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SUMMARY:Vivian Gornick + Dani Shapiro + Darin Strauss - Aspen New York Book Series
DESCRIPTION:Join the Aspen Institute and Aspen Words for an evening featuring Vivian Gornick\, Dani Shapiro\, and Darin Strauss discussing the art of the memoir. Books by the authors will be available for purchase and signing.\nRSVP HERE\n\nVivian Gornick is an American critic\, journalist\, essayist\, and memoirist. Her work has appeared in The Village Voice\, The New York Times\, The Nation\, The Atlantic Monthly\, and many other publications. She has published eleven books; the most recent\, The Odd Woman and the City\, was published in May\, 2015. In 2014 she was the Bedell Distinguished Visiting Professor in Nonfiction at the University of Iowa. \n Dani Shapiro’s most recent books include the memoirs Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life\, and Devotion\, and the novels Black & White and Family History.  Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, Granta\, Tin House\, The Virginia Quarterly Review\, n+1\, One Story\, The New York Times Book Review\, The New York Times Op-Ed pages\, and many other publications\, and has been featured on “Oprah” and “This American Life.” \n\nDarin Strauss is a national- and internationally-bestselling author. His books have been New York Times\, Newsweek\, Los Angeles Times\, Chicago Tribune and NPR Best Books of the Year\, among other honors. He is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the Guggenheim Fellowship and numerous other prizes. Strauss recently began a stint as a recurring columnist on faith atSalon\, has written screenplays for Disney\, Gary Oldman\, and Julie Taylor. He is the Clinical Professor of Fiction at NYU’s creative writing program.  \n6:30 – 7:30 pm Program  7:30 – 8:00 pm Reception 
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/aspen-new-york-book-series-2/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Aspen New York Book Series
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SUMMARY:Reading & Talk with Marcia Butler
DESCRIPTION:Marcia Butler’s life has been driven by creativity. For 25 years she performed throughout the world as a professional oboist. She was hailed by the New York Times as “a first rate artist” and performed and recorded with such luminaries as pianist Andre Watts\, soprano Dawn Upshaw and jazz great Keith Jarrett. In 2002 Marcia switched careers and began her interior design firm\, Marcia Butler Interior Design. She has served well over 100 clients in twelve years and her design work has been published in shelter magazines. Now as an author\, her memoir The Skin Above My Knee was recently sold to Little\, Brown and Company\, with a release date of January 2017. She has published numerous personal essays in journals and online literary sites and is currently working on a novel. Marcia participated in Richard Russo’s Fiction workshop at Aspen Summer Words 2015 and lives in New York City. \nFree event\, open to the public.
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/reading-talk-with-marcia-butler/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Writers in Residence
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SUMMARY:Reading & Talk with Marcia Butler
DESCRIPTION:Marcia Butler’s life has been driven by creativity. For 25 years she performed throughout the world as a professional oboist. She was hailed by the New York Times as “a first rate artist” and performed and recorded with such luminaries as pianist Andre Watts\, soprano Dawn Upshaw and jazz great Keith Jarrett. In 2002 Marcia switched careers and began her interior design firm\, Marcia Butler Interior Design. She has served well over 100 clients in twelve years and her design work has been published in shelter magazines. Now as an author\, her memoir The Skin Above My Knee was recently sold to Little\, Brown and Company\, with a release date of January 2017. She has published numerous personal essays in journals and online literary sites and is currently working on a novel. Marcia participated in Richard Russo’s Fiction workshop at Aspen Summer Words 2015 and lives in New York City. \nFree event\, open to the public.
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/reading-talk-with-marcia-butler-2/
LOCATION:United States
CATEGORIES:Writers in Residence
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SUMMARY:ALOUD: High Altitude Poetry Jam
DESCRIPTION:Aspen Words is proud to bring poets and RFV favorites Logan Phillips and Myrlin Hepworth back to The Wheeler stage. Joined by Mercedez Holtry and youth from local schools\, this evening celebrates the power of the spoken word. FREE!
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/aloud-high-altitude-poetry-jam/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:ALOUD: High Altitude Poetry Jam
DESCRIPTION:Aspen Words is proud to bring poets and RFV favorites Logan Phillips and Myrlin Hepworth back to The Wheeler stage. Joined by Mercedez Holtry and youth from local schools\, this evening celebrates the power of the spoken word. FREE!
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/aloud-high-altitude-poetry-jam-2/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:Cumbia Dance Party
DESCRIPTION:Aspen Words presents DJ and spoken word artist\, Logan “Dirtyverbs” Phillips\, in a night of heart-pounding Latin music and dance. Following the Youth Poetry Slam at 6:30. FREE! ¡Entrada Gratis! ¡Invita a los amigos!
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/cumbia-dance-party/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:Cumbia Dance Party
DESCRIPTION:Aspen Words presents DJ and spoken word artist\, Logan “Dirtyverbs” Phillips\, in a night of heart-pounding Latin music and dance. Following the Youth Poetry Slam at 6:30. FREE! ¡Entrada Gratis! ¡Invita a los amigos!
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/cumbia-dance-party-2/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:Youth Poetry Slam
DESCRIPTION:This February\, poets Myrlin Hepworth\, Logan Phillips\, and Mercedez Holtry will inspire over 3\,000 local youth from 13 schools to tell their stories through the power of the spoken word. The result is this exhilarating night of Spoken Word Poetry created and performed by the youth of the Roaring Fork Valley.  If you’re looking for inspiration\, don’t miss this. \nRegistration for young poets begins at 5:30 and is open to all RFV 7th – 12th graders.\nWinners will perform with Myrlin\, Logan\, and Mercedez at The Wheeler on February 28. \nStay for the Cumbia dance party at 9:00!
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/youth-poetry-slam/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:Youth Poetry Slam
DESCRIPTION:This February\, poets Myrlin Hepworth\, Logan Phillips\, and Mercedez Holtry will inspire over 3\,000 local youth from 13 schools to tell their stories through the power of the spoken word. The result is this exhilarating night of Spoken Word Poetry created and performed by the youth of the Roaring Fork Valley.  If you’re looking for inspiration\, don’t miss this. \nRegistration for young poets begins at 5:30 and is open to all RFV 7th – 12th graders.\nWinners will perform with Myrlin\, Logan\, and Mercedez at The Wheeler on February 28. \nStay for the Cumbia dance party at 9:00!
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/youth-poetry-slam-6/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:George Packer
DESCRIPTION:George Packer is a staff writer for the New Yorker and the author of The Unwinding\, which won the 2013 National Book Award for Nonfiction. His earlier book\, The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq\, was named one of the ten best books of 2005 by The New York Times Book Review. He is also the author of two novels\, The Half Man and Central Square\, and two other works of nonfiction\, Blood of the Liberals\, which won the 2001 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award\, and The Village of Waiting. His play\, Betrayed\, ran off-Broadway for five months in 2008 and won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play. He has contributed numerous articles\, essays\, and reviews to the New York Times Magazine\, Mother Jones\, Harper’s and other publications. \n“A brilliant and innovative book that transcends journalism to become literature.”—Bookforum \n[The Unwinding] hums—with sorrow\, with outrage and with compassion . . .” “[Packer has] written something close to a nonfiction masterpiece.” —Dwight Garner\, The New York Times \n GET TICKETS
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/george-packer/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:George Packer
DESCRIPTION:George Packer is a staff writer for the New Yorker and the author of The Unwinding\, which won the 2013 National Book Award for Nonfiction. His earlier book\, The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq\, was named one of the ten best books of 2005 by The New York Times Book Review. He is also the author of two novels\, The Half Man and Central Square\, and two other works of nonfiction\, Blood of the Liberals\, which won the 2001 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award\, and The Village of Waiting. His play\, Betrayed\, ran off-Broadway for five months in 2008 and won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play. He has contributed numerous articles\, essays\, and reviews to the New York Times Magazine\, Mother Jones\, Harper’s and other publications. \n“A brilliant and innovative book that transcends journalism to become literature.”—Bookforum \n[The Unwinding] hums—with sorrow\, with outrage and with compassion . . .” “[Packer has] written something close to a nonfiction masterpiece.” —Dwight Garner\, The New York Times \n GET TICKETS
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/george-packer-2/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:AWN Aspiring Writers' Quarterly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The Aspen Writers’ Network offers opportunities for Roaring Fork Valley writers — from beginners to advanced professional writers — to gather once a quarter to respond together to writing prompts and to consider particular issues of craft. These meetings are open to everyone and alternate between Aspen and Carbondale.
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/awn-aspiring-writers-quarterly-meeting/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:AWN Aspiring Writers' Quarterly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The Aspen Writers’ Network offers opportunities for Roaring Fork Valley writers — from beginners to advanced professional writers — to gather once a quarter to respond together to writing prompts and to consider particular issues of craft. These meetings are open to everyone and alternate between Aspen and Carbondale.
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/awn-aspiring-writers-quarterly-meeting-2/
LOCATION:United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20150106T180000
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SUMMARY:Natasha Trethewey
DESCRIPTION:Natasha Trethewey is the author of four collections of poetry: Domestic Work\, Bellocq’s Ophelia\, Native Guard—for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize—and\, most recently\, Thrall. She has published one work of nonfiction\, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The US Poet Laureate from 2012-2014\, Trethewey is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Guggenheim Foundation\, the Rockefeller Foundation\, the Beinecke Library at Yale\, and the Bunting Fellowship Program of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. At Emory University\, she is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing. Trethewey currently serves as the State Poet Laureate of Mississippi. \n“Trethewey’s writing mines the cavernous isolation\, brutality\, and resilience of African American history\, tracing its subterranean echoes to today.” — The New Yorker \n“Her poems dig beneath the surface of history –personal or communal\, from childhood or from a century ago – to explore the human struggles that we all face.” —Librarian of Congress James Billington\n GET TICKETS
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/natasha-trethewey/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:Natasha Trethewey
DESCRIPTION:Natasha Trethewey is the author of four collections of poetry: Domestic Work\, Bellocq’s Ophelia\, Native Guard—for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize—and\, most recently\, Thrall. She has published one work of nonfiction\, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The US Poet Laureate from 2012-2014\, Trethewey is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Guggenheim Foundation\, the Rockefeller Foundation\, the Beinecke Library at Yale\, and the Bunting Fellowship Program of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. At Emory University\, she is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing. Trethewey currently serves as the State Poet Laureate of Mississippi. \n“Trethewey’s writing mines the cavernous isolation\, brutality\, and resilience of African American history\, tracing its subterranean echoes to today.” — The New Yorker \n“Her poems dig beneath the surface of history –personal or communal\, from childhood or from a century ago – to explore the human struggles that we all face.” —Librarian of Congress James Billington\n GET TICKETS
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/natasha-trethewey-2/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:Jess Walter
DESCRIPTION:Jess Walter is the author of eight books\, including six novels\, one nonfiction title and\, most recently\, the award-winning short story collection\, We Live in Water. His 2012 novel\, Beautiful Ruins\, was a #1 New York Times bestseller\, Esquire’s Book of the Year\, and NPR Fresh Air’s Novel of the Year. He was a 2006 National Book Award finalist for the novel The Zero; also in 2006\, he won the Edgar Allen Poe award for Citizen Vince. Walter’s work has been translated into 30 languages\, and his essays and short fiction have appeared in Best American Short Stories\, Harper’s\, Esquire\, Tin House\, McSweeney’s\, and elsewhere. Walter is also a career journalist\, whose work has appeared in The New York Times\, the Washington Post\, and the Boston Globe. \n“Jess Walter is as talented a natural storyteller as is working in American fiction these days”\n—Michael Lindgren\, Washington Post\n“Walter has emerged as one of the country’s most dazzling novelists … so freakishly\, fiendishly good\, it isn’t fair.”\n—Ken Armstrong\, Seattle Times
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/jess-walter/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:Jess Walter
DESCRIPTION:Jess Walter is the author of eight books\, including six novels\, one nonfiction title and\, most recently\, the award-winning short story collection\, We Live in Water. His 2012 novel\, Beautiful Ruins\, was a #1 New York Times bestseller\, Esquire’s Book of the Year\, and NPR Fresh Air’s Novel of the Year. He was a 2006 National Book Award finalist for the novel The Zero; also in 2006\, he won the Edgar Allen Poe award for Citizen Vince. Walter’s work has been translated into 30 languages\, and his essays and short fiction have appeared in Best American Short Stories\, Harper’s\, Esquire\, Tin House\, McSweeney’s\, and elsewhere. Walter is also a career journalist\, whose work has appeared in The New York Times\, the Washington Post\, and the Boston Globe. \n“Jess Walter is as talented a natural storyteller as is working in American fiction these days”\n—Michael Lindgren\, Washington Post\n“Walter has emerged as one of the country’s most dazzling novelists … so freakishly\, fiendishly good\, it isn’t fair.”\n—Ken Armstrong\, Seattle Times
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/jess-walter-2/
LOCATION:United States
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