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Q&A with Shelf Life author Nick Pyenson
Nick Pyenson, author of Spying on Whales, is the curator of fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. His work has taken him …
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Q&A with Fathoms author Rebecca Giggs
Rebecca Giggs, author of Fathoms, is from Perth, Australia. Her nonfiction has appeared in The Atlantic, Granta, and Best Australian Essays, among other publications. Her writing focuses on our connection to animals in a …
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Challenging Slavery in the Courtroom: A Question of Freedom
William G. Thomas III shares his intricate and intensely human history of enslaved families of Prince George’s County, Maryland, and the hundreds of lawsuits they brought against slavery…
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Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot with Evette Dionne & Martha S. Jones
Evette Dionne, editor-in-chief of Bitch Media and author of Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box, discussed her book with Martha S. Jones…
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SHELF LIFE—Worlds within Words: A Poetry Reading
Watch the Shelf Life event with poets Nin Andrews, Sandra Beasley, Vijay Seshadri, and Katherine E. Young…
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Dark Times & Mercy: John Grisham and Ian Rankin in Conversation
Watch the recording of this event from the 2021 Va. Festival of the Book with John Grisham and Ian Rankin…
