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A Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Event

The Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, CUNY

Presents

“My Soul to Take”

A Literary Salon: Book Reading, Discussion,

Refreshments and Spirits

with Tananarive Due

Saturday, September 17, 2011

3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

 

MoCADA (Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art)

80 Hanson Place MAP

Brooklyn, New York 11217

Train: 2, 3, 4, 5, B, D, N, Q or R to Atlantic Ave., C to Lafayette Ave., G to Fulton St.

Donation: 

$10 per person –general donation

$25 per person – includes book purchase

 

All are welcomed. This event is a fund raiser for the Center for Black Literature. Books available on-site. To make advanced (on-line) donations, please click here.

 

Tananarive Due is the American Book Award-winning novelist of nine books, ranging from supernatural thrillers to a mystery to a civil rights memoir. She is the author of “The Living Blood”, “Joplin’s Ghost”, “My Soul to Keep.” Her new novel, “My Soul to Take”, continues the conflict between mortals and immortals in a thoughtful near-future supernatural suspense tale, the fourth in the African Immortals series (after 2008's “Blood Colony”).

 

 

Learn more about the Brooklyn Book Festival – Sunday, September 18, 2011

http://www.brooklynbookfestival.org/BBF/Home

 

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80 Hanson Pl. Brooklyn, NY 11217 MAP

T: 718.230.0492 | F: 718.230.0246 | E: info@mocada.org

www.mocada.org

The Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, CUNY,
the John Oliver Killens Reading Series
Presents

A Book Signing and Discussion with Author and Activist Randall Robinson

Monday, October 3, 2011
6:30 p.m.

Randall Robinson is an internationally recognized author and human rights and foreign policy activist. His latest work is the novel Makeda, published by Akashic Books/Open Lens. Robinson is the author of An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, from Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President and the national best-sellers Quitting America: The Departure of a Black Man from His Native Land, The Reckoning: What Blacks Owe to Each Other, and The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks.

Edison O. Jackson Auditorium
Academic Complex Building (AB1)
1638 Bedford Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11225
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The Eleventh National Black Writers Conference

SAVE THE DATE!

March 29 – April 1, 2012
"The Impact of Migration, Popular Culture and the Natural
Environment in the Literature of Black Writers"

Funding provided by: National Endowment for the Arts & New York
Council of the Humanities
Media support provided by: African American Literature Book Club, AKILA Worksongs, Inc.

2012 NBWC Awardees

Ishmael Reed – John Oliver Killens Lifetime Achievement Award Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o – W. E. B. Du Bois Award
Dr. Howard Dodson – Ida B. Wells Institution Building Award

Nikki Giovanni - Gwendolyn Brooks Award

For a full description of the National Black Writers Conference, Program, Registration, and Sponsors please visit: http://www.nationalblackwritersconference.org/home.html

Medgar Evers College
Center for Black Literature, CUNY
1650 Bedford Ave.
Brooklyn, New York | 11225