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On-Demand Video | 2022 Festival

Fresh Portraits of Indomitable Women

Hilary Holladay (The Power of Adrienne Rich: A Biography) and Andrew Kaufman, (The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky) investigate the true …

Biography, In-Person Programming, Non-Fiction
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On-Demand Video | 2022 Festival

JMRL Same Page Community Read: We Are Not Free with Traci Chee

Traci Chee (We Are Not Free) discusses her acclaimed novel for young readers, the collective account of a tight-knit group of young Nisei, second-generation Japanese American citizens, whose lives are …

Asian American, Fiction, Identity
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On-Demand Video | 2022 Festival

Who Owns Your DNA?

Genetics legal authority Jorge Contreras (The Genome Defense) shares the behind-the-scenes strategies and battles that played out over years in the groundbreaking civil rights case, AMP v. Myriad, fighting private …

genetics, Law, Virtual Programming
Blog
On-Demand Video | 2022 Festival

Modern Love: Romance Fiction

Verity Lowell (Meet Me in Madrid) and Jean Meltzer (The Matzah Ball) explore romance at the crossroads of tradition, convention, and modernity, taking readers to Madrid and a Matzah Ball …

Fiction, LGBTQ, Romance
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On-Demand Video | 2022 Festival

Dreaming up the World: Middle-Grade Fiction

Ruth Behar (Letters from Cuba), Alda P. Dobbs (Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna), Sylvia Liu (Manatee’s Best Friend), and Lisa Yee (Maizy Chen’s Last Chance) explore themes of family, migration, …

Asian American, Environment, Latinx
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On-Demand Video

Sights & Sounds: Visual Poetry

Poets David Campos (American Quasar), Naoko Fujimoto (Glyph), and Aurielle Marie (Gumbo Ya Ya) employ not only the written word but also a visual vocabulary in their work. Linking text …

Asian American, Black/African American, LGBTQ
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On-Demand Video | 2022 Festival

Eyewitness to the Past

Writers Anneliese Bruner (great-granddaughter to the author of The Nation Must Awake), Gayle Jessup White (Reclamation), and Steve Majors (High Yella) share their histories and life stories, offering a close …

Black/African American, In-Person Programming, Virtual Programming
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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
Blog
On-Demand Video | 2022 Festival

The Critical Role of Local Journalism

Authors and media specialists Christopher Ali (Farm Fresh Broadband) and Jennifer Lawless (News Hole) share their work and discuss the many challenges to open access to local news, including struggling …

journalism, Virtual Programming
Blog
On-Demand Video | 2022 Festival

Exploring Family Bonds

Authors Jan Beatty (American Bastard: A Memoir), Taylor Harris (This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown), and Julietta Singh (The Breaks: An Essay) offer …

Black/African American, Identity, In-Person Programming
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On-Demand Video | 2022 Festival

A Thousand Steps into Night with Traci Chee

Traci Chee (A Thousand Steps into Night) discusses her new YA fantasy novel, a Japanese-influenced fantasy brimming with demons, adventure, and plans gone awry. In conversation with Emma Ito. Read …

Fiction, In-Person Programming, Virtual Programming
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