Sep
30
10:00pm
Always Coming Home: A Celebration of Ursula K. Le Guin (An Official Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Event)
By Kew and Willow Books
What can carry a story if not conflict, and how can an orientation towards non-violence shape the way a story is told? What can these alternatives offer us, as readers and as humans? This panel celebrates the radical non-violence found in both the form and content of Ursula K. Le Guin's work, and explores what these expansive possibilities open for us as we dream and write the future.
With Charlie Jane Anders, Tochi Onyebuchi, and William Alexander, moderated by Shruti Swamy.
This is an Official Brooklyn Book Festival Book Ends Event.
About the speakers:
William Alexander writes unrealisms for young readers. He won the National Book Award for his first novel, Goblin Secrets, and the Earphones Award for his reading of the audiobook. Honors for his other books include the Eleanor Cameron Award, the Teacher Favorites Award, the Librarian Favorites Award, two Junior Library Guild Selections, and two CBC Best Children's Book of the Year Awards. When he was very young he honestly believed that his Cuban family came from the lost island of Atlantis. Find him online at willalex.net.
Tochi Onyebuchi is the author of Goliath, which was named one of Time magazine’s “100 Must-Read Books of 2022,” as well as The Guardian’s five best science fiction and fantasy books of 2022. His previous fiction includes Riot Baby, winner of the New England Book Award for Fiction, an ALA Alex Award, and the World Fantasy Award; the Beasts Made of Night series; and the War Girls series. His short fiction has appeared in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, The Year’s Best Science Fiction, and elsewhere. His nonfiction includes the book (S)kinfolk and has appeared in The New York Times, NPR, and the Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy.
Charlie Jane Anders is hard at work on a new adult novel, tentatively called The Prodigal Mother. Most recently, she wrote the young adult Unstoppable trilogy: Victories Greater Than Death, Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak, and Promises Stronger Than Darkness. She's also the author of the short story collection Even Greater Mistakes, and Never Say You Can't Survive (August 2021), a book about how to use creative writing to get through hard times. Her other books include The City in the Middle of the Night and All the Birds in the Sky. She's won the Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, Lambda Literary, Crawford and Locus Awards. She co-created Escapade, a transgender superhero, for Marvel Comics and wrote her into the long-running New Mutants comic. And she's currently the science fiction and fantasy book reviewer for the Washington Post. Her TED Talk, "Go Ahead, Dream About the Future" got 700,000 views in its first week. With Annalee Newitz, she co-hosts the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct.
Shruti Swamy is the author of the story collection A House Is a Body, and a novel, The Archer. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Elizabeth George Foundation, the San Francisco Arts Council, and Vassar College, and is a 2024 Rome Prize Fellow in Literature. Shruti’s work has appeared in The Paris Review, McSweeny's, AFAR Magazine, and the New York Times, and twice won the O. Henry. Her introduction to Ursula K Le Guin’s masterpiece Always Coming Home appears in the novel’s 2023 reissue. She lives in San Francisco.
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