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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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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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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150711
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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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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/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150621
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150627
DTSTAMP:20260427T151430
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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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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150613T050000
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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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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150613
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150606T050000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150606T130000
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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/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150601T030000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150630T120000
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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/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150430T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150430T150000
DTSTAMP:20260427T151430
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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/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150418T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150418T160000
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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/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150417T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150417T150000
DTSTAMP:20260427T151430
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150409T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150409T160000
DTSTAMP:20260427T151430
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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/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Programs
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150304T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150304T140000
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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.
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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/
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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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SUMMARY:Visiting Writer Holly George-Warren
DESCRIPTION:An event to celebrate the release of\nA Man Called Destruction: The Life and Music of Alex Chilton\nThe first biography of the influential musician and forebear of the indie-rock scene\nby Holly George-Warren\npresented by Crosstown Arts and The Booksellers at Laurelwood \n\n\nConversation with the author and Andria Lisle at 7 pm\nLive performance by Loveland Duren at 8 pm\n(Vicki Loveland and Van Duren)\nOpening Act: Ross Johnson and the Klitz\nExhibit by Vincent Astor and more\nFree admission
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/visiting-writer-holly-george-warren/
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SUMMARY:Visiting Writer Bill Cotter & The Grown Up Lady Story Company
DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts and The Booksellers at Laurelwood present visiting writer Bill Cotter and The Grown Up Lady Story Company \nThe author will read from his most recent novel “The Parallel Apartments” \n\n\nJustine Moppett is 34\, pregnant\, and fleeing an abusive relationship in New York to dig up an even more traumatic childhood in Austin. Waiting for her there is a cast of more than a dozen misfits — a hemophobic aspiring serial killer\, a deranged soprano opera singer\, a debt-addicted entrepreneur-cum-madam\, a matchmaking hermaphrodite — each hurtling toward their own calamities\, and\, ultimately\, toward each other. A Texan Gabriel Garcia Marquez who writes tragicomic twists reminiscent of John Kennedy Toole\, Bill Cotter produces some of the most visceral\, absurd\, and downright hilarious sentences to be found in fiction today. “The Parallel Apartments” is a bold leap forward for a writer whose protean talents\, whose sheer exuberance for language and what a novel can do\, marks him as one of the most exciting stylists in America.Bill Cotter was born in Dallas in 1964 and has worked as an antiquarian book dealer and restorer since 2000. He lives in Austin\, TX\, with the storyteller Annie La Ganga. His first novel was “Fever Chart.” \n\n\n\nhttp://www.grownupladystorycompany.com/
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/visiting-writer-bill-cotter-the-grown-up-lady-story-company/
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SUMMARY:Visiting Writer James Scott
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a reading of “The Kept” and conversation with the writer and WKNO’s Justin Willingham \nBooksigning to follow\nFree admission \nRecent review in the New York Times \n“James Scott has written a riveting and memorable debut novel.” \n—Tom Perrotta\, author of “Little Children” and “Election” \n“Scott is both compassionate moralist and master storyteller in this outstanding debut.” \n—Kirkus\, ★ starred review \n“By the end of the book\, you’ll be convinced that [Scott] can do just about anything.” \n—Kevin Wilson\, author of “The Family Fang” \nIn the winter of 1897\, Elspeth Howell treks across miles of snow and ice to the isolated farmstead in upstate New York where she and her husband have raised their five children. Her midwife’s salary is tucked into the toes of her boots\, and her pack is full of gifts for her family. But as she crests the final hill\, and sees her darkened house and a smokeless chimney\, immediately she knows that an unthinkable crime has destroyed the life she so carefully built. Her lone comfort is her twelve-year-old son\, Caleb\, who joins her in mourning the tragedy and planning its reprisal. Their long journey leads them to a rough-hewn lake town\, defined by the violence both of its landscape and of its inhabitants. There Caleb is forced into a brutal adulthood\, as he slowly discovers truths about his family he never suspected\, and Elspeth must confront the terrible urges and unceasing temptations that have haunted her for years. Throughout it all\, the love between mother and son serves as the only shield against a merciless world.                          \nWKNO’s Book Club Pick \n \n 
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SUMMARY:Visiting Artist Margaret Wrinkle
DESCRIPTION:Reading and Discussion of Wash: a novel with award-winning author Margaret Wrinkle\, accompanied by an exhibition of photography by the artist and a reception \n  \nSponsored by V02 Networx\nWash\, written by Margaret Wrinkle\, reexamines slavery in ways that challenge contemporary assumptions about race\, history and power as it carries the reader from the American South to West Africa and deep into the ancestral stories that reside in the soul. \nCrosstown Arts will host Margaret Wrinkle on the evening of Tuesday\, October 15\, for a reading of Wash\, followed by a conversation between the artist and Ladrica Menson-Furr (Director of African and African American Studies at the University of Memphis).  The reading will be accompanied by an installation of Wrinkle’s photography and a reception. A booksigning will follow the discussion. \nPublished by Grove/Atlantic and accompanied by an exhibition of photographs\, Wash has been short listed for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize and for the Crook’s Corner Prize for exceptional debut novels set in the American South. \nBorn and raised in Birmingham\, Alabama\, Margaret Wrinkle is a writer\, filmmaker\, educator and visual artist.  Her award-winning documentary\,broken\ground\, about the racial divide in her historically conflicted hometown\, was featured on NPR’s Morning Edition and was a winner of the National Council on Foundations’ Film Festival. \nCopies of Wash will be for sale. \nLearn more at margaretwrinkle.com \nPress and Praise:\n \n\n“Wrinkle’s tender first novel…is both redemptive and affirming.”\nThe New York Times Editor’s Choice  (pdf) \n“A masterly literary work….This debut occasions celebration. Haunting\, tender and superbly measured\, Wash is both redemptive and affirming.”\nThe New York Times Book Review  (pdf) \n\n“The voices of the past cannot speak for themselves and must rely on the artists of the future to honor them. It’s a profound responsibility and one that Margaret Wrinkle meets in her brilliant novel\, Wash.”\nThe Wall Street Journal  (pdf) \n“Never has a fictionalized window into the relationship between slave and master opened onto such believable territory….Wash unfolds like a dreamy\, impressionistic landscape….[A] luminous book.”\nThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution  (pdf) \n“Books like William Styron’s The Confessions of Nat Turner\, Toni Morrison’s Beloved\, Edward P. Jones’ The Known World\, and Russell Banks’ Cloudsplitter form a kind of Truth and Reconciliation Commission of their own. Add Margaret Wrinkle’s Wash to that illustrious company.”\nThe Dallas Morning News  (pdf)\n \n“…Wash achieves something extraordinary: a full-fledged confrontation with one of the most difficult aspects of our nation’s history… Wrinkle has given us an honest and important expression of hope… a firm foothold that leads in the direction of truth and reconciliation. We would do well to take this step.”\nThe Charleston Post and Courier  (pdf) \n“A marvel. By turns grim and lyrical\, heart-wrenching and hopeful.”\nPeople (4 stars; a People Pick) (pdf) \n  \n 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/visiting-artist-margaret-wrinkle/
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