Theater video tags: September/October 2024

The New Nonfiction 2024 Virtual Reading

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In this virtual reading and conversation, Poets & Writers Magazine features editor India Lena González introduces the five debut authors featured in “The New Nonfiction 2024” in the September/October issue: David Martinez, author of Bones Worth Breaking (MCD, 2024); Wei Tchou, author of Little Seed (A Strange Object, 2024); Zara Chowdhary, author of The Lucky Ones (Crown, 2024); Lydia Paar, author of The Exit Is the Entrance: Essays on Escape (University of Georgia Press, 2024); and Neesha Powell-Ingabire, author of Come by Here: A Memoir in Essays From Georgia’s Geechee Coast (Hub City Press, 2024).

Sofia Samatar on Opacities

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In this virtual event, Sofia Samatar reads from and discusses her book Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life (Soft Skull Press, 2024), and the chaos and strangeness of writing with Zach Powers, novelist and artistic director at the Writer’s Center. 

The Triumph of a Heart: Garth Greenwell in Conversation With Brian Gresko

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In this Poets & Writers event, novelist Garth Greenwell reads from his new book of fiction, Small Rain (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024), and joins frequent Poets & Writers Magazine contributor Brian Gresko for a discussion on the book’s themes of mortality and meaning-making, and what it takes to live a full life oriented toward art. A profile of Greenwell by Gresko appears in the September/October issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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One on One With Edwidge Danticat

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In this NGC Bocas Lit Fest event, Edwidge Danticat speaks about the roots of her work and reads excerpts from her works of fiction and nonfiction, including the preface from her new essay collection, We’re Alone (Graywolf Press, 2024), in a conversation with Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw. A profile of Danticat by Renée H. Shea appears in the September/October issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

Hiromi Kawakami and Adam Ehrlich Sachs

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In this event, authors Hiromi Kawakami and Adam Ehrlich Sachs discuss writing about specific places, fiction’s relationship to personal truth, and their literary inspirations in a conversation with Motoyuki Shibata, translator and founder of the Japanese journal MONKEY New Writing From Japan. Kawakami’s new novel, Under the Eye of the Big Bird (Soft Skull Press, 2024), ), translated from the Japanese by Asa Yoneda, is featured in Page One in the September/October issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

 

SparkTalks: Daniel Borzutsky

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In this short reading hosted by the University of Illinois Chicago’s SparkTalks series, Daniel Borzutzky reads “Apparatus #519” from his poetry collection The Murmuring Grief of the Americas (Coffee House Press, 2024), which is featured in Page One in the September/October issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Carl Phillips on Scattered Snows, to the North

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In this video from U.K. publisher Carcanet Press, Carl Phillips talks about the themes of memory and reflection within his seventeenth poetry collection, Scattered Snows, to the North (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024), which is featured in Page One in the September/October issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Laura Marris: The Age of Loneliness

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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.

Johnny Temple and Ibrahim Ahmad on Akashic Books

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In this 2020 video hosted by Philip Brady, Johnny Temple, publisher and editor-in-chief of Akashic Books, and Ibrahim Ahmad, the press’s former editorial director, discuss a day in the life of a small press and offer insights on the publishing process. Ahmad, currently an executive editor at Viking, is featured in Agents & Editors in the September/October issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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