Jon Stewart & Michael Kosta Host THE DAILY SHOW This Week
by Michael Major
- Feb 26, 2024
Stewart will continue to host every Monday through the 2024 election cycle with The Daily Show’s all-star roster of correspondents and contributors sharing hosting duties, including Ronny Chieng, Desi Lydic, Jordan Klepper and Michael Kosta alongside Dulcé Sloan and Lewis Black.
Adelaide Writers' Week 2023 Programme Announced, Truth Be Told
by Stephi Wild
- Feb 8, 2023
For the 38th Adelaide Writers' Week, writers from around the world will come together in the Pioneer Women's Memorial Gardens to celebrate the art and craft of writing: from the issues that keep us awake at night, to the finer points of grammar, as they explore the theme Truth Be Told.
CAP UCLA Presents Andrew Sean Greer In Conversation With Sloane Crosley
by A.A. Cristi
- Sep 19, 2019
UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA) presents Andrew Sean Greer In Conversation with Sloane Crosley on Sunday, November 3 at 5 p.m. at Royce Hall. Tickets for $28a?'$49 are available now at cap.ucla.edu, 310-825-2101 and the Royce Hall box office.
CAP UCLA Presents Samin Nosrat In Conversation With Lindy West
by A.A. Cristi
- Sep 9, 2019
UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA) presents Samin Nosrat in Conversation with Lindy West on Sunday, October 13 at 7 p.m. at Royce Hall. Tickets for $28a?"$79 are available now at cap.ucla.edu, 310-825-2101, and the Royce Hall box office.
OFF ASSIGNMENT Launches Online
by Christina Mancuso
- Sep 6, 2016
Off Assignment, a magazine of literary travel writing, recently launched the first of its online content, answering the demand for authors to enhance their published work with compelling experiences and details left unsaid. Forged by today's top journalists, essayists, and travel writers, Off Assignment is a publication dedicated to candid storytelling. The magazine, which grew out of a grassroots series of live storytelling events featuring writers such as Gay Talese and Sloane Crosley, now publishes a weekly series called 'Letter to a Stranger,' short essays about memorable strangers from past journeys. In its first weeks, the series has featured contributors such as New York Times bestselling authors Leslie Jamison and Lauren Groff, as well as memoirist Howard Axelrod and National Book Award winner Julia Glass.
Bookworks Presents Shelf Awareness for Readers: History Reimagined
by BWW News Desk
- Nov 23, 2015
During Sloane Crosley's very funny event atElliott Bay Book Co. to promote The Clasp(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $26), she remarked on what's next for her. 'Back to essays,' she said, as she's already started writing them. And because she's under contract for them, she added with a laugh. The author of I Was Told There'd Be Cake went on to say that she really enjoys writing essays since she can rely on, you know, real life instead of making everything up, as she did for the novel.
Ashbury Honored at Brooklyn Book Festival
by Nicole Rosky
- Sep 13, 2010
RENOWNED POET JOHN ASHBERY HONORED AT FIFTH ANNUAL BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL Pulitzer Prize winner Ashbery receives annual Brooklyn Book Festival 'BoBi' Award on Saturday, 9/11 and appears on Sunday 9/12 in conversation with author Paul Auster
Photo Flash: Brooklyn Book Festival Brings out Bibliophiles
by Nicole Rosky
- Sep 13, 2010
On Sunday, September 12, 2010, the fifth annual Brooklyn Book Festival, one of the top book festivals in the country, brought out thousands of book lovers to Downtown Brooklyn. With the extraordinary literary heritage, vibrant publishing community and international reading audience of Brooklyn and New York City as its backdrop, the Festival offered the best and brightest stars in contemporary literature. The hip, huge and free all-star literary lineup included Salman Rushdie, Naomi Klein, Paul Auster, Venus Williams, Nelson George, Sarah Silverman, Gary Shteyngart, Mary Gaitskill, John Ashbery, Rosanne Cash, Paul Krugman, Colson Whitehead, Francine Prose, Dennis Lehane, Per Petterson, Esmeralda Santiago, Pete Hamill, Jennifer Egan, Russell Banks, Michael Connelly, John Hodgman, Kristen Schaal, Sam Lipsyte, Sloane Crosley, Maaza Mengiste, Paul Harding, Amy Goodman, Marlon James, Sarah MacLean, Jean Valentine, Elizabeth Nunez and many more, as well as children's and young adult lit stars like Rebecca Stead, Sara Shepard, Jacqueline Woodson, Jon Scieszka, Jenny Han, Nina Crews, Mac Barnett, Tad Hills, Chris Raschka, Michael Rex, Matthew Reinhart and Francisco X. Stork.
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