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SUMMARY:Forging Friendships\, Creating Community
LOCATION:Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library - Central Library\nMartin
  Luther King Jr. Memorial Library - Central Library
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DESCRIPTION:A fireside chat with novelists Rabih Alameddine and Manil Suri
  about writing\, community\, and pride. .\nhttps://dclibrary.libnet.info/e
 vent/13581042
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>As part of Find Your Story\, join the Libr
 ary and PEN/Faulkner Foundation for a special conversation with literary i
 cons Manil Suri and Rabih Allameddine. Moderated by novelist Jeffrey Dale 
 Lofton\, the conversation will explore their work as gay novelists and ref
 lections on community and friendship among writers.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;
  &nbsp\;</p>\n<h4>About the speakers</h4>\n<p>&nbsp\; &nbsp\;</p>\n<p><str
 ong><img src="https://static.libnet.info/frontend-images/editor/dclibrary/
 Manil_Suri_Color__1_.jpg" alt="Manil Suri" title="Manil Suri" width="150" 
 height="150" style="float: left\;" />Manil Suri</strong> was born in Mumba
 i in 1959 and is a distinguished university professor of mathematics at th
 e University of Maryland\, Baltimore County. He is the author of The Big B
 ang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Math\, as well as thr
 ee internationally acclaimed novels\, The Death of Vishnu\, The Age of Shi
 va\, and The City of Devi. His fiction has been translated into twenty-sev
 en languages\, longlisted for the Booker Prize\, shortlisted for the PEN/F
 aulkner Award\, LA Times Book Award\, PEN/Hemingway Award and the W. H. Sm
 ith Literary Award\, and has won the McKittrick Prize and the Barnes &amp\
 ; Noble Discover Award\, among others. He is a former contributing opinion
  writer at the New York Times\, for which he has written several widely re
 ad pieces on mathematics\, India\, and LGBTQ+ issues. He lives with his hu
 sband in Silver Spring\, Maryland.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>&nbsp\; &nbsp\;</p>\n<
 p>&nbsp\; &nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong><img src="https://static.libnet.info/fro
 ntend-images/editor/dclibrary/rabinalammedine.jpeg" alt="Rabih Alameddine"
  title="Rabih Alameddine" width="150" height="100" style="float: left\;" /
 >Rabih Alameddine</strong> is the author of Comforting Myths: Concerning t
 he Political in Art\, and the novels The Wrong End of the Telescope\, The 
 Angel of History\, An Unnecessary Woman\, The Hakawati\, I\, The Divine\, 
 and Koolaids\, as well as the story collection The Perv. His books have be
 en translated into more than 20 t languages. His most recent awards includ
 e the 2019 Dos Passos Prize\, the 2021 Lannan Prize for Fiction\, and the 
 2022 PEN/Faulner Awards\, He is co-editing The Penguin Book of the Interna
 tional Short Story and has just completed a new Novel\, The True True Stor
 y of Raja the Guillible (and His Mother). He divides his time between his 
 bedroom &amp\; his living room.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>&nbsp\; &nbsp\;</p
 >\n<p><strong><img src="https://static.libnet.info/frontend-images/editor/
 dclibrary/Jeffrey_D_Lofton_NewsPage-699x1024.jpg" alt="Jeff Dale Lofton" t
 itle="Jeff Dale Lofton" width="150" height="219" style="float: left\;" />J
 effrey Dale Lofton</strong> hails from Warm Springs\, Georgia\, best known
  as the home of Roosevelt&rsquo\;s Little White House. He calls the nation
 &rsquo\;s capital home now and has for over three decades. Following an ea
 rly career in acting\, he was keen to use his stage-and-screen-performer&r
 squo\;s deep understanding of the art of storytelling in a different way\,
  and t oday\, he is a senior advisor at the Library of Congress\, surround
 ed by books and people who love books&mdash\;in short\, paradise.&nbsp\; R
 ed Clay Suzie is his first novel\, a fictionalized memoir written through 
 his personal lens growing up a gay\, physically misshapen outsider in a co
 nservative family and community in the Deep South.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n
 <p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p>&nbsp\; &nbsp\;</p>\n<p>&nbsp\; &nbsp\;</p>\
 n<p>&nbsp\; &nbsp\;</p>\n<p>&nbsp\; &nbsp\;</p>\n<h4>About Find Your Story
 ...Writing with Pride&nbsp\;</h4>\n<p><strong>A Day of Writing and Communi
 ty at MLK Library Celebrating DC&rsquo\;s LGBTQ Writers.</strong></p>\n<p>
 <a href="https://dclibrary.libnet.info/event/13580914">Find Your Story...W
 riting with Pride&nbsp\;</a>will be a day of workshops\, presentations\, a
 nd author talks focused on DC&rsquo\;s writing community. For World Pride 
 the event will have special focus on LGBTQ writers in the DC area. The day
  will include panel discussions\, informal writing workshops\, and a dedic
 ated poetry stage.</p>\n<p>&nbsp\; &nbsp\;</p>\n<p>&nbsp\; &nbsp\;</p>\nht
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