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Malala Yousafzai: The Waterstones Interview
[Note: The description below is taken from the Youtube channel of Waterstones, which interviewed Malala Yousafzai] After sharing her story in I Am Malala, the youngest Nobel Peace Prize-winner, Malala Yousafzai, returns with another book, We Are Displaced which shares the stories of other young girls from around the world who have all been displaced from their homes. We spoke to her about what they all share in common, where their courage comes from, and why books and education remain so important to all of them.
Picture Freedom
In the decades leading up to the end of U.S. slavery, many free Blacks posed for daguerreotypes—a type of very early photograph. These portraits captured their stories and recorded history, served to prepare blacks and whites both for the coming realities of emancipation, and dignified their subjects, particularly by representing Blackness outside the cultural trappings and assumptions of slavery. In Picture Freedom, Duke University Professor Jasmine Nichole Cobb explores these images to trace the emergence of black freedom as an idea and as a visual representation that has always been crucial - if contentious - to establishing selfhood.
Victor LaValle & Guests: A People's Future of the United States | NYPL
Some of today’s most imaginative writers of speculative fiction challenge old narratives of oppression by envisioning new futures for America.

Howard Zinn’s seminal 1980 work A People’s History of the United States challenged our understanding of the country’s past by uncovering its darker truths; nearly 40 years later A People’s Future of the United States challenges our visions of tomorrow with stories about freedom, love, and justice. While Zinn helped give voice to many whose histories had been overlooked—like the working poor and immigrant laborers—this new collection of stories restores a sense of justice to the generations of their offspring who have in turn been deprived of the right to create futures of their own design.

A People’s Future of the United States comes to life as one of its editors, Victor LaValle, speaks with four contributors— Maria Dahvana Headley, N.K. Jemisin, Alice Sola Kim, and Sam J. Miller—about the fantasies and projections for the future of the country they have dared to imagine.
K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher
Join Repeater Books for a discussion of Mark Fisher’s work with the novelist Hari Kunzru, Chapo Trap House co-host Amber A’Lee Frost, writer Sukhdev Sandhu, and musician Meredith Graves.

Book launch for “K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher,” published by Repeater Books. Filmed at Verso Books in Brooklyn on November 28, 2018.

When Mark Fisher committed suicide in 2017 at the age of 48, we lost one of the twenty-first century’s greatest cultural theorists. An icon for today’s insurgent “alt-left,” from 2003 to 2016 Fisher wrote dazzling analyses of our strange and terrifying world—neoliberalism, the loneliness and distracted boredom of digital life, and how these realities are reflected in music, film, TV, and literature. He also developed a vision of a different future—based on community, democratic control of the economy, creative freedom for all, and harnessing technology for the good of humanity.

“K-Punk” collects Fisher’s most incendiary and influential posts from his seminal blog “k-punk”, as well as a selection of his brilliantly insightful film, television and music reviews, together with his extraordinary writings on politics, activism, mental health, and popular modernism for numerous websites and magazines. Also included are two previously unpublished essays, the unfinished introduction to his planned book on “Acid Communism”, and an analysis of the 2016 US Presidential election, written shortly after Trump’s victory.
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah at the 2018 5 Under 35 Celebration
Selected by Colson Whitehead.

Featuring Ben Greenman, Colson Whitehead, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah.
Costa Book of the Year 2018
It's not often that you get to speak to the author and subject of a biography at the same time but it was privilege to speak with Bart van Es, winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2018 for The Cut-Out Girl, and Lien de Jong, the incredible woman whose life story makes for such moving reading.
Franklin Foer: World Without Mind
Within the last 24 hours, it’s statistically likely that you’ve: used your iPhone to Google something, scrolled Facebook, and shopped on Amazon. “This is a nascent stage in the total automation and homogenization of social, political, and intellectual life” argues Franklin Foer—and “At stake is nothing less than who we are, and what we will become.” In World Without Mind, Foer, a national correspondent for The Atlantic and former editor of The New Republic, paints a foreboding portrait of the existential threat posed by big tech. What has been sold to us as convenience, he says, comes at the terrible cost of privacy, autonomy, individuality, and choice. Join us for this urgent conversation on the imperative of resistance and our power to stem the tide.
Life of a Poet: Marilyn Chin
Poet Marilyn Chin joins Ron Charles an in-depth discussion of the writer's career and the major events that have shaped her work. Readings from Chin's are interspersed throughout the conversation.

Speaker Biography: Marilyn Chin was born in Hong Kong and raised in Portland, Oregon. Her books have become Asian-American classics and are taught in classrooms internationally. She is presently celebrating the launch of her new book, "A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems." Chin's other books of poems include "Hard Love Province," "Rhapsody in Plain Yellow," "Dwarf Bamboo" and "The Phoenix Gone, The Terrace Empty." Her book of wild girl fiction is called "Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen." She has won numerous awards, including the PEN/Josephine Miles Award, five Pushcart Prizes, a Fulbright Fellowship to Taiwan, a Lannan Fellowship and others. Chin is professor emerita of San Diego State University, and recently, she was guest poet at universities from Beijing to Berlin. Presently, she serves as a chancellor for the Academy of American Poets.

Speaker Biography: Ron Charles is the editor of The Washington Post's Book World section. For several years, he also edited the Post's "Poet's Choice" column in Book World. His reviews have won the National Book Critics Circle Award for best criticism and 1st place for Arts & Entertainment Commentary from the Society for Features Journalism.
Ellie Kemper talks about her new book My Squirrel Days, and more
Ellie Kemper talks about her new book My Squirrel Days, and more, with Michelle Collins. Recorded Nov 26, 2018 at 92nd Street Y.

Two-time Emmy nominee Ellie Kemper offers up her irresistible cheer in the hilarious and inspiring essay collection, My Squirrel Days. Join Ellie as she shares her freewheeling stories—from growing up in suburban St. Louis with a vivid imagination and a crush on David Letterman, to moving to Los Angeles and accidentally falling on Doris Kearns Goodwin. And yes, about her childhood as a nature lover, determined to commune with squirrels. Desperate for an antidote to the chaos of modern life? Ellie’s your girl.
“The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee”: David Treuer
We end today’s show with “The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee,” a stunning new book by David Treuer that looks at Native America from 1890 to the present day. The book’s powerful mix of memoir, extensive interview and storytelling presents decades of indigenous history that have been sidelined by the mainstream. David Treuer is Ojibwe from the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. He teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Southern California.
Writers Resist LA 2019 Reading Introduction
Kick-off of 1/13/2019 Writers Resist LA reading at Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center in Venice, CA, includes remarks by Beyond Baroque Dir. Richard Modiano, event organizers Lynne Thompson and David St. John as well as Natalie Green of PEN CENTER USA and Spencer Windes of the ACLU of Southern California.
Jason Reynolds: 2018 National Book Festival
Jason Reynolds discusses "Sunny" at the 2018 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.

Speaker Biography: Jason Reynolds is a New York Times best-selling author, a Newbery Award Honoree, a Printz Award Honoree, a National Book Award Honoree, a Kirkus Award winner, a two-time Walter Dean Myers Award winner, an NAACP Image Award Winner and the recipient of multiple Coretta Scott King honors. The American Booksellers Association's 2017 spokesperson for Indies First, his many books include "When I Was the Greatest," "Boy in the Black Suit," "All American Boys" (co-written with Brendan Kiely), "As Brave as You," "For Every One" and "Long Way Down," which received both a Newbery Honor and a Printz Honor. He has also written the "Track" series, which includes "Ghost," "Patina," and "Sunny" (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy), his latest book. He lives in Washington, D.C.
National Book Festival Gala 2018
This authors' gala was held the evening before the 2018 Library of Congress National Book Festival and featured awards, special presentations and readings by leading authors.
Overlooked: Ida B. Wells
Born in Mississippi within a year of emancipation, journalist and activist Ida B. Wells lit up the lynching-laden, injustice-soaked Jim Crow-era south with boycotts, legal battles, and scorching editorials. As a fierce investigative journalist, she unveiled racist violence and humanized the stories of the victims. Despite her remarkable impact, Wells never received an obituary in The New York Times—until now. As part of a project called Overlooked, Wells’ newly penned obituary will join those of other remarkable women in history. Nikole Hannah-Jones (investigative reporter for The New York Times Magazine); Michelle Duster (Wells’ great granddaughter); and Eve L. Ewing come together in recognition of the enduring legacy of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and the equally enduring fight for racial justice. Natalie Moore (South Side bureau reporter for WBEZ) will moderate.

This program is presented in partnership with The New York Times and the Chicago Urban League, with the support of the Lohengrin Foundation.
Kristen Roupenian | You Know You Want This
Kristen Roupenian celebrates the launch of her first short story collection, You Know You Want This, in conversation with writer Haley Mlotek.

You Know You Want This brilliantly explores the ways in which women are horrifying as much as it captures the horrors that are done to them. Among its pages are a couple who becomes obsessed with their friend hearing them have sex, then seeing them have sex…until they can’t have sex without him; a ten-year-old whose birthday party takes a sinister turn when she wishes for “something mean”; a woman who finds a book of spells half hidden at the library and summons her heart’s desire: a nameless, naked man; and a self-proclaimed “biter” who dreams of sneaking up behind and sinking her teeth into a green-eyed, long-haired, pink-cheeked coworker.

Spanning a range of genres and topics—from the mundane to the murderous and supernatural—these are stories about sex and punishment, guilt and anger, the pleasure and terror of inflicting and experiencing pain. These stories fascinate and repel, revolt and arouse, scare and delight in equal measure. And, as a collection, they point a finger at you, daring you to feel uncomfortable—or worse, understood—as if to say, “You want this, right? You know you want this.”

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