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- Siri HustvedtBrooklyn-based Siri Hustvedt, the internationally acclaimed author of four essay collections, a book of poetry, a work of nonfiction and six novels, including "The Blazing World" (winner of the LA Book Prize), visits Berkeley Arts & Letters to read from her new novel, "Memories of the Future," about a Midwesterner's first year in NYC in […]
- Namwali Serpell with Michelle QuintThe Bindery hosts Namwali Serpell for the launch of her spectacular debut novel, "The Old Drift," set on the banks of the Zambezi River in a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. Three Zambian families--black, white, brown--collide over the course of the 20th century, into the present and beyond, into a richly imagined future. Serpell […]
- Salvatore Scibona"The Volunteer," the second novel by National Book Award Finalist Savatore Scibona ("The End"), begins when a small boy speaking an unknown language is abandoned by his father at an international airport. To make sense of this, the story returns to the moment, decades before, when a young Iowan enlists for the Marine Corps to […]