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Winter With the Writers
2020 Season
Our 2020 season features Kristen Arnett, Claudia Rankine and two finalists for the 2019 National Book Awards.
February 27, 2020
Joint Reading with the two NBA Finalists, Kali Fajardo-Anstine and Ilya Kaminsky
Speakers
February 13, 2020Kristen Arnett: ReadingArnett is a queer fiction and essay writer and the New York Times bestselling author of the novel Mostly Dead Things (TinHouse), which debuted in June 2019. It was a Most Anticipated book at The Boston Globe, Oprah Magazine, Esquire, Nylon, Buzzfeed, HuffPost, and Bustle.
February 20, 2020Claudia Rankine: ReadingRankine is a Jamaican-born American poet and playwright, the author of five collections of poetry, two plays and the editor of several anthologies. She also co-produces a video series, “The Situation,” alongside John Lucas, and is the founder of the Open Letter Project: Race and the Creative Imagination.
February 27, 2020Joint Reading with the two NBA Finalists, Kali Fajardo-Anstine and Ilya Kaminsky