BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//sebbo.net//ical-generator//EN NAME:DC Public Library X-WR-CALNAME:DC Public Library BEGIN:VEVENT UID:88b9ccf9-97ef-4ee7-9380-29f5b2a7f5db SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260716T083515Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250313T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250313T210000 SUMMARY:How to Sell Out - An Evening with Chad Sanders LOCATION:Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library - Central Library\nMartin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library - Central Library X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Martin Luther King Jr. Mem orial Library - Central Library;X-APPLE-RADIUS=10;X-TITLE=Martin Luther Ki ng Jr. Memorial Library - Central Library:geo:38.8986823,-77.024871 GEO:38.8986823;-77.024871 DESCRIPTION:A conversation with Chad Sanders and Hannah Oliver Depp..\nhtt ps://dclibrary.libnet.info/event/13059225 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

For Black History Month\, join the Library and Loyalty bookstores for an in-person event with Chad Sanders and Hanna h Oliver Depp for \;How to Sell Out \;by Chad Sanders.&nb sp\;

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Copies of the book will be available for sale and signing. A limited number will be given away courtesy of the DC Public Library Founda tion. \;

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ABOUT THE BOOK

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A timely\, vu lnerable\, and cutting-edge exploration of the pressures and pitfalls of w riting while Black in America in this urgently needed addition to the nati onal conversation of race\, money\, and art.

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In the summer of 2020 \, when the nation was erupting in protest over the murder of George Floyd \, Chad Sanders was quietly celebrating for selfish reasons. Why? After ye ars of struggling to get his footing as a writer\, he&rsquo\;d finally lan ded a \;New York Times \;op-ed. He wrote an essay about the hollow messages of concern he&rsquo\;d been receiving from white friends and col leagues. It went viral\, and in the years that followed\, he built a solid career as a creator&mdash\;of books\, podcasts\, TV shows\, and films&mda sh\;by mining his most painful experiences of being Black in America.

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Black pain for white money. For Sanders\, this was a lucrative trade. One he thought he could work for the rest of his life. But it didn&rsquo\; t take long for him to realize he\, like so many other writers\, was getti ng the short end of the stick.

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In \;How to Sell Out\, Sanders draws on his personal experiences to offer a wry\, darkly comic l ook at the invisible realities of making a living as a Black writer who wr ites about race. He relays stories of his time in the tech business\, his experiences in TV writers&rsquo\; rooms\, his childhood participation in&n bsp\;Jack and Jill\, his family and relationships\, and the struggles of s haring his racial trauma in exchange for cash. Combining meditations on hi storical and current events and the intersection of race and class with sh ort creative essays\, Sanders sculpts a freewheeling arc that is as funny as it is moving and thought-provoking.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Chad SandersChad Sanders \;is the author of \;Black Magic: What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma an d Triumph. He is the host of the \;Yearbook \;podcast on the Armch air Expert network and the Audible Originals podcast\, \;Direct Deposi t. \;Chad&rsquo\;s work has been featured in \;The \;New York Times\, \;Time\, \;Fortune\, \;Forbes\, \;Deadline\, \ ;Variety\, \;The Hollywood Reporter\, and other publications. Chad has also written for TV series on Max and Freeform. \;Chad was raised in Silver Spring\, Maryland\, and earned his BA in English at Morehouse Colle ge. He lives in New York City.

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ABOUT THE CONVERSAT ION PARTNER

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Hannah Oliver Depp \;is the co-owner of L oyalty Bookstores in DC and MD. Loyalty is dedicated to diverse and inters ectional literature\, programs\, and gifts for all ages. Oliver Depp has s erved on multiple American Bookseller Association committees and task forc es. She is currently on the boards of Bookshop.org and New Atlantic Indepe ndent Bookseller's Association. She holds a Masters in English from Americ an University and was awarded the 2021 Women&rsquo\;s National Book Associ ation Woman of the Year Award. She can be found on social media @oliverdep p and hopes you are prepared for many pictures of her muppety dog. \;< /p>\nhttps://dclibrary.libnet.info/event/13059225 URL;VALUE=URI:https://dclibrary.libnet.info/event/13059225 ATTACH:https://static.libnet.info/images/events/dclibrary/howtosellout.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR