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Lupita Aquino invites you to join her new book club\, La Comunidad Reads\, an author-inclusive club that aims to bui ld a space where Latine-authored books are magnified for all readers!

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In this special Hispanic Heritage Month edition of the La Comunidad Reads Book Club\, Lupita is convening a panel of incredible Latinx writers who make up the El Gran Combo. What is the El Gran Combo? In the midst of the pandemic\, L atinx writers created this collective effort as a means to continue the su pport for bookstores and authors by building community through virtual fie stas/conversations. Featuring core author members\, Angie Cruz\, Caro De R obertis\, Lilliam Rivera and Jaquira Dí\;az\, this once-virtual even t\, now continues to make its rounds celebrating\, amplifying and connecti ng Latine authors and readers. \;

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Join #LaComunidadReads as we welcome the core members of El Gran Combo\, author series to DC for a&nbs p\; special \;conversation \;about community: how these authors ap proach writing about it through their books\, how to form it\, sustain it and nourish it for generations to come. Seating opens at 2:30 PM with  \;vinyl selector Jovi bringing us salsa and Latin jazz \;vibes. Dancin g welcomed!

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About Angie Cruz

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Angie Cruz Angie Cruz is a novelist and editor. Her most recent novel How Not To Drown in A Glass of Water (2022) is a finalist \;for the 2024 Neustad t International Prize for Literature\, shortlisted for The Aspen Words Lit erary Prize\, winner of the Gold Medal\, Latino Book Award/The Isabel Alle nde Most Inspirational Book Award\, longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates L iterary Prize and chosen for The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2022 and The Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Fiction. Her novel\, Dominican a was the inaugural book pick for GMA book club and shortlisted for The Wo men&rsquo\;s Prize\, longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excelle nce in Fiction\, a RUSA Notable book and the winner of the ALA/YALSA Alex Award in fiction. It was named most anticipated/ best book in 2019 by Time \, Newsweek\, People\, Oprah Magazine\, The Washington Post\, The New York Times\, and Esquire. Cruz is the author of two other novels\, Soledad and Let It Rain Coffee and the recipient of numerous fellowships and residenc ies including the Lighthouse Fellowship\, Siena Art Institute\, and the Ma cdowell Arts Colony. She&rsquo\;s published shorter works in The Paris Rev iew\, VQR\, Callaloo\, Gulf Coast and other journals. She's the founder an d Editor-in-chief of the award winning literary journal\, Aster(ix) and is currently an Associate Professor at University of Pittsburgh. She divides her time between Pittsburgh\, New York and Turin.

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About Caro De Robertis

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A w riter of Uruguayan origins\, Caro De Robertis is the author of the forthco ming novel \;The Palace of Eros\, \;as well as \;The President and the Frog\, \;a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the PEN/Je an Stein Book Award\; \;Cantoras\, \;winner of a Stonewall Book Aw ard and a Reading Women Award\, a finalist for the Kirkus Prize and a Lamb da Literary Award\, and a New York Times Editors&rsquo\; Choice\; \;Th e Gods of Tango\, winner of a Stonewall Book Award\; \;Perla\; \;a nd the international bestseller \;The Invisible Mountain\, which recei ved Italy&rsquo\;s Rhegium Julii Prize. Their books have been translated i nto seventeen languages and have received numerous other honors\, includin g a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Dos P assos Prize for Literature.

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De Robertis is also an award-winning t ranslator of Latin American and Spanish literature\, and editor of the ant hology \;Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times. In 2017\, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts named De Robertis on its 10 0 List of &ldquo\;people\, organizations\, and movements that are shaping the future of culture.&rdquo\; In 2022\, they were an inaugural Baldwin-Em erson Fellow\, gathering oral histories of queer and trans BIPOC elders in collaboration with Baldwin for the Arts and the Center for Oral History a t Columbia University. De Robertis is an associate professor at San Franci sco State University\, and lives in Oakland\, California with their \; two children.

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About Lilliam Rivera

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Lilliam Rivera is an award-winning author of t he young adult novels Never Look Back\, a Pura Belpré\; Honor winner \, Dealing In Dreams\, The Education of Margot Sanchez\, as well as the Go ldie Vance series for middle grade readers\, and the stand-alone middle gr ade novel Barely Floating. Her latest works include a young adult science fiction novel\, We Light Up the Sky\, for Bloomsbury and a graphic novel f or DC Comics\, Unearthed: A Jessica Cruz Story\, both named &ldquo\;Best B ooks of 2021&rdquo\; by Kirkus Review and School Library Journal.

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The critically-acclaimed young adult novel Never Look Back\, a retelling o f the Greek myth Orpheus and Eurydice set in New York by Bloomsbury is a 2 021 Pura Belpre Honor book. NPR wrote of the novel: &ldquo\;Never Look Bac k signs its own love song to the world.&rdquo\; The multiple starred Never Look Back has been featured in Mashable\, Entertainment Weekly\, and Teen Vogue and was a Fall Indie Next List pick. Her other books include Dealin g in Dreams\, The Education of Margot Sanchez\, and the middle grade serie s Goldie Vance: The Hocus-Pocus Hoax and Goldie Vance: The Hotel Whodunit.

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Dealing In Dreams has been featured in Teen Vogue\, PBS Books\, L os Angeles Times\, Bustle\, among other outlets\, and has received starred reviews by the School Library Journal and Booklist. Dealing In Dreams was also named &ldquo\;Best Book of the Year&rdquo\; by Seventeen magazine. T he Education of Margot Sanchez was nominated for a 2019 Rhode Island Teen Book Award\, a 2017 Best Fiction for Young Adult Fiction by the Young Adul t Library Services Association (YALSA)\, and has been featured on NPR\, Ne w York Times Book Review\, New York magazine\, MTV.com\, and Teen Vogue\, among others.

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Lilliam is a 2016 Pushcart Prize winner and a 2015 C larion alumni with a Leonard Pung Memorial Scholarship. She has also been awarded fellowships from PEN Center USA\, A Room Of Her Own Foundation\, a nd received a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation and the Speculati ve Literature Foundation. She received honorable mention in the 2018 James Tiptree\, Jr. Literary Award and in Bellevue Literary Review's 2014 Golde nberg Prize for Fiction\, selected by author Nathan Englander. Her short f iction and personal essays have appeared in various literary journals and publications including Tin House\, New York Times\, Buzzfeed Books\, and T he Washington Post. She has been a featured speaker in countless schools a nd book festivals throughout the United States and is on faculty at Hamlin e University.

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Lilliam lives in Los Angeles.

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About Jaquira Dí\;az

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Born in Puerto Rico\, Jaquira Dí\;az was raised between Humacao\ , Fajardo\, and Miami Beach. She is the author of \;Ordinary Girls: A Memoir\, winner of a Whiting Award\, a Florida Book Awards Gold Medal\, a Lambda Literary Awards finalist\, an American Booksellers Association Indi es Introduce Selection\, a Barnes &\; Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection\, an Indie Next Pick\, a Library Reads pick\, and finalist for t he B&\;N Discover Prize. \;Ordinary Girls \;was optioned for te levision and is currently in development at FX with Dí\;az as Co-Exe cutive Producer.

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The recipient of the Jeanne Có\;rdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction\, the Alonzo Davis Fellowship from VCCA\, tw o Pushcart Prizes\, an Elizabeth George Foundation grant\, and fellowships from MacDowell\, the \;Kenyon Review\, Bread Loaf\, Sewanee\, the Wis consin Institute for Creative Writing\, and the Black Mountain Institute a t UNLV\, Dí\;az has written for \;The Atlantic\, \;The Guard ian\, \;Time Magazine\, \;T: The New York Times Style Magazine\,&n bsp\;Condé\; Nast Traveler\, and \;The Fader\, and her stories\, poems\, and essays have been anthologized in \;The Best American Essa ys\, The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext\, \;Best American Experiment al Writing\, and \;The Pushcart Prize \;anthology. In 2022\, she h eld the Mina Hohenberg Darden Chair in Creative Writing at Old Dominion Un iversity&rsquo\;s MFA program and a Pabst Endowed Chair for Master Writers at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Her second book\, \;I Am Deliber ate\, is forthcoming from Algonquin Books. She lives in New York with her spouse\, the writer Lars Horn\, and she&rsquo\;s an Assistant Professor of Writing at Columbia University.

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