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As part of the “Invocations” series taking place in conjunction with the exhibition, THE LONG TERM YOU CANNOT AFFORD. ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE TOXIC, Flournoy will be presenting the following talk: Domesticated Paradise: Climate and Community in Southern California
Admission is free and open to the public.
At the American Academy, Flournoy will read from a novel-in-progress that tracks the lives of a group of African-American women living in Los Angeles and New York over two decades, from present-day to the near future. She will also discuss her research, which focuses on shifting demographics in urban centers and how these changes impact the sense of community, isolation, and belonging among African-American city-dwellers. Event info can be found here.
4-Day Workshop
Wednesday – Saturday, May 8 – 11 | 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Embedded in the stories we write are numerous smaller stories–the ones characters tell themselves about the lives they’ve led and the people they’ve known, which combine to give us a fuller sense of characters and their concerns. We will examine memory as a vital tool for character development, and we will look at the ways that memory can influence nearly every other element of a work of fiction. We will spend time with oral history collections in an effort to get a better understanding of how memory works, and the tricks that memory can play. This class is a combination of generative writing exercises and discussion of fiction from writers including Edward P. Jones, Alice Munro and Yiyun Li.
Angela Flournoy is the author of The Turner House, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times notable book of the year. The novel was also a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and an NAACP Image Award. She is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree for 2015. Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, and she has written for the New York Times, The Nation, the Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. A graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, Flournoy received her undergraduate degree from the University of Southern California. She has taught at the University of Iowa, the New School, Columbia University, and Princeton University.
The English Department is hosting the National Book Foundation on April 9th. Every year, the National Book Foundation sponsors the National Book Awards, presenting coveted and prestigious prizes to some of the best writers in the USA. A reading and discussion by two National Book Award prize winners, poet Justin Phillip Reed, and novelist Angela Flournoy, will take place at 5 pm in Banquet Room B of the OC, on Tuesday, April 9th. Come hear these two major writers read from their writing and discuss cross-connections in their work. The reading is free and open to the public, and refreshments will be provided. After the panel, there will be a Q&A with the authors, and a book signing.
The mission of the National Book Foundation, presenter of the National Book Awards, is to celebrate the best literature in America, expand its audience, and ensure that books have a prominent place in American culture. The Foundation approaches this work from three programmatic angles: Awards & Honors, recognizing exceptional authors, literature, and literary programs; Education & Access initiatives, helping young and adult readers develop a lifelong passion for books; and Public Programs, bringing acclaimed authors to communities nationwide to engage in conversations about books and the power of literature as a tool for understanding our world, cultivating meaningful discourse around the issues of our age. Information on all of the Foundation’s programs can be found online at nationalbook.org.
Location
Oakland Center (OC)
Banquet Room B
312 Meadow Brook Road
Rochester , MI 48309-4454
Contact Information
Annette Gilson
In partnership with the National Book Foundation, presenter of the National Book Awards, the Wayne State University Department of English is pleased to present a conversation between two contemporary, award-winning writers, as a part of its Open Field Reading Series.
Whether for reasons of race, class, sexuality, or other intersecting identities, the systems on which our society is meant to rely often fail to serve certain groups and individuals. How can fiction and poetry serve as an indictment of structural failure as well as a mode of reinforcing the community ties that sustain us? Join National Book Award Finalist and 5 Under 35 honoree Angela Flournoy (The Turner House) and National Book Award Winner Justin Phillip Reed (Indecency) for a conversation on the power of literature as both critique and comfort.
ANGELA FLOURNOY is the author of The Turner House, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times notable book of the year. The novel was also a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and an NAACP Image Award. She is a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" Honoree for 2015. Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, and she has written for The New York Times, The Nation, The Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Flournoy received her undergraduate degree from the University of Southern California. She has taught at the University of Iowa, The New School, Columbia University and Princeton University. Flournoy was the 2016-17 Rona Jaffe Foundation Fellow at the New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. She is a 2018 National Endowment for the Arts fellow.
JUSTIN PHILLIP REED is an American poet living in St. Louis. He is the author of Indecency (Coffee House Press), winner of the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry and a finalist for the 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, as well as the chapbook A History of Flamboyance (YesYes Books, 2016). His work appears in African American Review, Best American Essays, Callaloo, The Kenyon Review, Obsidian, and elsewhere. A three-time high school expellee and an ex-college dropout, he received his BA in creative writing at Tusculum College and his MFA in poetry at Washington University in St. Louis, where he served as Junior Writer-in-Residence. He has received fellowships from the Cave Canem Foundation, the Conversation Literary Festival, and the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis. Reed was born and raised in South Carolina.
This event will be hosted on the first floor of the Purdy Kresge Graduate Library, in the Kresge Auditorium (room 110). The moderated conversation and book signing will take place from 6:00-7:45p on Monday, April 8.
BOOK GIVEAWAY courtesy of the National Book Foundation!
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This event is FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Seating is limited.
Location: Purdy/Kresge Library Auditorium
5265 Cass Detroit, MI 48202
Cost: FREE
For more information about this event, please contact Connor Newton at 248.933.1644 or connor.newton@wayne.edu.
JSC Morrison @ Occidental College
1600 Campus Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90041
Please join us for a reading and Q&A with award winning author in residence Angela Flournoy. Refreshments will be served.
Hailed as an “assured and memorable novel” by the New York Review of Books, Flournoy’s book brings us a colorful, complicated brood full of love and pride, sacrifice and unlikely inheritances. It’s a striking examination of the price we pay for our dreams and futures, and the ways in which our families bring us home. The author will be reading excerpts from her debut novel, followed by a Q& A from the audience.
Fiction First Novel Prize, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and an NAACP Image Award. She is a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” Honoree for 2015. Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, and she has written for The New York Times, The Nation, The Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere.
A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Flournoy received her undergraduate degree from the University of Southern California. She has taught at the University of Iowa, The New School, Columbia University and Princeton University.
Flournoy was the 2016-17 Rona Jaffe Foundation Fellow at the New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. She is a 2018 National Endowment for the Arts fellow.
When: Tuesday, January 29, 2019 4:00 pm
Where: 193 Kaplan Hall
Join us on Friday October 26 for a reading by fiction writer Angela Flournoy!
3:30-4:30 pm, K-State Student Union, Wildcat Chamber
The Literaryswag Book Club returns with a conversation about Angela Flournoy's award winning novel, The Turner House. Angela Flournoy will join the meeting. The meeting is free and open to the public, and hosted by Yahdon Israel. SOLD OUT!
The Brooklyn Circus 150 Nevins Street Brooklyn, NY 11217
As part of the I Am America series, writers Terese Marie Mailhot and Angela Flournoy discuss how we reckon with the historical legacies that are handed down to us, and how they become part of our personal stories. The event will be moderated by our executive director, Noreen Tomassi.
In her bestselling memoir Heart Berries, Mailhot looks at growing up on Seabird Island Indian Reservation in Canada. Flournoy’s novel The Turner House, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, traces the story of generations of an African American family through their home on Detroit’s East Side.
Terese Marie Mailhot is from Seabird Island Band. She graduated with an MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her writing appears in West Branch, Guernica, Pacific Standard, Elle, The LA Times, Longreads, Medium, and elsewhere. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling Heart Berries: A Memoir. She serves as faculty at the Institute of American Indian Arts and she's a Tecumseh Postdoctoral Fellow at Purdue University.
Angela Flournoy is the author of The Turner House, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and aNew York Times Notable Book of the Year. The novel was also a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and an NAACP Image Award. She is a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" Honoree for 2015. Flournoy was the 2016-17 Rona Jaffe Foundation Fellow at the New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. She most recently taught at Princeton University.
About I Am America
This event is part of I Am America, a conversation series about what it means to be a part of these (sometimes) United States, presented by The Center for Fiction and The Greene Space at WNYC.
*Please note that all ticket sales are through WNYC. Thank you!
Venue: The Greene Space
44 Charlton Street, New York, NY
(corner of Varick Street)
June 6, 2018 / 6:30pm
Free + open to all
6:30PM Reception | 7PM Talk
Featuring Susan Crile, Angela Flournoy, and Jonathan Santlofer
Introduction by Sri Thakkilapati, ACLU of Ohio
It is imperative that the narratives we put forward illuminate rather than confound, elevate rather than suppress, and embrace rather than isolate. This dazzling volume [...] does just that.”
-Adam D. Weinberg, Alice Pratt Brown Director, Whitney Museum of American Art
A provocative, unprecedented anthology, IT OCCURS TO ME THAT I AM AMERICA mines the American experience to draw out fundamental ideals of a free, just, and compassionate democracy. The book features original short stories by today’s most celebrated authors alongside artworks by the country’s most acclaimed artists. We invite you to join editor Jonathan Santlofer as he moderates a conversation with fellow author Angela Flournoy and Cleveland-born artist Susan Crile. Together, they will explore the state of our union and what role WE play in “We the People.”
IT OCCURS TO ME THAT I AM AMERICA was published by Touchstone/Simon & Schuster in support of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) upon the one-year anniversary of the Presidential Inauguration and the Women’s March on Washington. The book will be available for purchase in The MOCA Store during this event. A cash bar public reception will precede the talk.
COST: Free | WHEN: 05/15/18 @ 7:00pm | WHERE: 126 Crosby St. New York, NY, 10012
“A Lucky Man is just one of those collections that takes your breath away: the voices we hear, the people we meet, they scratch and pull and ache and rage, revealing secrets we usually keep hidden. Every line is pitch perfect. Jamel Brinkley is a writer of extraordinary talent.”
—Daniel Alarcón, author of The King is Always Above the People
In the nine expansive, searching stories of A Lucky Man, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relationships with friends and family members and confront mistakes made in the past. An imaginative young boy from the Bronx goes swimming with his group from day camp at a backyard pool in the suburbs, and faces the effects of power and privilege in ways he can barely grasp. A teen intent on proving himself a man through the all-night revel of J’ouvert can’t help but look out for his impressionable younger brother. A pair of college boys on the prowl follow two girls home from a party and have to own the uncomfortable truth of their desires. And at a capoeira conference, two brothers grapple with how to tell the story of their family, caught in the dance of their painful, fractured history.
Jamel Brinkley’s stories, in a debut that announces the arrival of a significant new voice, reflect the tenderness and vulnerability of black men and boys whose hopes sometimes betray them, especially in a world shaped by race, gender, and class—where luck may be the greatest fiction of all.
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Jamel Brinkley is the author of A Lucky Man: Stories (Graywolf Press/A Public Space Books). His fiction has appeared, or is forthcoming, in The Best American Short Stories 2018, A Public Space, Ploughshares, Gulf Coast, The Threepenny Review, Glimmer Train, American Short Fiction, Epiphany, and LitMag. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he was also the 2016-17 Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. His work has received support from Kimbilio Fiction, the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, the Tin House Summer Workshop, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Beginning this fall, he will be a 2018-2020 Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University.
Angela Flournoy is the author of The Turner House, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times notable book of the year. The novel was also a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and an NAACP Image Award. She is a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" Honoree for 2015. Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, and she has written for The New York Times, The Nation, The Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Flournoy received her undergraduate degree from the University of Southern California. She has taught at the University of Iowa, The New School and Columbia University. Flournoy was the 2016-17 Rona Jaffe Foundation Fellow at the New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. She currently teaches at Princeton University.
For more information, visit HousingWorks at: https://www.housingworks.org/events/a-lucky-man-jamel-brinkley-angela-flournoy
Angela will be joining the students of Bryn Mawr in the Goodhart Music Room on campus for an evening of reading, informal Q+A and book signing! This reading is free and open to the public.
Address: Bryn Mawr College | 101 North Merion Ave Bryn Mawr, PA 19010-2899
Please join Angela Flournoy (novelist and author of the introduction of NOT WITHOUT LAUGHTER), Doreen St. Felix (New Yorker staff writer) and Chris Jackson (publisher of One World and Editor-In-Chief at Random House) for an evening to celebrate Langston Hughes’ legacy at the Langston Hughes House in Harlem where the author lived and wrote during the last twenty years of his life.
Largely autobiographical, NOT WITHOUT LAUGHTER is the coming of age novel of a young black boy growing up in racially divided rural Kansas in the 1930s. With echoes of current headlines from Ferguson, Chicago, and Saint Paul, it captures the plight of a young black man (and, subsequently, an entire community) attempting to survive in the face of institutionalized inequality.
This event is free and open to the public (over 21). Wine will be served.
Address: Langston Hughes House | 20 E 127th St, New York, New York 10035
Join us for an evening of panel reading with Angela Flournoy at The Strand bookstore in Manhattan.
Address: 828 Broadway, Manhattan, NY 10003-4805
Egg's Table of Contents Culinary Reading Series!
Angela is excited to be taking part in Egg's culinary reading series alongside Carmen Maria Machado. Join us for a culinary reading, Q/A with the authors, and books sold by WORD in house!
109 N 3rd St, Brooklyn NY 11249 (between Berry & Wythe)
The Raymond Carver Reading Series features twelve to fourteen prominent writers yearly as part of a large undergraduate class taught by TAs from the Creative Writing Program. The readings have an extended Question and Answer session along with a reading. The public is welcome to attend. Recent authors include Gary Lutz, Sam Lipsyte, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Terrance Hayes, C.K. Williams and Lydia Davis.
Angela will be Syracuse University's Daniel and Jane Present Lecturer for the Raymond Carver Fall Series Reading. See SU's corresponding Arts & Literature article here!
Click here for more information on the reading series.
Reading and Q&A presented by the Program in Creative Writing at the College of New Rochelle.
Jack Jones Literary Arts is hosting its first annual writing retreat at SMU-in-Taos in Taos, New Mexico. This two-week retreat will be held October 12- 26, 2017, and is open exclusively to women of color. Angela is the 2017 Jack Jones Retreat Writer-in-Residence in Fiction.
"An Evening with the Iowa Writers' Workshop," at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Angela will be participating in the panel and reading. The Workshop is planning to Co-Sponsor the evening event with the Howard Alumni Association.
Click here to learn more!
Join us in the Browsing Room (First floor), Founders Library @ Howard University
Address: 500 Howard Pl NW, Washington, DC 20059
At Reparations, Live!, Morgan Parker invites some of today’s brightest thinkers and makers to tell us what America owes them, and brainstorm the infinite paths to getting paid. Angela will be a guest alongside Michael Arceneaux, Angel Nafis and Nate Marshall.
In conversation with Hannah Tinti at the auditorium at St. Francis College (downtown Brooklyn on Remsen Street).
Angela will be teaching a workshop at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. For more information and to register, click here. Use promo code FACULTY for $100 off tuition.
Meet & Greet with Conversation about The Turner House.
Meet & Greet with Conversation about The Turner House at the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute.
Meet & Greet with Conversation about The Turner House.
Meet & Greet with Conversation about The Turner House.