to the right word is that you’ve found the answer to a question.” In this short video, author Gabrielle Zevin walks through parts of her novel Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Knopf, 2022) and discusses her word choices with John Sabine, social director for Merriam-Webster.

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Fiction
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Gabrielle Zevin
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Knopf
Merriam-Webster
writing process
2023

Michael Ondaatje on A Year of Last Things

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In this event for Vancouver Writers Fest’s Incite reading series, Booker Prize–winning author Michael Ondaatje reads from his new poetry collection, A Year of Last Things (Knopf, 2024), and discusses why he returned to poetry after twenty years of writing novels in a conversation with Jenny Penberthy. “The voice was the most important thing to find, that I could speak almost casually in a poem, whereas a novel is more formal and planned.”

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Poetry
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Michael Ondaatje
A Year of Last Things
Knopf
Vancouver Writers Fest
Incite reading series
Jenny Penberthy
reading
2024

Rachel Khong on Real Americans

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In this Books are Magic event with Isaac Fitzgerald, author Rachel Khong discusses the themes of race, family, and belonging in her second novel, Real Americans (Knopf, 2024), which is featured in Page One in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine. “I think it’s both an American feeling and an immigrant feeling, that there’s not enough time and you need to make the most of it,” says Khong.

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Fiction
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Rachel Khong
Knopf
Real Americans
Isaac Fitzgerald
Books Are Magic
Page One
May/June 2024

Jayne Anne Phillips on Night Watch

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In this 2023 event co-presented by Bellevue Literary Review at the Center for Fiction, Jayne Anne Phillips reads from her Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, Night Watch (Knopf, 2023), and discusses setting her story during the Civil War in West Virginia in a conversation with editor Danielle Ofri. “History gives us the facts, but literature tells us the story,” says Phillips. “The characters access the meaning of history for us.”

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Fiction
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Jayne Anne Phillips
Night Watch
Knopf
2023
Center for Fiction
Bellevue Literary Review
Pulitzer Prize
2024

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