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VIRTUAL AUTHOR
SEASON • 2021
NATIONAL
WRITERS SERIES
A year-round book festival
Dwight Garner | Alan Lightman | Martha Teichner | Diane Rehm
Imbolo Mbue | Shelley Pearsall | Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Chris Bohjalian | Rochelle Riley | Mary Doria Russell
WELCOME TO THE NWS 2021 VIRTUAL AUTHOR SEASON
I
was just cross-country skiing with fact, he even led us most of the way Yaa nodded her head, laughing.
Tom, a good friend and a National there. Man, Traverse City people are Surprisingly, we actually
Writers Series fan who, in non- nice. So, Tom, this letter is my attempt have more eyes on these “I remember that sparkle in her
Pandemic times, has attended a lot to persuade you to Zoom in. eyes that reveals she is truly an
virtual events than we
of our author events. We were out on artistic genius.”
Riley’s Trail near the Vasa single track, First, some history. did with our live events.
and coming back, we chose a wrong These virtual events (in which no one
turn and got lost. To take my mind As you know, we hosted our last messages coming in. Now we tell can see you) are an excellent option
off the waning sun and the prospect live event at the City Opera House authors to keep their phones off for those who have gotten perhaps
of humbly calling my husband to in March and switched over to virtual, and their zoom link handy in case a little too comfortable during the
let him know I was trying to pick my Zoom events pretty quickly. In April of freezing. pandemic in which dressing up and
way home in the dark, I struck up a to be exact, and that first event was putting on make-up feel somehow
conversation. a bit of a hot mess, at least in the first Yep, we’ve learned a lot with Zoom. like too much work. Yay! No one
five minutes. The author froze up a We know that people don’t like can see you. So relax, sip a glass of
“So, Tom, have you been watching nd we had to wait a few minutes looking at the same two faces for a wine (or tea) and enjoy—maybe even
any of our virtual author events?” for her to get back “on” while the complete hour, so we fill in with lots of wander off if need be!
guest host Rochelle Riley flashed personal photos and video whenever
“No, I haven’t,” he said. “I don’t like to her beautiful smile and quickly we can. And we take advantage of the Surprisingly, we actually have more
Zoom.” improvised once she realized it was fact that anyone can watch no matter eyes on these virtual events than
going to take the author more than where in the world they are. When we did with our live events. A total
“Not even one? Why not?” I asked, a few moments to return. author Yaa Gyasi (The Transcendent of 5800 people linked into our
maybe a tad bluntly. Kingdom) was zooming in from New 16 virtual events… and we have
Once she got back on, all was still York City, for example, her parents thousands of viewers and listeners
Before he could respond, a kind not well. The interview was fun and showed up from Huntsville, Alabama. who are watching or listening to the
person on a fat-tire bike came across funny, but we kept hearing a random We figured out how to bring them in recordings. Interlochen Public Radio
our path and explained how we could beep—I think it might have been the spotlight so everyone could see and other NPR affiliates also
get back to the parking lot—and, in someone’s phone calls or maybe them. The guest host asked her mom, re-broadcast our shows.
Sophia, if she had a question for Yaa.
So, if you’re like Tom, who has been
OUR MISSION
“Yes—when is she coming down avoiding Zoom since the pandemic
here? Baby, when are you coming started, I say this: It’s not so bad. In
to Huntsville?” fact, it’s pretty darn entertaining.
Good enough that we’re considering
Yaa laughed. continuing with our virtual events
The National Writers once we’re back at the City Opera
“You need to ask the pandemic, I House, hopefully this summer!
Series of Traverse City think, but as soon as we can.”
Thanks to all of you who have so
is a nonprofit Her father Kwaku, a professor of generously donated and allowed us
organization dedicated French at the University of Alabama, to continue the conversation!
didn’t say a word, but beamed
to holding great with pride.
conversations with
Her former high school teacher Janice
today’s best authors Vaughn also made an appearance,
saying how proud she was.
and building the
“I remember her sitting in that 11
reading and writing
AP classroom and I remember Yaa ANNE STANTON
skills of youth. kicking off her shoes at her desk. Co-founder and Executive Director
Do you remember that Yaa?” National Writers Series
RAISING WRITERS
Honing the skills of young,
passionate readers and writers
The Writers Series uses proceeds from its author events
to help support its several Raising Writers programs
FRONT STREET WRITERS
C reated in 2012, Front Street
CREATIVE WRITING CLASSES
T
Writers is a magnet program for
his year we are teaching youth classes virtually. Coming soon are
area high school students passionate
about writing. This intensive writers’ classes on writing children’s books and pitching a magazing article.
workshop is taught at the Career- We’re also offering a first-ever international cooking class for young children
Tech Center, drawing students from a) because it’s fun and useful and b) because it will help strengthen reading
the five-county area. and math skills along with enhancing knowledge of world cultures. See our
website for more information.
Authors Bob Giles, Christopher
Haugh and Jordan Blashek virtually
visited the classroom this past fall.
This spring, Chasten Buttigieg, Karla published in the annual NWS
Cornejo Villavicencio, Kate Walbert Literary Journal. FSW students
and children’s author Shelley Pearsall have won dozens of awards
are planning Zoom visits. from Scholastic, Poets Out Loud,
Poets’ Night Out, and the Young
The FSW students’ best work is Playwrights Festival.
COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS
In partnership with the Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation,
NWS has awarded 34 students with $52,000 in scholarship money. There
are four $1,000 scholarships available: journalism, creative nonfiction, Book Handout Day at Horizon Books. A dedicated group of volunteers coordinated the
curbside book handout to each team's coach.
short story and playwrighting. All students with permanent addresses in
Antrim, Benzie, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska and Leelanau counties are eligible. BATTLE OF THE BOOKS
G
Deadline for submissions is March 1st. For more information go to the NWS
uess what? When kids are excited about
or GTRCF websites.
reading, they read more, and Battle of
the Books Grand Traverse is proof. Launched
in 2016, Battle of the Books is a free, book-
based competition. Dozens of teams read books
provided by NWS and then compete before
judges to show what they know. This program
has become wildly popular, filling up last year
with 280 students in a matter of hours.
This year, Battle of the Books has gone virtual, and we have increased the
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2020 SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS number of teams from 48 to 63 teams and 355 students. It’s a huge endeavor,
ERIN EVANS OLIVIA ATHENA MCKENNA made possible with a partnership with the Traverse Area District Library, dedicated
Senior - Bellaire JOHNSON GILLESPIE LANDRUM
High School Senior - Interlochen
volunteers, and the leadership of program coordinator Marcy Lindberg.
Senior - St. Francis Junior - Grand
Leslie Lee Center for the Arts High School Traverse Academy
Nonfiction Judith Lang
The championship battle will take place on March 14, with two of the 63 teams
Robert & Marcy William R.
Award Creative Branski Poetry Montgomery facing off. We are thrilled to have award-winning author Shelley Pearsall as the
Writing Award Award Fiction Award featured guest.
small part of “the material I’ve hoarded” a trumpet,’ as [Ralph Waldo] Emerson
JANUARY 14, 7PM • VIRTUAL WINTER/SPRING SEASON and has arranged them “by feel,” not put it, and bits of scavenged wisdom
category. And the book is, he says with from my life as a reader. Yea, for I am an
DWIGHT GARNER glee, a bit coarse, with more blasphemy underliner, a destroyer of books, and
than the usual books of quotations. maybe you are, too.’”
“An uncommon commonplace
book from a wide-ranging reader… The book is a rollicking, irreverent, GUEST HOST DOUG STANTON
S
A diverting trove of witty remarks.” amazingly alive selection of unforget- tanton is the
~ Kirkus Reviews table moments from forty years of #1 New York
wide and deep reading. Garner’s Times bestselling
D wight Garner, Quotations is like no commonplace author of In
a book critic book you’ll ever read. Harm’s Way,
with the New York 12 Strong and
Times, is sharing Garner is an editor for the New The Odyssey of Echo
other writers’ York Times Book Review. His essays Company. His writing has appeared
words in his new and criticism have appeared in The in Esquire, The New York Times,
book, “Garner’s New Republic, Harper’s, Slate and TIME, the Washington Post, and other
Quotations: A elsewhere. He is a founding editor national publications where he has
Modern Miscellany.” of Salon. been a contributing editor. Stanton
conversations,” he writes in the attended Interlochen Arts Academy,
Garner is a no-holds barred quote While still a student at Middlebury
foreword. “Lines that made me sit up Hampshire College, and received
collector, looking for the zing and College, Garner wrote book criticism
in my seat; lines that jolted me awake. an MFA from the Writers’ Workshop
sting. Like this one… for The Village Voice, music and theater
About once a year, I’ll say something at the University of Iowa. An NWS
“I have no enemies. But my friends criticism and was a stringer for the
I think is worthy of inclusion. I mostly co-founder, he lives in Traverse City,
don’t like me.” ~ Poet Philip Larkin New York Times. He also is the author
end up deleting those entries.” his hometown.
He calls this new collection selections of Read Me: A Century of Classic
from his “commonplace book.” “It’s He’s admittedly not usually a big fan of American Book Advertisements. He GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY
where I write down favorite sentences books of quotations, but says Garner’s began keeping his commonplace book
Event Underwriter:
from novels, stories, poems and songs, Quotations “is an attempt to break with while still in high school. “Into it I’ve
A Generous Friend of NWS
from plays and movies, from overheard the convention.” He has included just a poured verbal delicacies, ‘the blast of
view the world. GUEST HOST KALYANEE MAM
U
JANUARY 21, 7PM • VIRTUAL WINTER/SPRING SEASON prooted by
Three Flames, Lightman’s first work war from
ALAN LIGHTMAN of fiction in seven years, portrays her homeland
the struggles of one Cambodian in Cambodia,
“Lightman’s best book since
farming family against the extreme Mam’s longing
Einstein’s Dreams . . . an important to "daohsray"
patriarchal attitudes of their society
story of global women’s rights.” and a cruel and dictatorial father. The or unravel what
~ Annie Proulx tale is set in a rural community that is home means, has led her to work on
slowly being exposed to the modern films about war and refugees, about
world and its values. It will be up families threatened and displaced by
A lan Lightman is to Sreypov, the youngest daughter, the destruction of their land and their
a novelist, to bravely challenge her father cultures. She is grateful to her mother
essayist, physicist, and strive for a better future. Three and her family for teaching her that
and educator. Flames is a vivid story of one family’s home lies in the jewels and wisdom
Currently, he is yearning for freedom and of a young of our ancestors. She now makes her
Professor of the girl’s courage to face down tradition. home on the land of the Pomo and
Practice of the Coastal Miwok with her beloved David
Humanities at the Three Flames grows directly from Mendez.
Massachusetts Institute of Lightman’s work as the founder GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY
Technology (MIT). of the Harpswell Foundation, a Literary Sponsors:
nonprofit organization whose mission
Northwestern Michigan College -
As both a distinguished physicist and humanities. He has lectured at more is to advance a new generation of
Extended Educational Services;
an accomplished novelist, Lightman is than 100 universities nationwide female leaders in Cambodia and all
one of only a small number of people about the similarities and differences of Southeast Asia. Red Dirt Road
who straddle the sciences and the in the ways that scientists and artists
FEBRUARY 4, 7PM • VIRTUAL WINTER/SPRING SEASON
RAISING THE LITERARY BAR SINCE 2010
MARTHA TEICHNER
• NWS broadcasts author events
“.. [A]n exquisite tale about on IPR, Community Access
heartbreak and healing. ” Television, YouTube, and makes
them available to public radio
~ Jeannette Walls, bestselling
stations around the country. The
author of The Glass Castle
NWS virtual events are all avail-
able on our website
T raverse City native
Martha Teichner,
now a correspondent
• More than 69,000 people have
attended 181 events since
we started. Traverse Heights poetry workshop
for “CBS Sunday
Morning,” brings her • Awarded $52,000 in scholar-
heartwarming book, ships to 34 collegebound
When Harry Met Minnie, students.
to the National Writers
• We’ve hosted more than 180
Series Feb. 4. authors for onstage conversa-
tions over the past 10 years.
A chance encounter at the Union
Square Farmer’s Market changed • Our Front Street Writers
Emmy Awards and five James Beard
Teichner’s world forever. As fate would program, in partnership with
Foundation Awards. Teichner was
have it, her friend knew someone dying Traverse Bay Area ISD and held
also part of the team coverage of at the Career-Tech Center, draws Bestselling author Marie Benedict meets with
from the fall-out radiation of 9/11 and
the Newtown, Conn., elementary students from a five-county area FSW students
was desperate to find a new home for
school shooting which earned CBS who love to learn about writing.
Harry, a bull terrier — the same breed
News a 2014 duPont-Columbia
as Teichner’s dear Minnie. Would • Sixty-three teams are engaged
Award. Teichner was born in Traverse
Teichner consider giving Harry a loving in a creative and fun Battle of
City and graduated from Wellesley
new home? the Books this year. This year
College in 1969 with a bachelor’s 355 students will be quizzed on
In short order, boy dog meets girl dog. degree in economics. She attended nine books.
But there is so much more to this book. the University of Chicago’s Graduate
School of Business Administration. She • Each spring, we’ve hosted
After Teichner agrees to meet Harry
lives in New York City. poetry workshops at Traverse
and his owner Carol, what begins as a Heights and Blair Elementary
transaction involving a dog becomes schools. This year, the poetry
GUEST HOST CYNTHIA CANTY
C
a deep and meaningful friendship workshops will be held
anty was the
between two women with complicated virtually and offered to all area Battle of the Books 2020 team finalist
host of students.
lives and a love of bull terriers in
Stateside on
common. Through the heartbreak
Michigan Radio • NWS creates and promotes
and grief of Carol’s illness, the bond youth creative writing
since the show
that develops changes Teichner’s life, classes in partnership with
began in 2012,
Carol’s life, Minnie’s life, Harry’s life; it Northwestern Michigan College.
retiring in 2019. A lifelong resident
changes Carol’s death as well.
of metro Detroit, she has been a • Publishes studentwritingof
In this touching narrative, Teichner television news anchor, producer Front Street Writers,Blair
considers the ways our stories are and reporter. Her reporting and and Traverse Heights poetry
writing have earned her many awards, workshops, and NMC creative
shaped by the people we meet, and the
including an Emmy and honors writing classes in the annual
profound love we can find by opening NWS Literary Journal.
our hearts to unexpected encounters. from the Michigan Association of
Broadcasters, the Associated Press and
• Co-founder Doug Stanton is the
Martha Teichner has been a correspon- the Detroit Press Club. 2020 Stephen E. Ambrose Oral Margaret Atwood signing books after her 2019
dent for “CBS Sunday Morning” History Award winner and past author event
since December 1993. Since joining Michiganian of the Year.
GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY
CBS News in 1977, Teichner has
Event Underwriters: • Traverse City has been a “Book City” since 2015.
earned multiple national awards for
Al & Susan Cogswell
her original reporting, including 11
dying. The book presents the fervent Washington, D.C. In 2014, President
FEBRUARY 25, 7PM • VIRTUAL WINTER/SPRING SEASON arguments — both for and against — Barack Obama presented Rehm with
that are propelling the current debates the National Humanities Medal. She
DIANE REHM across the nation about whether to
adopt laws allowing those who are
lives in Washington, D.C.
“A book of candor and compassion,
dying to put an end to their suffering. GUEST HOST CYNTHIA CANTY
addressing the cause of the Right-to-Die
movement, of which she is one of our
most inspiring champions.”
With characteristic even-handedness,
Rehm skillfully shows both sides of the
argument, providing the full context for
C anty was the host
of Stateside on
Michigan Radio
~ Amazon Books this highly divisive issue. since the show
began in 2012,
F
With a highly personal foreword retiring in 2019.
or many years
by John Grisham, When My Time A lifelong resident of metro Detroit,
esteemed radio
Comes is a response to many miscon- she has been a television news anchor,
host and author Diane
ceptions of end-of-life care; it is a call producer and reporter. Her reporting
Rehm has been a
to action — and to conscience — and it and writing have earned her many
fierce advocate for
is an attempt to heal and soothe our awards, including an Emmy and honors
physician aid in dying.
hearts, reminding us that death, too, is from the Michigan Association of
Now, in her book,
an integral part of life. Broadcasters, the Associated Press and
When My Time Comes,
the Detroit Press Club.
just out in paperback, Rehm
Rehm hosted The Diane Rehm Show,
addresses one of the toughest subjects
distributed by NPR, from 1979 to GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY
for families to talk about — death. talks with clergy, lawmakers, doctors
2016, when it had a weekly listening Event Sponsor:
and close friends about their views on audience of 2.5 million. She now A Generous Friend of NWS
Through personal stories about her legalizing life ending medicines. hosts a weekly podcast for NPR, On Event Underwriter:
mother’s death and her late husband’s
My Mind. She began her radio career Debbie Edson
battle with Parkinson’s Disease, Rehm Rehm gives voice to a broad range
in 1973 as a volunteer for WAMU Literary Sponsor:
examines patient autonomy, personal of people who are personally linked
88.5, the NPR member station in Mission Point Press
choice and physician aid in dying. She to the realities of medical aid in
taken of a young boy. Alone at recess, and The Seventh Most Important
MARCH 14, 2PM • BATTLE OF THE BOOKS CHAMPIONSHIP he was lying on the playground in the Thing were named American Library
middle of a large picture that he’d Association Notable Books. Her newest
SHELLEY PEARSALL drawn in the dirt. novel is Things Seen From Above
(February 2020). Shelley’s books have
“Readers will think about this novel Shelley Pearsall is the author of seven appeared on numerous state reading
after they’ve closed the book. It’s full acclaimed books for middle grade award lists and received other honors.
of heart … encourages looking at the and teen readers. Her inspiring and
world through a new lens.” thought-provoking novels are used We are thrilled to have award-winning
~ School Library Journal in classrooms nationwide, and she author Shelley Pearsall as the featured
is a popular school speaker. Prior to guest of Battle of the Books.
A
becoming a full-time author, Shelley
pril is desperately
was a classroom teacher. She has also
looking for an GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY
worked in the education departments
escape from all the eFulfillment Service
of several parks and history museums
gossip and drama Hagerty Insurance
where she created museum theater
of the sixth grade
events and led public programs. Lead Star
lunch hour, so she
She has a B.A. from The College of Rollin M. Gerstacker Foundation
signs up to be a
Wooster and a Master's in Education, Hazelnut Kids
Buddy Bench monitor
M. Ed., from John Carroll University. Robert & Anne Tucker
for the fourth grade recess.
Rotary Charities
through the dirt. What is the purpose of
Joey Byrd is a fourth grade outcast Shelley’s first book, Trouble Don’t Last, Sera & Rick Thompson
the mysterious lines he’s drawing? Are
who just wants to be left alone. He's a was published in 2002 and received
they really as random as they seem? IN PARTNERSHIP WITH TRAVERSE
boy on the fringes, who wanders the the prestigious Scott O’Dell Award
AREA DISTRICT LIBRARY
playground alone, dragging his feet Pearsall based her tale on a photo for Historical Fiction. All of the Above
MARCH 19, 7PM • VIRTUAL WINTER/SPRING SEASON Kudos to the National Writers Series
IMBOLO MBUE “The Stantons and everyone else behind the National
Writers Series have done something miraculous in
“The unforgettable story of a
community on the wrong end of Traverse City: They have created an event with more
Western greed… a masterful novel community support, more local media, more pure
by a spellbinding writer.” excitement than in any other event I’ve ever seen.
~ David Eberschoff, author of The Danish Girl Believe me, I’ve done more events than I can count – big
and small, literally all over the world – but if I could only do
one more for the rest of my life, it would be the National Writers Series. ”
Imbolo Mbue is the
author of the New
York Times bestseller
~ STEVE HAMILTON, award-winning author
Behold the Dreamers, LOOKING BACK - SOME AMAZING MOMENTS
which won the PEN/
Faulkner Award for
Fiction and the Blue
Metropolis Words to
Change Prize and was an
Oprah’s Book Club selection. Named
a notable book of the year by The New of a girl named Thula who grows
York Times and The Washington Post up to become a revolutionary, How
and a best book of the year by close Beautiful We Were is a masterful
exploration of what happens when Elizabeth Strout: 2017 Janet Evanovitch & Doug Stanton: 2012
to a dozen publications, the novel has
been translated into eleven languages, the reckless drive for profit, coupled
adapted into an opera and a stage play, with the ghost of colonialism,
and optioned for a movie. A native comes up against one community’s
of Limbe, Cameroon, and a graduate determination to hold on to its
of Rutgers and Columbia Universities, ancestral land and a young woman’s
Mbue lives in New York City. willingness to sacrifice everything for
the sake of her people’s freedom.
“We should have known the end
was near.” So begins Imbolo Mbue’s
powerful second novel, How Beautiful GUEST HOST ROCHELLE RILEY
R
We Were. Set in the fictional African ochelle Riley is the Doug & Anne Stanton: 2018 Anne Patchett: 2016 Tom Brokaw: 2010
village of Kosawa, it tells of a people director of Arts
living in fear amid environmental and Culture for
degradation wrought by an American the city of Detroit.
oil company. Pipeline spills have She is a former
rendered farmlands infertile. Children award-winning
are dying from drinking toxic water. columnist for the
Promises of cleanup and financial Detroit Free Press. She’s written two
reparations to the villagers are books and tours the country with The
made—and ignored. The country’s Burden, speaking about the burden
government, led by a brazen dictator, that America bears because it refuses Mary Karr: 2010 John Bacon speaks to TC Central High School students: 2015
exists to serve its own interests. to deal with the aftermath of slavery.
Left with few choices, the people of She’s bringing her latest book, That
Kosawa decide to fight back. Their They Lived, to the National Writers
struggle will last for decades and Series May 13.
come at a steep price.
GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY
Told from the perspective of a
Literary Sponsor:
generation of children and the family
Michigan Writers
Karl Marlantes: 2019 Alice Walker: 2018 WE WILL BE BACK!
and personal memoir, Cornejo borough of Queens. She graduated
APRIL 8, 7PM • VIRTUAL WINTER/SPRING SEASON Villavicencio travels the country at from Harvard in 2011 and believes
the risk of arrest and deportation she is one of the first undocumented
KARLA CORNEJO to tell of the interior, hidden lives of
undocumented immigrants in the
immigrants to do so. She is a PhD
candidate in the American Studies
VILLAVICENCIO United States. Looking well beyond program at Yale. She was an
“Memorable… compelling… heart- the flashpoints of the border or the Emerson Collective fellow. Cornejo
wrenching… a welcome addition to activism of the Dreamers, Cornejo Villavicencio's book is now a National
the literature on immigration told by Villavicencio explores the lives of the Book Award finalist.
an author who understands the issue undocumented as rarely seen in our
daily headlines.
like few others.” GUEST HOST MYRIAM GURBA
~ Kirkus Reviews is the editor-in-
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio has written
chief of Tasteful
about immigration, music, beauty,
K arla Cornejo Rude, a Brick
and mental illness for The New York
Villavicencio House Collective
Times, The Atlantic, The New Republic,
brings to light publication. She
Glamour, Elle, Vogue, n+1, and The
remarkable is also the author
New Inquiry, among others. She lives
stories of hope of the memoir Mean,
in New Haven with her partner and
and resilience in a New York Times editors’ choice. O,
their dog.
her searing debut, the Oprah Magazine, ranked Mean as
The Undocumented one of the best LGBTQ books of all
Cornejo Villavicencio was born in
Americans. time and Publishers’ Weekly describes
her friends in the sad, “pull yourself 1989 in Ecuador, When she was
Gurba as having a voice like no other.
up by the bootstraps” memoirs that 18 months old, her parents left her
Cornejo Villavicencio has read a vast permeated much of the existing behind when they immigrated to the GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY
amount of books about immigrant life literature. US. When she was four or five, her Event Underwriter:
in America and has hated almost all parents brought her to the United
Debbie Edson
of them. She could not see herself or Using a combination of reporting States; they lived in the New York
first divorce filed in North America on trained to ask questions, follows
APRIL 22, 7PM • VIRTUAL WINTER/SPRING SEASON grounds of domestic violence. a path that leads her home to the
very hospital where they met. It is in
CHRIS BOHJALIAN As a harsh winter descends and mass
hysteria sweeps the New England
development for a TV series.
“Hour of the Witch, a horror-inflected coastline, Mary must race against the His books have been chosen as Best
thriller by Chris Bohjalian. . .[is] a clock to convince a suspicious town Books of the Year by the Washington
‘cry against the paternalistic culture ruled by the Puritanical fist of the Post, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the
and the persecution of outsiders’—in Church to save her from her husband, Hartford Courant, the Milwaukee
other words, very 2020.” or, more pressingly, the noose. Journal-Sentinel, Publishers Weekly,
~ Publishers Weekly Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews,
It’s a timely historical novel about Bookpage, and Salon.
love, fear, feminine power, and
the distrust of those in positions
C
Chris graduated from Amherst
hris Bohjailian is of power. And, because it is Chris College. He lives in Vermont with
on a roll. He’s Bohjalian, the book wouldn’t be his wife, the photographer Victoria
the bestselling complete without an audacious, Blewer.
author of The high-stakes twist at the end.
Flight Attendant,
the hit HBO Max Bohjalian is the #1 New York Times
series and his fifth bestselling author of 21 books. His GUEST HOST TO BE ANNOUNCED
book adapted to the most recent novel (just released), The
screen. And he isn’t slowing down. On is the twisting story of a young Puritan Red Lotus, is a twisting story of love
April 22, he’ll Zoom in to talk about his wife Mary Deerfield, who petitions for and deceit that debuted as a national GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY
new historic thriller, Hour of the Witch. divorce from her cruel and abusive bestseller. An American man vanishes Literary Sponsor:
husband—only to end up on trial for on a rural road in Vietnam and his A Generous Friend of NWS
Set in 17th century New England, this witchcraft. His tale is inspired by the girlfriend, an emergency room doctor
dirty laundry to raise enough money African Americans and the Enduring
MAY 13, 7PM • VIRTUAL WINTER/SPRING SEASON for college. Readers will also learn Impact of Slavery.
about famed musician Duke Ellington,
ROCHELLE RILEY who at the age of seven years old
GUEST HOST LEONARD PITTS, JR.
preferred (like many kids) playing
“The moment my son begins to read, baseball to attending piano lessons.
Leonard Pitts, Jr. is
a Pulitzer Prize-
I will give him this fascinating book.”
winning syndicated
~ Qasim Basir, filmmaker The book also features charming black-
columnist and the
and-white photos of children dressed
in the likeness of each story’s famous
author of several
books, including
subject, so children can learn they can
E very famous the popular novels
be anything they aspire to be and that
person was Freeman, Before I Forget and The Last
every famous person was once a child
once a child Thing You Surrender. His other honors
who, in some cases, overcame great
who, in some include: five National Headliner Awards
obstacles to achieve success.
cases, overcame from the Atlantic City Press Club; the
great obstacles Written for young readers, this is a President’s Award and Journalist of the
to achieve success. book that will also charm and inspire Year Awards from the National Associa-
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