BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//sebbo.net//ical-generator//EN NAME:St. Charles Public Library District X-WR-CALNAME:St. Charles Public Library District BEGIN:VEVENT UID:b763a9ed-ed83-4c74-b493-abad72d89a74 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260806T065731Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220126T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220126T200000 SUMMARY:An Evening with Silvia Moreno-Garcia LOCATION:Virtual\nVirtual X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Virtual;X-APPLE-RADIUS=10; X-TITLE=Virtual:geo:41.9139281,-88.3077326 GEO:41.9139281;-88.3077326 DESCRIPTION:The bestselling and award-winning author of Mexican Gothic dis cusses her newest book\, Velvet Was the Night and her genre-defying mashup s of cultural noir and Lovecraftian horror. \n.\nhttps://scpld.libnet.info /event/5976117 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Velvet Was the Night is one of The New Yor k Times' 100 Notable Books of 2021.

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Silvia Moreno-Garcia is the be stselling author of the critically acclaimed novels Certain Dark Things\, Gods of Jade and Shadow\, and Mexican Gothic\, which Vanity Fair called &l dquo\;[An] irresistibly dark feminist reimagining of the Gothic fantasy no vel.&rdquo\;  \;Mexican by birth\, Canadian by inclination\, Moreno-Ga rcia has edited several anthologies and is a columnist for The Washington Post.  \;

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Silvia Moreno-Garcia will be joined in conversation with author Gus Moreno. Gus Moreno is the author of This Thing Between Us. His favorite books are American Psycho\, Battle Royale\, and Under the Sk in. He lives in the suburbs with his wife and dogs\, but never think that he's not from Chicago. \;Join us on Zoom. \; \;

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This e vent is made possible by Illinois Libraries Present\, a statewide collabor ation between public libraries offering high-quality events.

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