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SUMMARY:Percival Everett Delivers Bauder Lecture at CAALS
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the 36th Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series (CAALS)\, featuring acclaimed novelist Percival Everett\, the 2024 National Book Award winner for Fiction.\nPercival Everett will deliver the prestigious Bauder Lecture in the Marygrove Theatre. As the latest distinguished guest in Marygrove Conservancy’s lecture series\, Everett will read from his works\, discuss his literary career\, and engage with audience questions. \nEverett is the author of 24 novels\, including Erasure\, which was adapted into the award-winning film American Fiction. His most recent novel\, James\, is a New York Times best-seller that reinterprets Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of the runaway slave Jim. He has received over a dozen major literary awards\, cementing his place as one of the most celebrated contemporary American authors. \nYou can watch Percival Everett’s Bauder Lecture on May 7th\, 2025 at 8PM ET on the PBS Books YouTube channel. \nExplore more with Percival Everett\n July 2024 Readers Club Pick: James – Check out our exclusive conversation with Percival Everett about his bestselling novel here. \n Can’t wait for the lecture? Experience Everett’s literary impact firsthand by exploring his body of work\, including James\, Erasure\, and So Much Blue.
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SUMMARY:Author Talk: "Tell Me Everything" by Elizabeth Strout
DESCRIPTION:PBS Books will highlight Mental Health Awareness month with a conversation with New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Strout about her book Tell Me Everything. \nJoin us for this conversation on May 21st at 8PM ET on Facebook\, YouTube\, and the PBS app. \nTell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout explores the complexities of human relationships against the backdrop of a murder investigation in Crosby\, Maine. The novel delves into the lives of its beloved characters\, including Lucy Barton and Olive Kitteridge\, as they navigate friendship\, love\, and the search for meaning in their lives. Through poignant storytelling\, Strout captures the essence of connection and the impact of shared experiences on our understanding of life. \nAbout the Author\nElizabeth Strout \nElizabeth Strout was born in Portland\, Maine\, and grew up in small towns in Maine and New Hampshire.  From a young age she was drawn to writing things down\, keeping notebooks that recorded the quotidian details of her days.  She was also drawn to books\, and spent hours of her youth in the local library lingering among the stacks of fiction.  During the summer months of her childhood she played outdoors\, either with her brother\, or\, more often\, alone\, and this is where she developed her deep and abiding love of the physical world: the seaweed covered rocks along the coast of Maine\, and the woods of New Hampshire with its hidden wildflowers. \nDuring her adolescent years\, Strout continued writing avidly\, having conceived of herself as a writer from early on.  She read biographies of writers\, and was already studying – on her own – the way American writers\, in particular\, told their stories.  Poetry was something she read and memorized; by the age of sixteen was sending out stories to magazines.  Her first story was published when she was twenty-six. \nStrout attended Bates College\, graduating with a degree in English in 1977.  Two years later\, she went to Syracuse University College of Law\, where she received a law degree along with a Certificate in Gerontology.  She worked briefly for Legal Services\, before moving to New York City\, where she became an adjunct in the English Department of Borough of Manhattan Community College.  By this time she was publishing more stories in literary magazines and Redbook and Seventeen.  Juggling the needs that came with raising a family and her teaching schedule\, she found a few hours each day to work on her writing. \nAbout the Host\nHeather-Marie Montilla \nHeather-Marie Montilla\, a dynamic integrative leader\, is an educator and nonprofit manager. She has worked in the nonprofit sector and libraries for over two decades\, making a positive impact in arts\, cultural\, educational\, and community-building arenas. \nHaving joined the PBS Books team as their Library Bureau Chief in Fall 2018\, Montilla is now the National Director of PBS Books and has interviewed more than 150 writers. In addition\, she is a faculty member at Michigan State University and Eastern Michigan University for their Arts and Cultural/Entertainment Management Programs. Having been an Executive Director for 8 years\, Heather has a wide range of experience in management\, finance\, strategic planning\, marketing\, and fundraising. Heather holds a MPA From Columbia University\, a MLIS from Wayne State University\, and a bachelor’s from Duke University. She lives in Chicagoland\, and is married with four children\, a dog\, and a bird.
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SUMMARY:PBS Books Readers Club - "We All Live Here" by Jojo Moyes
DESCRIPTION:PBS Books Readers Club welcomes international and New York Times best-selling author Jojo Moyes to discuss her brand-new novel We All Live Here. This episode premieres May 28th at 8PM ET on Facebook\, YouTube\, and the PBS app. \nLila Kennedy’s life is in chaos. Her marriage is over\, her two daughters are acting out\, her house is falling apart\, and her elderly stepfather seems to have moved in. She is struggling to maintain some semblance of a career\, and her love life is anything but simple. So\, when her estranged father- who vanished to Hollywood 35 years ago- shows up at her house\, Lila thinks she can’t take any more. However\, Lila soon discovers that even the most complicated relationships can teach you profound lessons about love and what it truly means to be family. \nWe All Live Here is a heartfelt\, funny\, messy family drama that is full of surprises. It’s a reminder that even the family we think we can’t forgive may have something to teach us about love. \nPBS Watch-Alike: Caregiving\nThis new documentary executive produced by Bradley Cooper is set to premiere on PBS on June 24th at 9p.m. ET. As the aging baby boomer generation and increasing life expectancy put immense pressure on caregiving in America\, the nation’s long-term care system is on the brink of crisis. This film humanizes this pressing national issue by sharing stories from caregivers and featuring interviews with experts who are working tirelessly to ensure that caregivers receive the security and support they so selflessly offer to others. \n About the AuthorJojo Moyes \nJojo Moyes is a #1 New York Times bestselling novelist and screenwriter whose beloved books have captivated readers around the world. Her works include the global bestseller Me Before You\, along with its sequels After You and Still Me\, as well as The Giver of Stars\, Someone Else’s Shoes\, The One Plus One\, and the short story collection Paris for One and Other Stories. Her novels have been translated into 46 languages\, have topped charts in 12 countries\, and have sold over 57 million copies worldwide. Me Before You alone has sold more than 15 million copies and was adapted into a major motion picture starring Emilia Clarke and Sam Claflin. \nJojo’s work has been featured in Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club and the Richard and Judy Book Club. She is also part of the BBC Maestro platform\, where she teaches a course on Writing Love Stories. In addition to her fiction\, Moyes is an accomplished screenwriter and a former journalist. She lives in London\, England. \n About the Hosts\nPrincess Weekes\nPrincess Weekes is an award winning writer and video essayist who works at breaking down the intersections between race\, gender\, and pop culture. Formally an Assistant Editor at The Mary Sue\, co-host of Netflix’s The Geeked Podcast\, and co-host and co-writer on the PBS Digital Series It’s Lit. On weekends she works as a bookseller at a local bookstore. When not reading or writing she can be found playing TTRPGs of cuddling with her cat\, Lola. \n\n\nLauren Smith\nExecutive Producer and host of national PBS programming at Detroit PBS\, Lauren develops content for PBS and other distributors of public media for broadcast\, streaming\, and other digital channels and has executive-produced and/or produced over 60 national broadcast and programs. Her passion is to develop inspiring\, entertaining\, and educational content alongside the best national and international talent\, and to engage important content with communities across the country. Lauren loves to read and has worked to develop and produce PBS Books content for nearly ten years!
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