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Lisa Ko | Miami Book Fair 2017
Lisa Ko is the author of THE LEAVERS, a novel that won the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Set in New York and China, THE LEAVERS follows one young man's search for his mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant who disappears when he's 11 years old, after which he is adopted by a white family. It's the story of one mother and her son: what brings them together and takes them apart.
Kelly Corrigan in conversation with Leigh Haber | Random House Off the Page
Bestselling memoirist Kelly Corrigan (TELL ME MORE) speaks with Leigh Haber (Books Editor at O, The Oprah Magazine), and explores twelve phrases that can make us better people. Filmed at the Random House Open House in New York City, 11/9/17.
Pushcart Prize XLII
The Writers Studio and Pushcart Prize editor Bill Henderson celebrate the release of the 2018 “Best of the Small Presses” anthology.

Three celebrated writers read a few of their pieces and discuss their contributions to the latest edition of the acclaimed series.

Readers, in order of appearance:

Jai Chakrabarti

Chase Twichell (Horses Where The Answers Should Have Been)

Jim Shepard (The World To Come)
Danielle Allen: 2017 National Book Festival
Danielle Allen launches her new book "Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A" at the 2017 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.

Speaker Biography: Danielle Allen is a professor and political theorist who has published extensively on democratic theory, political sociology and the history of political thought. Her work as a classicist and political scientist has examined justice and citizenship in ancient Athens and modern America. Some of Allen's publications are "The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens," "Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education," "Why Plato Wrote" and "Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality." Her latest book is the family memoir of Michael Alexander Allen, "Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A." Allen is a frequent public lecturer and contributor to The Washington Post, Boston Review, Democracy, Cabinet and The Nation. She is also the director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University.
Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith Inaugural Reading
Tracy K. Smith gave her inaugural reading as the 22nd Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. She was joined by National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman, who opened the event with an original poem.

Speaker Biography: Tracy K. Smith was born in Falmouth, Mass. in 1972 and raised in Fairfield, Calif. She is the author of three books of poetry, including "Life on Mars," winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; "Duende," winner of the 2006 James Laughlin Award and the 2008 Essence Literary Award; and "The Body's Question," winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Smith is also the author of a memoir, "Ordinary Light," a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in Nonfiction and selected as a Notable Book by The New York Times and The Washington Post. Her fourth poetry collection, "Wade in the Water," will be published in 2018.
Jeffrey Eugenides
Jeffrey Eugenides reads “Airmail,” from his newly published collection Fresh Complaint, then takes audience questions.

An astute observer of the crises of adolescence, sexual identity, self-discovery, family love and what it means to be an American in our times, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jeffrey Eugenides (Middlesex, The Marriage Plot) now publishes Fresh Complaint, his first story collection. “He is a big and big-hearted talent: generous to his readers in telling stories that unfailingly entertain and generous to his characters,” wrote Jonathan Franzen.
Shea Serrano | Basketball (and Other Things)
Sportswriter Shea Serrano and friends convene to take your questions on basketball (and other things) to celebrate the release of Serrano’s new book.

Panelists, from left to right: Shea Serrano, Jason Concepcion, Zach Lowe and Rembert Browne

In “Basketball (and Other Things)” Serrano takes you on a basketball-lover's journey through the highest highs of the game, to the lowest lows, and everything in between. He examines the most critical points in the game's history, such as the peak of MJ's career as the greatest player of all time, and breaks down some of the most beloved and heated debates in the fandom. Which NBA championship was most critical to the association's history? How do you rate shots from best to worst?

Regardless of whether you are a seasoned veteran, or a greenhorn just discovering the game, this authoritative anthology of legends, what-if's and stories is sure to earn it's place on your bookshelf from the first chapter.
Meet the key players in Trump–Russia scandal
Investigative reporter and bestselling author Luke Harding takes you through the key players in the Trump-Russia scandal.

MOSCOW, July 1987. Real-estate tycoon Donald Trump visits Soviet Russia for the first time at the invitation of the government.

LONDON, December 2016. Luke Harding meets former MI6 officer Christopher Steele to discuss the president-elect’s connections with Russia. Harding follows two leads; money and sex.

WASHINGTON, January 2017. Steele’s explosive dossier alleges that the Kremlin has been 'cultivating, supporting, and assisting' Trump for years and that they have compromising information about him. Trump responds on twitter, 'FAKE NEWS.'

In Collusion, award-winning journalist Luke Harding reveals the true nature of Trump’s decades-long relationship with Russia and presents the gripping inside story of the dossier. It features exclusive new material and draws on sources from the intelligence community.

Harding tells an astonishing story of offshore money, sketchy real-estate deals, a Miss Universe Pageant, mobsters, money laundering, hacking and Kremlin espionage. He shines a light on powerful Russian players like Aras Agalarov, Natalia Veselnitskaya and Sergey Kislyak, whose motivations and instructions may have come from Vladimir Putin himself. The special prosecutor, Robert Mueller, has already indicted several of the American protagonists, including Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort. More charges are likely as the crisis engulfs Trump’s administration.

This book gets to the heart of the biggest political scandal of the modern era. Russia is reshaping the world order to its advantage: this is something that should trouble us all.
Daniel Ellsberg Reveals He was a Nuclear War Planner, Warns of Nuclear Winter
Could tension between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un bring us to the brink of nuclear war? As tensions ramp up, we discuss what nuclear war would look like with a former nuclear war planner and one of the world’s most famous whistleblowers—Daniel Ellsberg. In 1971, Ellsberg was a high-level defense analyst when he leaked a top-secret report on U.S. involvement in Vietnam to The New York Times and other publications, which came to be known as the Pentagon Papers. He played a key role in ending the Vietnam War. Few know Ellsberg was also a Pentagon and White House consultant who drafted plans for nuclear war. His new book, published Tuesday, is titled “The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner.” We speak with Ellsberg about his top-secret nuclear studies, his front row seat to the Cuban missile crisis, whether Trump could start a nuclear war and how contemporary whistleblowers Chelsea Manning and Ed Snowden are his heroes.
Van Jones in conversation with S.E. Cupp | Random House Off the Page
Van Jones (CNN commentator and author of BEYOND THE MESSY TRUTH) proposes ways to find your voice in today’s cluttered political climate. Moderated by political commentator S. E. Cupp. Filmed at Random House Off the Page in New York City, 11/9/17.
The End of Policing – book launch and discussion
Book launch for Alex S. Vitale’s “The End of Policing,” and a conversation with a panel of activists about how the book relates to their organzing work to end police violence.

Featuring Alex S. Vitale, Josmar Trujillo, Dante Barry, Melissa Gira Grant, Keegan Stephan. Moderated by Sarah Jaffe.
David Neiwert & Joe Conason | Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right
Investigative journalist David Neiwert talks with Joe Conason about his new book Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump.

David Neiwert has made a name for himself by reporting on political and cultural extremists for over two decades. Now, in a time where so many Americans are mystified and alarmed by the seeming "revival" of xenophobic organizations and hate groups, Neiwert has compiled the results of his journalistic findings into one book. Alt America: the Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump examines the factors playing into the greater level of visibility afforded to the people who have come to be known as the Alt-Right in contemporary America. He traces the resurgence of far-right political ideology to the 1990's, and later, 9/11. Nurtured by right-wing radio, TV, and now the president, these groups have more leniency now than in the past 20 years.

Joe Conason is editor-in-chief of The National Memo and an editor at The Investigative Fund. One of the country's most popular political columnists. Conason authored two New York Times best selling books, The Hunting of the President and Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine. His newest book, Man of the World, focuses on the post-presidency of Bill Clinton.
Poet Antjie Krog
South African poet & writer Antjie Krog discussed and read from her work.

Speaker Biography: Antjie Krog has won major awards in poetry, journalism, fiction and translation. Her work has been translated into English, Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish, Swedish and Serbian. Krog has translated Nelson Mandela's autobiography "Long Walk to Freedom," works by Henk van Woerden and Tom Lanoye, as well as a selection of South African verse written in the indigenous African languages into Afrikaans. This was followed by a reworking of narratives in the extinct language /Xam into Afrikaans poems in "Die Sterre Se 'tsau'" and English poems in "The Stars Say 'tsau'."
Edwidge Danticat: The Art of Death
Writers are told to "write what you know," yet death is ultimately unknowable. We can witness the moment right before, but the next reality remains elusive and writers unavoidably focus on life. Two-time National Book Award finalist Edwidge Danticat comes to CHF to discuss her astute and intimate The Art of Death, a personal account of her mother's death from cancer and a deeply considered reckoning of how other writers, from Toni Morrison to C.S. Lewis, have approached death in their own work. Tracie Hall Director of Culture Program at the Joyce Foundation, joins Danticat for this profound and moving discussion.
Siva Vaidhyanathan: Belief in the Age of Social Media
To what extent do the wiles of computer algorithms influence our worldview? If social media flattens our political discourse, how can citizens in a democracy engage in dialogue? “Echo chambers,” “filter bubbles”—whatever we call them, we know that Google, Facebook, and Twitter mediate our consumption of the news. Media scholar Siva Vaidhyanathan comes to CHF for a probing discussion of the complex role technology and social media play in shaping our beliefs—and to offer some positive solutions.

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