Details tbd: http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/words/the-jewish-world…ed-and-forgotten/,

Amanda Konkle will discuss her new book, Some Kind of Mirror, at the Skidaway Island Presbyterian Church. The event is affiliated with The Learning Center of Senior Citizens, Inc. Open to the public; it’s $15 for TLC members and $20 for visitors. Wine and cheese reception starts at 5pm (open to all).

The Book Lady Bookstore to provide books.

Michael Hoberman discusses his new book A Hundred Acres of America at the Buckland Public Library on March 5 at 6pm.

Join The Dark Eclipse author Andrew Barnes as he discusses his book alongside Brittany Ackerman, author of The Perpetual Motion Machine. 

https://www.left-bank.com/event/ackerman-barnes

A.W. Barnes discusses The Dark Eclipse at Time and Space Limited.
https://timeandspace.org/calendar/the-dark-eclipse/

Copies of The Dark Eclipse available at the TSL Book Space

The Dark Eclipse (Rutgers University Press) is a book of personal essays in which author A.W. Barnes seeks to come to terms with the suicide of his older brother, Mike. Using source documentation—police report, autopsy, suicide note, and death certificate—the essays explore Barnes’ relationship with Mike and their status as gay brothers raised in a large conservative family in the Midwest. In addition, the narrative traces the brothers’ difficult relationship with their father, a man who once studied to be a Trappist monk before marrying and fathering eight children. Because of their shared sexual orientation, Andrew hoped he and Mike would be close, but their relationship was as fraught as the author’s relationship with his other brothers and father. While the rest of the family seems to have forgotten about Mike, who died in 1993, Barnes has not been able to let him go. This book is his attempt to do so.

“The story Barnes weaves in this memoir–a story of suicidal desires and success, of what drives siblings apart and could, at turns, bring them back together–is a lyric noir of family instability, personal revelation, and queer inheritance both genealogical and literary….Our job, as Barnes beautifully demonstrates here, is to take the ashes of our lives—not only our lived lives, but our lives as readers, too—and sculpt them into a new art.”
–Lambda Literary (full review)

A.W. Barnes has a Ph.D. in English Literature and an MFA in Creative Writing. His nonfiction has appeared in Broad Street, The Away Journal, Gertrude Press, and Sheepshead Review. His academic book Post-Closet Masculinities in Early Modern Englandwas published by Bucknell University Press in 2009. He lives in New York City.

Therese Eiben is a faculty member of Philip Schultz’s Writers Studio and founding co-director of The Writers Studio / Hudson Valley branch. She is formerly the editor of Poets & Writers magazine and co-editor of a book of essays,The Practical Writer: From Inspiration to Publication (Penguin.) Her fiction has appeared in december magazine (Pushcart nom.) and The Alaska Quarterly Review, among other publications.

RACE, IDENTITY, & LIBERATION CONFERENCE
Transforming K-12 Public Education and the Academy for the Greater Good.

https://race-identity-liberation.carrd.co/

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/race-identity-liberation-conference-tickets-55794909075

Lecture in Budapest at the Central European University (cosponsored by History, Jewish Studies, Cultural Heritage Program) forThe Remembered and Forgotten Jewish World by Daniel J. Walkowitz. 

A reading, discussion, and reception featuring Richard Goldstone, Ethics Center International Advisory Board member and former chair; and Daniel Terris, Director Emeritus of the Ethics Center.

All are welcome. Refreshments will be served. Book sale and signing to follow the event.

This event is cosponsored by African and African American Studies, the Crown Center for Middle East Studies, International and Global Studies, Legal Studies, Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, and the Social Justice and Social Policy Program. For more information, please contact ethics@brandeis.edu.

http://www.brandeis.edu/ethics/events/index.html

Lecture at the Center for Urban History in Lviv, Ukraine for The Remembered and Forgotten Jewish World by Daniel J. Walkowitz.

Slavery's Descendants co-editor Dionne Ford will participate in a panel discussion at the Montclair Literary Festival. The book will be available for pre-sale.

Slavery’s Descendants: Shared Legacies of Race and Reconciliation.

This powerful anthology confronts the legacy of slavery, as contributors relate how they deal with America’s racial past through experience or family history. Editor Dionne Ford and contributor Karen Branan, author of The Family Tree: A Lynching in Georgia, a Legacy of Secrets, and My Search for the Truth, talks with Rachel Swarns, author of American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama.

Venue: The Guild Room at First Congregational Church

https://succeed2gether.org/mlf-main-program/

Join author Michael Hoberman as he discusses his new book A Hundred Acres of America at the Jewish Community of Amherst. https://jcamherst.org/