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SUMMARY:Book Release: Memphis Noir
DESCRIPTION:Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies\, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. \nFeaturing brand-new stories by: Richard J. Alley\, David Wesley Williams\, Dwight Fryer\, Jamey Hatley\, Adam Shaw\, Penny Register-Shaw\, Kaye George\, Arthur Flowers\, Suzanne Berube Rorhus\, Ehi Ike\, Lee Martin\, Stephen Clements\, Cary Holladay\, John Bensko\, Sheree Renée Thomas\, and Troy L. Wiggins. \nFrom the introduction by Laureen P. Cantwell & Leonard Gill: \n“A city equal parts darkness and hope. A scarred city. An often violent one. But a resilient city too. \nThat’s our Memphis. \nLike many cities\, we have a namesake—in Egypt\, Men-nefer became Menfe became Memphis\, enduring and beautiful\, on the banks of the Nile. Centuries later\, another continent\, another people\, another river: Memphis\, Tennessee\, the soul of the Mississippi Delta\, was formed. We are a place born of history\, inhabited as much by memory as by the living—the past and present inextricably and inescapably linked . . . . Memphis is marvels and misfits—two-faced and unabashedly so.   \nWe are Memphis\, and this is our noir.”
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/visiting-writer-memphis-noir/
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SUMMARY:3/2/1 film workshop
DESCRIPTION:for high school students / mondays\, 3 – 4:30 pm / 6-week program \nmax 14 participants—email Nat at nat@crosstownarts.org to reserve a spot\, or to help out. \njoin Crosstown Arts’ videographer Justin Thompson to learn how to script\, shoot\, and edit your own original short film. we’ll follow a 3\, 2\, 1 format (3 pages of script\, 2 actors\, 1 location) and work in teams of two. at the end of the six weeks\, the films will be screened at a premiere\, and each participant will receive a DVD of all films from the workshop.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/321-film-workshop/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Pinch Journal Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Join the staff of The Pinch Literary Journal for revelry\, merriment\, and general hooligantry as we officially release to you our latest issue. \nFeaturing two authors from the journal: cat-wrangling best-american poet diva Emma Bolden and friend-to-bats\, hardcore coffee-drinking fiction guy Nickalus Rupert. \nPlus a mixtape highlighting the best of Prince and the Revolution. \nAlso\, a silent auction with some of the best things we’ve ever brought to a Pinch party. We will have a hard time not fighting for these baskets ourselves\, so come make a bid and help raise funds to keep our journal in print. \nLast\, but never least\, Hot Mess Burritos will be parked out front\, we’ll have Wiseacre beer on tap\, and\, as usual\, a healthy offering of Pinch punch. \nJoin us!\nhttp://www.pinchjournal.com/\nhttp://emmabolden.com/\n@nlrupert\n@HotMessMemphis\n@pinchjournal
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/pinch-journal-party-1015/
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SUMMARY:Visiting Writer Tom Piazza
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our latest collaboration with The Booksellers at Laurelwood as we welcome Tom Piazza to Memphis to read from and sign his new novel\, A FREE STATE. Tom Piazza is the author of ten books\, including the novel City Of Refuge\, which won the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction\, and the post-Katrina classic Why New Orleans Matters. Other works include Devil Sent The Rain\, a collection of his essays and journalism\, the Faulkner Society Award-winning novel My Cold War\, and the short-story collection Blues and Trouble\, which won the James Michener Award for Fiction. Tom also wrote for the HBO drama series Treme. \nNo less a literary critic than Bob Dylan has said\, “Tom Piazza’s writing pulsates with nervous electrical tension – reveals the emotions that we can’t define.” A well known writer on American music as well\, Tom won a Grammy Award for his album notes to Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey and is a three-time winner of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for Music Writing. His writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, Bookforum\, The Oxford American\, Columbia Journalism Review\, and many other periodicals. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, he lives in New Orleans.\n \n\nA FREE STATE \nThe year is 1855. Blackface minstrelsy is the most popular form of entertainment in a nation about to be torn apart by the battle over slavery. Henry Sims\, a fugitive slave and a brilliant musician\, has escaped to Philadelphia\, where he earns money living by his wits and performing on the street. He is befriended by James Douglass\, leader of a popular minstrel troupe struggling to compete with dozens of similar ensembles\, who imagines that Henry’s skill and magnetism might restore his troupe’s sagging fortunes. \nThe problem is that black and white performers are not allowed to appear together onstage. Together\, the two concoct a masquerade to protect Henry’s identity\, and Henry creates a sensation in his first appearances with the troupe. Yet even as their plan begins to reverse the troupe’s decline\, a brutal slave hunter named Tull Burton has been employed by Henry’s former master to track down the runaway and retrieve him\, by any means necessary. \nBursting with narrative tension and unforgettable characters\, shot through with unexpected turns and insight\, A FREE STATE is a thrilling reimagining of the American story by a novelist at the height of his powers. \n 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/visiting-writer-tom-piazza/
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SUMMARY:chapbook workshop
DESCRIPTION:for middle school students\nthursdays\, 4 – 5 pm / 4-week program \nmax 15 participants—email Nat at nat@crosstownarts.org to reserve a spot\, or to help out. \na chapbook was an early type of popular literature because it was cheap to produce. still very popular today\, the name commonly refers to small\, paper-covered booklets\, usually printed on a single sheet folded into books of 8\, 12\, 16\, or 24 pages. participants in this workshop will have the opportunity to write poetry\, short fiction\, essays\, and create visual art for their own original chapbooks. we’ll learn elements of layout and page design\, cover design (using artist-designed woodcut blocks)\, and create contents pages and author bio pages to make the chapbooks as professional as possible. at the end of the workshop\, each participant will leave with 5 copies of their original chapbook and one from each of the other participants. \nwe’ll celebrate with a chapbook release party in the Cleveland Street Flea Market on Friday\, October 9.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/chapbook-workshop/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:story booth volunteer interest / training session
DESCRIPTION:if you’re interested in becoming involved with story booth as a teaching artist\, writing mentor\, or volunteer of any kind\, this session will help introduce you to the opportunities story booth has for the upcoming school year\, and will also serve as the “refresher” for current volunteers to get up to speed on exciting new additions to story booth’s programming. we’d love to have you help out over here\, and by the end of this session\, you’ll know everything you need to do just that. \nemail Nat at nat@crosstownarts.org to RSVP or call at 901.573.8444.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/sbvols-fall2015/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150910T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150910T140000
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SUMMARY:working writer's cocktail hour
DESCRIPTION:in the interests of further cultivating and connecting the literary community of Memphis\, story booth is hosting the second edition of Crosstown Arts’ Working Writers’ Cocktail Hour to help usher in the second-annual Mid-South Book Festival. \npresenting authors in town for the festival are welcome\, college and MFA students to early/mid-career/accomplished (meaning published and not-yet-published) writers who live and work in Memphis are welcome too. whether writers of poetry\, fiction\, creative nonfiction\, screenwriting\, playwriting\, journalism\, art writing\, music writing—all are invited to visit story booth for an hour or so to do what it normally takes an expensive retreat to make happen: bring a group of writers together to stand around\, have a drink\, and make connections with other working writers they may or may not have known before. \nwhether or not your day-job is writing makes no difference — if you’re a working writer\, you’re invited. \n \n 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/working-writers-cocktail-0915/
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SUMMARY:Spark: The Child Romantic
DESCRIPTION:Ballet Memphis is hosting a free community conversation about arts education. Spark: The Child Romantic will focus on utilizing the arts to encourage healthy relationships among Memphis youth. Hear about arts programs that are impacting the lives of Memphis’s young people\, from dance and music to literature and visual art. Then join in an open dialogue on improving and growing arts education\, learn creative-thinking and problem-solving techniques for your student at home\, and hear from education and government policymakers on how to advocate for arts-centered learning. \nDon’t have a babysitter? Ballet Memphis will have an arts specialist directing an art-making activity of epic proportion for kids ages 4-14. Refreshments provided. \nThis event is part of Ballet Memphis’ ongoing spark! programming.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/spark-the-child-romantic/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Programs
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150724T130000
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SUMMARY:zine fest
DESCRIPTION:all-ages event showcasing underground zines created by local & inter/national artists.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/zine-fest-2015/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150719
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150725
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SUMMARY:summer workshop: zine & bookmaking
DESCRIPTION:2 – 4:30 pm // ages 10 – 14 \nthis workshop gives participants the chance to write and self-publish an original “zine\,” and then also to collaborate on an original story to be professionally published into a finished book. both of these projects allow participants to develop their creative writing and understand the elements of DIY and professional publishing\, and each participant will leave with a finished zine and book in hand.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/story-booth-summer-workshop-bookmaking/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Programs
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150718T110000
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SUMMARY:Zine-Making Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Artists! Writers! Photographers! \nYou are cordially invited to attend a FREE zine-making workshop\, where you can connect with other artists in the area and work on your own zine in a positive and welcoming environment. \n***Materials provided*** \n\nDon’t know what a zine is? Never made a zine of your own? No problem! Brush up on a little zine history and learn some DIY techniques so you can get started on a zine of your very own! \nParticipants and other local zine-sters are invited to display and sell their final works at the Zine Fest Fair on Friday\, July 24th from 4-6 PM. Please contact Erica Qualy (ericaqualy@yahoo.com) to reserve a table space. \nDeadline for submissions is July 22nd\, 2015 \nSubmissions should be sent to\nStory Booth\n422 N. Cleveland St.\nMemphis\, TN 38104
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/zine-making-workshop/
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150708T160000
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SUMMARY:Shoot & Splice: Music in Film
DESCRIPTION:Join Indie Memphis & Crosstown Arts for a special lyrical edition of Shoot & Splice. Studio/music label owner\, Ward Archer\, and film composers\, Jonathan Kirkscey and Ted Speaker\, will be on hand to discuss their process for composing music for film\, recording techniques\, the important intricacies of song selection\, being a music supervisor and all things music and film. \nShoot & Splice is made possible with the support of ArtsMemphis and FirstTennessee Foundation | ArtsFirst.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/shoot-splice-music-in-film/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Programs
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150705
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150711
DTSTAMP:20260425T013857
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SUMMARY:story booth summer workshop: super 8 film
DESCRIPTION:2 – 4:30 pm // ages 10 – 14 \nthis workshop gives participants the chance to script\, shoot\, splice\, and screen their own independent\, super 8 films in one week. we’ll premiere all films at a mini-film festival on the last Friday of the workshop. taught by Crosstown Arts’ professional videographer\, Justin Thompson.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/story-booth-summer-workshop-super-8-film/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150623T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150623T140000
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SUMMARY:working writers' cocktail hour
DESCRIPTION:in the interests of further cultivating and connecting the literary community of Memphis\, story booth is excited to host Crosstown Arts’ first working writers’ cocktail hour. \nMFA students to early/mid-career/accomplished writers (meaning published and not-yet-published)—whether they be writers of poetry\, fiction\, creative nonfiction\, screenwriting\, playwriting\, journalism\, art writing—are all welcome here for an hour or so to do what it normally takes an expensive retreat to make happen: bring a group of writers together to stand around\, have a drink\, and make connections with other working writers they may or may not have known before. \nwhether or not your day-job is writing makes no difference — if you’re a working writer\, you’re invited.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/working-writers-cocktail-hour/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150627
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SUMMARY:story booth summer workshop: flight plan
DESCRIPTION:2 – 4:30 pm // ages 10 – 14 \nthis experimental plane- and glider-building workshop helps students get a hands-on understanding of the forces of lift\, weight\, and drag.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/story-booth-summer-workshop-flight-plan/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150620T050000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150620T130000
DTSTAMP:20260425T013857
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SUMMARY:the pinch journal summer workshop series: creative nonfiction
DESCRIPTION:story booth is proud to host its first incarnation of adult literary programming\, three one-day workshops offered by University of Memphis MFA candidates and editors of The Pinch Literary Journal. \nFrom The Pinch:\nIf you are a fan of the Pinch\, you know that we pride ourselves on selecting and publishing diverse poetry\, fiction\, and creative non-fiction. We are also a hardworking staff of graduate students in the English Department at the University of Memphis. We take and teach classes in creative writing at the university and we work hard for the Pinch. We write\, we publish\, we are the people we want to see in literary journals. We’d like to share some of that experience with the creative community in Memphis. We’ve got a plan. It’s a good one. Won’t you join us? \nCost to Attend:\nOne Workshop: $25\nTwo Workshops: $40\nThree Workshops: $65
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/pinch-workshop-creative-nonfiction/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:the pinch journal summer workshop series: fiction
DESCRIPTION:story booth is proud to host its first incarnation of adult literary programming\, three one-day workshops offered by University of Memphis MFA candidates and editors of The Pinch Literary Journal. \nFrom The Pinch:\nIf you are a fan of the Pinch\, you know that we pride ourselves on selecting and publishing diverse poetry\, fiction\, and creative non-fiction. We are also a hardworking staff of graduate students in the English Department at the University of Memphis. We take and teach classes in creative writing at the university and we work hard for the Pinch. We write\, we publish\, we are the people we want to see in literary journals. We’d like to share some of that experience with the creative community in Memphis. We’ve got a plan. It’s a good one. Won’t you join us? \nCost to Attend:\nOne Workshop: $25\nTwo Workshops: $40\nThree Workshops: $65
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/pinch-workshop-fiction/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:story booth theatre production workshop
DESCRIPTION:ages 10 – 14 \nthis workshop gives participants the chance to write\, act\, and perform an original play before an audience—all in one week. if you’re interested in writing for stage\, page\, or screen\, or are interested in acting or set design\, this workshop is for you. taught by professional playwright and actress Jazmin Miller \n 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/story-booth-theatre-production-workshop/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Programs
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SUMMARY:the pinch journal summer workshop series: poetry
DESCRIPTION:story booth is proud to host its first incarnation of adult literary programming\, three one-day workshops offered by University of Memphis MFA candidates and editors of The Pinch Literary Journal. \nFrom The Pinch:\nIf you are a fan of the Pinch\, you know that we pride ourselves on selecting and publishing diverse poetry\, fiction\, and creative non-fiction. We are also a hardworking staff of graduate students in the English Department at the University of Memphis. We take and teach classes in creative writing at the university and we work hard for the Pinch. We write\, we publish\, we are the people we want to see in literary journals. We’d like to share some of that experience with the creative community in Memphis. We’ve got a plan. It’s a good one. Won’t you join us? \nCost to Attend:\nOne Workshop: $25\nTwo Workshops: $40\nThree Workshops: $65
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/pinch-workshop-poetry/
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SUMMARY:Engineering the Ridiculous: Rube Goldberg Project
DESCRIPTION:During the summer of 2015\, story booth and artist Yvonne Bobo hosted and facilitated a workshop to create a Rube Goldberg Machine: a contraption\, invention\, device or apparatus that is a machine deliberately over-engineered to perform a very simple task in a very complicated fashion\, including a chain reaction. This workshop was a hands-on opportunity for young people to use science\, technology\, engineering\, art and mathematics to create an interactive sculpture on display at an opening exhibition for the entire community to celebrate. At the opening exhibition\, all participants were officially recognized and certified for their accomplishments in “Engineering the Ridiculous.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/engineering-the-ridiculous-rube-goldberg-project/
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SUMMARY:Think Tank Series: Collective Consciousness
DESCRIPTION:The Collective invites you to join them for a discussion about how different ways of creating or being exposed to art can uplift a community\, create support from within\, and provide solutions.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/think-tank-collective-consciousness/
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SUMMARY:Impossible Language
DESCRIPTION:This installment of Impossible Language features readings by Angie Macri\, John Reed\, and Sandy Longhorn. \nBecome better acquainted with this ongoing poetry reading series by following here: Twitter @impossiblelang\, Facebook or Tumblr.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/impossible-language-0415/
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SUMMARY:Revolutionary Writers Reading
DESCRIPTION:Talented sixth grade authors from Soulsville Charter School share their original poetry and prose. \n 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/revolutionary-writers-reading/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Delta Jewels: Visiting Artist\, Alysia Burton Steele
DESCRIPTION:Event Schedule\n6 pm: Fellowship Hour at story booth (438 N. Cleveland)\n6 pm: Exhibition in the Gallery (422 N. Cleveland)\n7- 9 pm: Program & Book-signing in the Gallery \nCrosstown Arts and The Booksellers at Laurelwood welcome photojournalist Alysia Burton Steele to Memphis to celebrate the publication of Delta Jewels\, her collection of portraits and oral histories of church mothers of the Mississippi Delta. \nThe event is free and open to the public and will include a program and book-signing with the artist\, an art exhibition of photo prints from the book\, live choir music\, food & drinks. Several of the church mothers featured in the book will also be present. \nInspired by memories of her beloved grandmother\, photographer and author Alysia Burton Steele–picture editor on a Pulitzer Prize-winning team–combines heart-wrenching narrative with poignant photographs of more than 50 female church elders in the Mississippi Delta. \nThese ordinary women lived extraordinary lives under the harshest conditions of the Jim Crow era and during the courageous changes of the Civil Rights Movement. With the help of local pastors\, Steele recorded these living witnesses to history and folk ways\, and shares the significance of being a Black woman–child\, daughter\, sister\, wife\, mother\, and grandmother in Mississippi–a Jewel of the Delta. From the stand Mrs. Tennie Self took for her marriage to be acknowledged in the phone book\, to the life-threatening sacrifice required to vote for the first time\, these 50 inspiring portraits are the faces of love and triumph that will teach readers faith and courage in difficult times. \n\nAlysia Burton Steele has been a photographer for over 25 years and currently teaches photojournalism\, layout and design\, multimedia\, and journalism writing at the University of Mississippi.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/delta-jewels/
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SUMMARY:Visiting Writer Jamie Kornegay
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our latest collaboration with The Booksellers at Laurelwood as we welcome Jamie Kornegay to Memphis to read from and sign his first novel\, SOIL. Jamie is also the owner of Turnrow Book Co.\, in Greenwood\, MS\, so please help us celebrate this writer who daily champions other writers in his work as an independent bookseller.With elements of rural noir\, dark comedy and domestic dysfunction\, SOIL – published by Simon & Schuster – is a modern tragedy that pays homage to Mississippi’s great literary tradition — from William Faulkner to Larry Brown and Barry Hannah — and adds a manic dose of Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment for good measure. \nDistrustful of modern society\, environmental scientist Jay Mize moves his family off the grid to a stretch of riverbottom farmland in the Mississippi hills\, where he hopes to position himself at the forefront of a revolution in agriculture. After suffering drought\, flood\, pestilence and family turmoil\, Jay uncovers a dead body in his water-logged field. Rather than alert the authorities\, he mounts a paranoid cover-up\, which invites more unwanted trouble to his sacred homestead. \nBeset by a growing madness\, Jay is pitted against his estranged wife\, who has become unhinged by her own trials\, and a local deputy\, whose interest in the family is not strictly in the pursuit of justice. Through a maze of misperceptions and personal obsessions\, these characters endeavor — however clumsily — to uphold their own sense of honor as they tumble toward a showdown in the treacherous mudflats.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/visiting-writer-jamie-kornegay/
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SUMMARY:Visiting Writer Amy Greene
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Booksellers at Laurelwood and Crosstown Arts \nReading and discussion with the author and WKNO’s Darel Snodgrass\nFree admission and refreshments \nAuthor’s website \nReviews of “Long Man” \n“The Tennessee Valley Authority was designed to help modernize the state during the Great Depression\, but [it] only spells destruction for the town of Yuneetah. Greene’s excellent second novel focuses on the holdouts who refuse to leave\, chief among them a husband and wife [whose] 3-year-old daughter goes missing. The lead suspect in her disappearance is a one-eyed Yuneetah native who’s spent much of his life as a drifter connected to violent protests against [the] government. Greene’s [prose] is sinuous and tonally mythic; Gracie’s disappearance\, alongside Amos’ cat-and-mouse game with authorities\, gives the novel a welcome propulsion. Long Man fully inhabits the ironies inherent in destroying a place in the name of progress . . . A smart and moody historical novel that evokes the best widescreen Southern literature.” —Kirkus (starred review)\n\n“Haunting . . . Long Man revisits blue-collar Appalachia with the same lyricism Greene brought to her magnificent first novel\, Bloodroot . . . With searing eloquence\, she seems to channel the frustrations of generations of rural poor in this stark indictment of a government hell-bent on destroying a long-standing community. Her stunning insight into a proud and insular people is voiced with cold clarity and burning anger.” —Joanne Wilkinson\, Booklist (starred review)\n\n“Unforgettable. Like a classical myth\, Greene’s second novel\, set in the summer of 1936\, transforms a period of cataclysmic history into a gorgeous\, tragic tale filled with heroes and heroines . . . Greene’s enormous talent animates the voices and landscape of East Tennessee so vividly\, and creates such exquisite tension\, that the reader is left devastated.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)\n\n“A gem. Long Man is so palpably real that I feel I’ve spent the last few days actually living in Greene’s corner of Depression-era Tennessee. Only a handful of writers can bring a place to life with this much texture\, and bring characters to life in such a visceral manner. These people and this place will live on in my imagination for the rest of my life. Greene is a special writer\, and Long Man is a special book—a beautiful piece of work. How I long for more novels like hers.” —Steve Yarbrough\, author of Prisoners of War and The Realm of Last Chances
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/visiting-writer-amy-greene/
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SUMMARY:Visiting Writer Alan Lightman
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Burke’s Book Store and Crosstown Arts\n  \nMr. Lightman will be reading from and signing copies of his memoir\, Screening Room: Family Pictures ($25.95 hardcover\, Pantheon Books)  \nA Q & A session will be moderated by Memphis historian and author Wayne Dowdy \nFrom the acclaimed author of the international best seller Einstein’s Dreams\, here is a stunning\, lyrical memoir of Memphis from the 1930s through the 1960s that includes the early days of the movies and a powerful grandfather whose ghost remains an ever-present force in the lives of his descendants. Alan Lightman’s grandfather M.A. Lightman was the family’s undisputed patriarch: it was his movie theater empire that catapulted the Lightmans to prominence in the South\, his fearless success that both galvanized and paralyzed his children and grandchildren. In this moving\, impressionistic memoir\, the author chronicles his return to Memphis in an attempt to understand the origins he so eagerly left behind forty years earlier. As aging uncles and aunts begin telling family stories\, Lightman rediscovers his southern roots and slowly recognizes the errors in his perceptions of both his grandfather and his father\, who was himself crushed by M.A. The result is an unforgettable family saga that extends from 1880 to the present\, set against a throbbing century of Memphis–the rhythm and blues\, the barbecue and pecan pie\, the segregated society–and including personal encounters with Elvis\, Martin Luther King Jr.\, and E. H. “Boss” Crump. At the heart of it all is a family haunted by the memory of its domineering patriarch and the author’s struggle to understand his conflicted loyalties. \n2015 marks the 100th anniversary of Malco Theatres\, created by Lightman’s grandfatther in 1915. Available for purchase at this event will be the commemorative Memphis Heritage 2015 calendar\, which showcases vintage photographs of Malco movie marquees\, theater lobbies and other images from decades past. \nAlan Lightman is the author of several novels\, including Einstein’s Dreams\, a New York Times and international bestseller\, and The Diagnosis\, a finalist for the 2000 National Book Award. He is also the author of several collections of essays and numerous books on science. His work has appeared in the Atlantic\, Granta\, The New Yorker\, the New York Review of Books\, and Nature\, among many other publications. A theoretical physicist as well as a writer\, he has served on the faculties of Harvard and MIT\, where he was the first person to receive a dual faculty appointment in science and the humanities. He lives in the Boston area.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/visiting-writer-alan-lightman/
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SUMMARY:Visting Writer Jacqueline Woodson
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at story booth on Monday\, Oct. 13\, from 3 to 5 to welcome Crosstown Arts’ latest visiting writer\, Jacqueline Woodson\, as she reads from and discusses her National Book Award-nominated memoir in verse\, “Brown Girl Dreaming.” Thanks to The Booksellers at Laurelwood for affording us this rare opportunity to let our young writers interact with a professional writer of such high acclaim. All ages welcome for this one. \nJacqueline Woodson won the National Book Award after her visit to Crosstown Arts!
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/visting-writer-jacqueline-woodson/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mid-South Book Festival
DESCRIPTION:presented by Literacy Mid-South\nEvents at story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland \n\nMaking Memphis\nThursday\, September 25\, 6 pm\nstory booth\, 438 N. Cleveland\, free admission\nFestival kick-off with authors Dan Conaway\, Willy Bearden\, and Corey Mesler\, with moderator Harry Freeman from WEVL.  \nImpossible Language \nFriday\, September 26\, 8 pm\, readings begin at 8:30\nstory booth\, 438 N. Cleveland\, free admission\nFall premiere of poetry reading series created and hosted by poet Ashley Roach-Freiman.  \nLearn more about the festival and these events
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/mid-south-book-festival/
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SUMMARY:Visiting Writer: John Brandon
DESCRIPTION:Reading and booksigning of Further Joy
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/visiting-writer-john-brandon/
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