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SUMMARY:Read Up Richmond: Featuring Marlon James with Njelle Hamilton
DESCRIPTION:Richmond Public Library is proud to present our fourth annual 
 Read Up Richmond event featuring Booker Prize winner Marlon James in 
 conversation with Njelle Hamilton\, Associate Professor of Literature at 
 the University of Virginia. The event will be followed by an audience Q&A 
 books will be available for purchase and signing at the event.\n\nThe event 
 will also be livestreamed via the Library's YouTube Channel: 
 rvalibrary.info/YouTube (Attendees are not required to register if viewing 
 virtually.)\n\nMarlon James was born in Jamaica in 1970. He is the author 
 of the New York Times-bestseller Black Leopard\, Red Wolf\, which was a 
 finalist for the National Book Award for fiction in 2019. His novel A Brief 
 History of Seven Killings won the 2015 Man Booker Prize. It was also a 
 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the OCM Bocas 
 Prize for Caribbean Literature for fiction\, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award 
 for fiction\, and the Minnesota Book Award. It was also a New York Times 
 Notable Book. James is also the author of The Book of Night Women\, which 
 won the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Minnesota Book Award\, and 
 was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction 
 and an NAACP Image Award. His first novel\, John Crow’s Devil\, was a 
 finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for first fiction and the 
 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize\, and was a New York Times Editors’ Choice. 
 James divides his time between Minnesota and New York.\n\nDr. Hamilton is 
 Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies at the University of 
 Virginia\, and the book review editor of Anthurium Caribbean Studies 
 Journal. The author of Phonographic Memories: Popular Music and the 
 Contemporary Caribbean Novel (Rutgers 2019)\, Hamilton specializes in 20th 
 and 21st century Caribbean literary and cultural studies\, with particular 
 focus on narrative theory and fiction craft. Her essays on sound studies\, 
 trauma theory\, and the physics of time have appeared in Anthurium\, 
 Journal of West Indian Literature\, sx salon\, and Critical Perspectives on 
 Indo-Caribbean Women’s Literature\, while her short fiction has been 
 published in Centripetal and Pree Lit. She is working on two projects: a 
 novel\; and a monograph tentatively titled The Physics of Caribbean Time\, 
 which embraces storytelling as method and form to explore the alternative 
 clocks and narrative forms that might more accurately render how Caribbean 
 people experience time.\n\nRead Up Richmond challenges people to read 
 differently\, to read outside one’s own lived experience to develop an 
 understanding of the world. This program is an opportunity for people from 
 different walks of life to come together in the library to learn together\, 
 to enter into a conversation with the larger community\, to share the same 
 space\, making Richmond a more connected\, more civil place. This program 
 is made possible through the generous support of the Richmond Public 
 Library Foundation and the Friends of the Richmond Public Library.
LOCATION:Auditorium - Main Library
ORGANIZER;CN="Jenn Deuell":MAILTO:jennifer.deuell@richmondgov.com
CATEGORIES:Author Visit, RPL 100
CONTACT;CN="Jenn Deuell":MAILTO:jennifer.deuell@richmondgov.com
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