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SHELF LIFE—Living Queer History with Samantha Rosenthal

Samantha Rosenthal discusses Living Queer History: Remembrance and Belonging in a Southern City and the LGBTQ community in Roanoke, Virginia, that the book documents and celebrates. Interweaving historical analysis, theory, …

Gender, Identity, LGBTQ
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On-Demand Video | 2022 Festival

Making Sense of the World, Making Sense of Ourselves: Graphic Memoirs

Courtney Cook (The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces) and Laura Gao (Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American) explore how growing …

Asian American, Gender, Graphic Novel
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On-Demand Video | 2022 Festival

Transformative Desire: Literary Fiction

Alex DiFrancesco (Transmutation), Lindsay Merbaum (The Gold Persimmon), and Morgan Thomas (Manywhere) discuss their genre-defying fiction, populated by characters who grapple with ideas of identity, desire, free will, transformation, and …

Fiction, Gender, Identity
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On-Demand Video | 2022 Festival

Bodies in Space & Time: Identity in Sci-Fi & Speculative Fiction

Ryka Aoki (Light from Uncommon Stars), Micaiah Johnson (The Space Between Worlds), and Lincoln Michel (The Body Scout) discuss the explorations of race, gender, and identity posed in their science …

Gender, Identity, LGBTQ
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On-Demand Video | 2022 Festival

The Emotional Pull of Home

Join authors Joanna Eleftheriou (This Way Back), Henry Hoke (Sticker), and Jennifer Niesslein (Dreadful Sorry) as they share their place-centered essays and memoirs, addressing questions of class, history, family, gender, …

Gender, In-Person Programming, LGBTQ
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On-Demand Video | 2022 Festival

The Wrong End of the Telescope with Rabih Alameddine

Rabih Alameddine (The Wrong End of the Telescope) discusses his latest novel, a transporting new novel about an Arab American trans woman’s journey among Syrian refugees on Lesbos island. In …

Fiction, Gender, Identity
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On-Demand Video | 2022 Festival

Magic & Mythical: YA Fantasy

Deborah Falaye (Blood Scion), TJ Klune (Flash Fire), and Anna-Marie McLemore (Lakelore) explore the challenges of growing up amidst the magical and extraordinary circumstances of fantastical worlds. Whether superpowers, mythological …

Fiction, Gender, Identity
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We Are Watching Eliza Bright with A.E. Osworth

A.E. Osworth, author of We Are Watching Eliza Bright, discussed their debut novel about a brilliant, self-taught, woman video game coder, the industry-pervading misogyny she faces, and the resulting violence …

Gender, LGBTQ, Technology
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Suggested Reading | 2021 Festival

Suggested Events for Fans of Literary Fiction

Keep reading to discover some of the literary fiction line-up on the 2021 Festival schedule…

African American, Fiction, Gender
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