From noon on Wednesday, Feb 20, until noon Thursday, Feb 21, 110 kind and generous souls put their trust in us by donating their hard earned money towards our shared vision: “To cast ripples of imagination and expression. To respect language, perspective, belief, identity, and human experience. All human experience. To draw closer to one another. To understand.” And we all understand that one way (the best way, in our opinion) to do this is through a shared love of books,… [Read More]
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Meet and Greet: Devil in a Blue Dress
It’s the 1940s in Los Angeles – and Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, a World War II veteran turned Private Investigator, is off an on adventure after the wealthy Todd Carter pays him to find his missing girlfriend, Daphne Monet. Not so much “whodunit” as “whydunit”, the story is buried in society’s consciousness of racial interactions of the time. On Saturday, March 16 at both 1:00 p.m. & 6:00 p.m., the Tarlton Theatre will be showing the neo-noir classic film Devil in… [Read More]
The #BestBook a Teacher Ever Assigned Me
by Jennie Young When our high school English teacher announced that in his class we would not read literature but instead study and analyze Pink Floyd’s album The Wall, we decided he was for-sure crazy. We’d suspected he was crazy for quite some time, but this seemed to confirm it. We were game, because, even as teenagers, we recognized that there was brilliance beneath his eccentricity. We didn’t always understand what he was talking about, but we also never… [Read More]
#AuthorTalk: Andrea Gibson, Poet and Activist
by Ami Maxine Irmen It’s been nearly a decade since I first heard the name Andrea Gibson. They were coming to the town I was living in at the time, and a friend insisted that we all needed to see them perform. I was relatively new to the world of performance poetry and had only just begun to scratch the surface of what the concept of identity meant to me. After seeing Andrea Gibson, I dove head first… [Read More]
The #BestBook a Teacher Ever Assigned Me
by Ami Maxine Irmen In October of 2007, I was in my second year of grad school – and my thesis advisor said to me, “You have to read Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison, and you have two weeks to do it. She’s coming to campus, and I’m signing you up for her talk.” Not gonna lie – my initial response was not a favorable one. On top of everything else I had to get done for… [Read More]