Your Week in Virtual Book Events, March 15th to March 20th

Acts of Exclusion: A Conversation with Tiffany Jana
Monday, March 15, 12:00 pm EDT
Artist and consultant Tiffany Jana (Subtle Acts of Exclusion: How to Understand, Identify, and Stop Microaggressions) discusses their work, a practical handbook that helps individuals and organizations recognize and prevent microaggressions so that all employees and members can feel a sense of belonging. In conversation with Kaki Dimock. Free, with registration.

Ethan Porter and John Mark Hansen:”The Consumer Citizen” 
Monday, March 15, 6:00 pm EDT
Ethan Porter will discuss The Consumer Citizen. He will be joined in conversation by John Mark Hansen. Presented in partnership with The Institute for Data, Democracy and Politics at George Washington University. Free, with registration.

Reading Under the Influence: Music, History & Race
Monday, March 15, 7:00 pm EDT
Regina Bradley (Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of Hip-Hop South), Adam Gussow (Whose Blues? Facing Up to Race and the Future of Music), and Claudrena Harold (When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras) discuss the ways that music, history, and race intersect in the creation of American identity, with a focus on blues, southern hip-hop, and late-century gospel music. Free, with registration.

2021 University of Wisconsin Poetry MFA Graduates Reading
Monday, March 15, 8:00 pm EDT
Presented in partnership with the UW Program in Creative Writing, a reading from the graduating MFA cohort in poetry. This event will feature the work of Gabriella Balza, Adrienne Chung, Miriam Huettner, Itiola Jones, Alison Thumel, Ajibola Tolase. Free, via Crowdcast.

Skylit: I Had a Miscarriage by Jessica Zucker, with Erica McAfee
Monday, March 15, 9:00 pm EDT
Join Jessica Zucker (I Had a Miscarriage) and Erica McAfee, who will discuss Zucker’s evocative memoir which confronts the cultural silence around miscarriage and illuminates how to transform trauma into human connection. Free, via Crowdcast.

Before the Ever After with Jacqueline Woodson
Tuesday, March 16, 2:00 pm EDT
National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson discusses her new book for young readers, Before the Ever After, a stirring novel-in-verse exploring the cost of professional sports on Black bodies and the ways a family moves forward when their glory days have passed. A Q&A featuring students’ pre-submitted questions will also be included. Free, with registration.

Virtual Event: W. Ralph Eubanks for A Place Like Mississippi
Tuesday, March 16, 6:00 pm EDT
W. Ralph Eubanks celebrates the release of his newest book, In A Place Like Mississippi, which treats us to a literary tour of the evocative landscapes that have inspired writers in every era. From Faulkner to Wright, Welty to Trethewey, Mississippi has been both a backdrop and a central character in some of the most compelling prose and poetry of modern literature. Free, with registration.

Claudia Zoe Bedrick and Ping Zhu
Tuesday, March 16, 6:30 pm EDT
Join Rain Taxi as it presents a conversation with publisher, editor, and art director of Enchanted Lion Books Claudia Zoe Bedrick and illustrator of The Snail with the Right Heart Ping Zhu. These two creative visionaries will discuss the joys and challenges of indie publishing for the children’s market as well as their individual paths to creating their art. The conversation will be moderated by author, essayist, and editor Bruce Handy. Free, via Crowdcast.

Kazuo Ishiguro, author of Klara and the Sun, in conversation with Ron Charles
Tuesday, March 16, 7:00 pm EDT
Boswell Book Company, in partnership with Left Bank Books of St. Louis and Anderson’s Bookshop s of Naperville and Downers Grove, presents an evening with Kazuo Ishiguro, author of Klara and the Sun, his first novel since being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. For this special event, Ishiguro will be in conversation with Ron Charles, who writes about books and publishing for The Washington Post. Tickets start at $28 and can be reserved here.

An Evening with Jacqueline Woodson
Tuesday, March 16, 7:00 pm EDT
In partnership with the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library’s Same Page community-wide reading series, acclaimed author Jacqueline Woodson will read from and discuss her latest novel, Red at the Bone, as well as her National Book Award winning memoir-in-verse, Brown Girl Dreaming. Free, with registration.

NEA Big Read: Ernest J. Gaines on Criminal Justice
Tuesday, March 16, 7:30 pm EDT
In A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest Gaines wrote about an unfair and brutal American justice system—one that’s still operating today. For the second NEA Big Read event, Reverend David Telfort from the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church will moderate a discussion on America’s faulty criminal justice system with its roots in slavery and a vision for truly achieving a system of justice in the future. He’ll be joined by Kyung-Ji Kate Rhee of the Center for NuLeadership on Human Justice and Healing and Dr. David Khey, a criminal justice expert currently researching in the same Louisiana prison system as the one featured in A Lesson Before Dying. Free via Zoom Webinar.

Last Train to London by Meg Waite Clayton
Tuesday, March 16, 8:00 pm EDT
On Tuesday 16 March at 8pm, Los Angeles-based writer Meg Waite Clayton will talk about her acclaimed novel Last Train to London. This is a powerful pre-WWII era novel based on the true story of the Kindertransport rescue of ten thousand children from Nazi-occupied Europe—and one brave Dutch woman, Truus Wijsmuller, who helped some of them escape. Free, with registration.

Kim Addonizio & Friends
Tuesday, March 16, 9:00 pm EDT
Join Kim Addonizio, Brittany Perham, Peter Kline, and Tracey Knapp in an evening of poetry celebrating the launch of Kim’s new collection, which veers between the poles of self and world. Free, with registration.

Kathleen Dean Moore, Earth’s Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Song
Tuesday, March 16, 9:00 pm EDT
Village Books welcomes back Kathleen Dean Moore (Earth’s Wild Music) as part of its Nature of Writing Series. Free, with registration.

Skylit: Justine by Forsyth Harmon, with Melissa Broder
Tuesday, March 16, 9:30 pm EDT
Join Forsyth Harmon and Melissa Broder, as they discuss Harmon’s novel Justine, an unflinching portrait of American girlhood at the edge of adulthood—one in which obsession hastens heartbreak. Free, via Crowdcast.

Women Lit #UNBOUND Presents: Following the Joy with LaRayia Gaston
Tuesday, March 16, 10:00 pm EDT
LaRayia Gaston’s Love Without Reason: The Lost Art of Giving a F*ck offers a powerful antidote to the culturally-sanctioned apathy that prevents us from really seeing and reaching each other in all our messy, beautiful, complex humanity. Joining Gatson is essayist and poet Jeneé Darden. Tickets start at $20 and can be reserved here.

Indigenous Lit: Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle, Kelli Jo Ford & Diane Wilson
Wednesday, March 17, 12:00 pm EDT
Novelists Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle (Even As We Breathe), Kelli Jo Ford (Crooked Hallelujah), and Diane Wilson (The Seed Keeper) discuss their work as indigenous writers celebrating Dakota and Cherokee cultures and traditions amid larger forces of history, religion, and class in America. Free, with registration.

Camino del Sol presents Urayoán Noel
Wednesday, March 17, 6:30 pm EDT
Celebrated poet Urayoán Noel will read from his new collection, Transversal, joined by Camino del Sol series editor Rigoberto González. Free, with registration.

The Human Cost of One-Click Orders
Wednesday, March 17, 7:00 pm EDT
Award-winning journalists Alec MacGillis (Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America) and Amelia Pang (Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America’s Cheap Goods) explore the hidden costs of our globalized, internet-driven consumer economy, discussing forced labor camp enslavement in China, as well as the ubiquity, exploitation, and corruption of Amazon.com, Inc., whose power now extends beyond the control of governments. Free, with registration.

Yotam Ottolenghi and Claire Saffitz: “Ottolenghi Flavor”
Wednesday, March 17, 7:00 pm EDT
Yotam Ottolenghi will discuss Ottlolenghi Flavor. He will be joined in conversation by Claire Saffitz. Free, with registration.

Lisa Zeidner on Who Says?: Mastering Point of View in Fiction with Ron Charles
Wednesday, March 17, 7:30 pm EDT
Lisa Zeidner will join Washington Post book critic Ron Charles in conversation on her newest book Who Says?: Mastering Point of View in Fiction. Zeidner is a prolific novelist (Customs, Love Bomb), poet, and English professor at Rutgers University. Who Says? is a deep dive into points of view, familiar and unfamiliar, in fiction writing. Using examples from literary greats, Zeidner provides readers with a new system for experimenting with point of view. Free via Zoom Webinar.

Powell’s Books Presents Chanda Prescod-Weinstein in Conversation With Elissa Washuta
Wednesday, March 17, 8:00 pm EDT
From a star theoretical physicist comes a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos—and a call for a more just practice of science. In The Disordered Cosmos (Bold Type Books), Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein shares her love for physics, from the Standard Model of Particle Physics and what lies beyond it, to the physics of melanin in skin, to the latest theories of dark matter—all with a new spin informed by history, politics, and the wisdom of Star Trek. Free, with registration.

A Celebration for Akilah Oliver’s the she said dialogues: flesh memory
Wednesday, March 17, 8:00 pm EDT
The Poetry Project is proud to join Nightboat in celebrating the republication of Akilah Oliver’s beloved book, the she said dialogues: flesh memory, which investigates “the non-linear synapses between desire, memory, blackness (as both a personal identity and a non-essentialist historical notion), sexuality and language.” Free, with registration.

In Your Face – Womxn Writing Truth
Wednesday, March 17, 9:00 pm EDT
In celebration of Women’s History Month, Myriam Gurba, author of Mean (which was named by O, The Oprah Magazine as one of the “Best LGBTQ Books of All Time”), talks to 2020 Creative Capital Awardee Randa Jarrar about her new memoir, Love is an Ex-Country. With musical guest Kelly Caballero. Free, with registration.

Filled with Possibility: Poetry
Thursday, March 18, 4:00 pm EDT
Poets Erika Meitner (Holy Moly Carry Me), Kiki Petrosino (White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia), and Brian Teare (Doomstead Days) read from their newest collections, highly-acclaimed poetry that speaks to contemporary life, working through history, genealogical roots, environmental crises, loss, and more, finding ways to understand and live and breathe. Free, with registration.

Women’s Liberation!
Thursday, March 18, 6:00 pm EDT
Featuring Women’s Liberation! anthology editors Alix Kates Shulman (Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen) and Honor Moore (Our Revolution: A Mother and Daughter at Midcentury) with Barbara Smith (The Truth that Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom), Margo Jefferson (Negroland: A Memoir), and Jennifer Baumgardner (editor, Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future). Free, with registration.

Jamie Figueroa and Carla Bruce-Eddings for Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer
Thursday, March 18, 6:00 pm EDT
Join Jamie Figueroa and Carla Bruce-Eddings to celebrate the release of Figueroa’s Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer. Free, though donation of any amount will go to Black Lives Matter DC. Register here.

Double Draw Dare with Tom Angleberger & Dub Leffler
Thursday, March 18, 7:00 pm EDT
Children’s book author-illustrators Tom Angleberger (DJ Funkyfoot! Butler for Hire) and Dub Leffler (Once There Was a Boy) take part in this interactive event for ages five and up, discussing their award-winning books for young readers. Fun for all ages! Free, with registration.

Mary Frances Winter: Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit
Thursday, March 18, 7:30 pm EDT
Mary-Frances Winters will be in conversation with Stephanie Paredes, Assistant Director, Multicultural Programs in the Division for Diversity & Inclusion at RIT. Free, with registration.

California Book Club: Nina Revoyr in Conversation with John Freeman
Thursday, March 18, 8:00 pm EDT
John Freeman will lead a free hour-long conversation with Nina Revoyr, which will include a reading by Revoyr and questions from the audience. Produced by Alta for streaming on Zoom. Free, with registration.

Jackie Polzin, author of Brood, in conversation with Jane Hamilton
Thursday, March 18, 8:00 pm EDT
The latest entry in the Ink/Well author series featuring conversations with Jane Hamilton is an evening with Jackie Polzin, author of BROOD, a wryly funny, nakedly honest, beautifully observational debut novel. Free, with registration.

tránsitos del sueño del istmo con Tierra Narrative
Thursday, March 18, 8:00 pm EDT
As an embodiment of dreaming, how can poetry alter our relationships to colonial geographies and their spectral residues? This reading and following conversation (moderated by curatorial fellows) brings together three poets whose works trace alternate cartographies of Central America and the Caribbean through dream-work and re-visions of history, ancestry and time. Readings from Shyanne Figueroa Bennett (US), Edgar García (US), and Wingston Gonzalez (Guatemala). Free, with registration.

Adam Levin in conversation with Lauren Oyler: “Bubblegum”
Thursday, March 18, 8:00 pm EDT
Join Levin and Oyler as they celebrate the publication of and discuss Levin’s Bubblegum, about a world in which the Internet does not exist. Free, registration required.

Patricia Engel with Roberto Lovato, Jean Guerrero, Juliana Delgado Lopera
Thursday, March 18, 9:00 pm EDT
Patricia Engel celebrates the launch of her new novel Infinite Country, an urgent and lyrical novel about a Colombian family fractured by deportation, offering an intimate perspective on an experience that so many have endured—and are enduring right now. She is joined by the following esteemed guests: Roberto Lovato, Jean Guerrero, and Juliana Delgado Lopera. Free, with registration.

The Frontlines of Peace: An Insider’s Guide to Changing the World
Friday, March 19, 12:00 pm EDT
Join Séverine Autesserre and Jean-Marie Guehenno, as they discuss Autesserre’s The Frontlines of Peace, which examines the well-intentioned but inherently flawed peace industry. Zoom. Free, though advanced registration is required.

Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb – “Epidemic Empire: Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror, 1817–2020”
Friday, March 19, 1:00 pm EDT
Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb, author of Epidemic Empire: Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror, 1817–2020, in conversation with Leela Gandhi. Free, with registration.

S*an D. Henry-Smith & Gabrielle Octavia Ruckerr
Friday, March 19, 8:00 pm EDT
The poetry of S*an D. Henry-Smith and Gabrielle Octavia Rucker nourishes and burns simultaneously. Introductions by Hannah Black and Fred Moten. Free, with registration.

Samantha Shannon in conversation with Amanda Joy, Mask Falling
Saturday, March 20, 4:00 pm EDT
Join what will be a riveting conversation between Samantha Shannon and fantasy authors Amanda Joy and Mask Falling, as they discuss Shannon’s Mask Falling, a gripping, fantastical urban-fantasy. Free, with registration.

Sara Lupita Olivares and Gina Franco: “Migratory Sound” and “The Accidentals”
Saturday, March 20, 7:00 pm EDT
Join Sara Lupita Olivares and Gina Franco in conversation about poetics, migration, and their latest work. Free, with registration.