Octavia Books | New Orleans, Louisiana - Independent Bookstore - Author Event https://www.octaviabooks.com/category/event-type/author-event en Dave Barry, Adam Mansbach & Alan Zweibel - A Field Guide to the Jewish People https://www.octaviabooks.com/event/dave-barry-adam-mansbach-alan-zweibel-field-guide-jewish-people <section class="field field-name-field-date field-type-date field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Event date:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Tuesday, March 31, 2020 - 7:00pm</span></div></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-address field-type-addressfield field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Event address:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="street-block"><div class="thoroughfare" x-autocompletetype="address-line1" autocomplete="address-line1">New Orleans JCC - 5342 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70115</div></div></div></div></section><div class="field field-name-field-products field-type-aba-product-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="abaproduct-content"> <div class="abaproduct-image"><a href="/book/9781250191960"><img src="https://images.booksense.com/images/books/960/191/FC9781250191960.JPG" onerror="this.src='/profiles/indiecommerce/modules/custom/aba_product/images/book_not_found.jpg';" alt="A Field Guide to the Jewish People: Who They Are, Where They Come From, What to Feed Them…and Much More. Maybe Too Much More Cover Image"></a></div> <div class="abaproduct-details"> <div class="abaproduct-title"> <h2><a href="/book/9781250191960">A Field Guide to the Jewish People: Who They Are, Where They Come From, What to Feed Them…and Much More. Maybe Too Much More (Hardcover)</a></h2> </div> <div class="abaproduct-authors"> By <a href="/search/author/%22Barry%2C%20Dave%22">Dave Barry</a>, <a href="/search/author/%22Mansbach%2C%20Adam%22">Adam Mansbach</a>, <a href="/search/author/%22Zweibel%2C%20Alan%22">Alan Zweibel</a> </div> <div class="abaproduct-price"> $25.99 </div> <div class="abaproduct-isbn"> <strong>ISBN:</strong> 9781250191960 </div> <div class="abaproduct-availability"> <strong>Availability:</strong> On Our Shelves Now </div> <div class="abaproduct-published"> <strong>Published:</strong> Flatiron Books - September 24th, 2019 </div> <div class="abaproduct-add-to-cart"> <fieldset style="text-align: center"> <div class="form-actions form-wrapper"> <form action="/taxonomy/term/2/feed" method="post" id="aba-product-add-to-cart-form-9781250191960" accept-charset="UTF-8"><div><input type="hidden" name="isbn" value="9781250191960" /> <input class="node-add-to-cart form-submit form-submit" type="submit" id="edit-add-to-cart" name="op" value="Add to Cart" /><input type="submit" id="edit-add-to-wishlist" name="op" value="Add to Wish List" class="form-submit" /><input type="hidden" name="form_build_id" value="form-RsePUvDGawvisD3hc4us64yXg_xn5fL60cGij4Zq0Vk" /> <input type="hidden" name="form_id" value="aba_product_add_to_cart_form_9781250191960" /> </div></form> </div> </fieldset> </div> </div> </div> <blockquote cite="/book/9781250191960"> <p><p><b>From three award-winning and bestselling humor writers comes a hilarious guide to everything you need to know about Jewish history, holidays, and traditions. </b></p></p> </blockquote> <hr></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-event-type-terms field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Event Type Terms:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/category/event-type/author-event">Author Event</a></li></ul></section> Tue, 25 Feb 2020 21:26:16 +0000 tom@octaviabooks.com 8032 at https://www.octaviabooks.com Aaron Cohen - MOVE ON UP: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power https://www.octaviabooks.com/event/aaron-cohen-move-chicago-soul-music-and-black-cultural-power <section class="field field-name-field-date field-type-date field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Event date:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Sunday, March 29, 2020 - 3:00pm</span></div></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-address field-type-addressfield field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Event address:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="street-block"><div class="thoroughfare" x-autocompletetype="address-line1" autocomplete="address-line1">Octavia Books - 513 Octavia Street - New Orleans, LA 70115</div></div></div></div></section><div class="field field-name-field-products field-type-aba-product-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="abaproduct-content"> <div class="abaproduct-image"><a href="/book/9780226653037"><img src="https://images.booksense.com/images/books/037/653/FC9780226653037.JPG" onerror="this.src='/profiles/indiecommerce/modules/custom/aba_product/images/book_not_found.jpg';" alt="Move On Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power Cover Image"></a></div> <div class="abaproduct-details"> <div class="abaproduct-title"> <h2><a href="/book/9780226653037">Move On Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power (Paperback)</a></h2> </div> <div class="abaproduct-authors"> By <a href="/search/author/%22Cohen%2C%20Aaron%22">Aaron Cohen</a> </div> <div class="abaproduct-price"> $33.40 </div> <div class="abaproduct-isbn"> <strong>ISBN:</strong> 9780226653037 </div> <div class="abaproduct-availability"> <strong>Availability:</strong> Not in stock. Usually arrives in 2-5 Days </div> <div class="abaproduct-published"> <strong>Published:</strong> University of Chicago Press - September 25th, 2019 </div> <div class="abaproduct-add-to-cart"> <fieldset style="text-align: center"> <div class="form-actions form-wrapper"> <form action="/taxonomy/term/2/feed" method="post" id="aba-product-add-to-cart-form-9780226653037" accept-charset="UTF-8"><div><input type="hidden" name="isbn" value="9780226653037" /> <input class="node-add-to-cart form-submit form-submit" type="submit" id="edit-add-to-cart--2" name="op" value="Add to Cart" /><input type="submit" id="edit-add-to-wishlist--2" name="op" value="Add to Wish List" class="form-submit" /><input type="hidden" name="form_build_id" value="form-mUaP0DHM2dL9XmEVVcIXM7S6HmR30mmwDHZ1O7zl7aI" /> <input type="hidden" name="form_id" value="aba_product_add_to_cart_form_9780226653037" /> </div></form> </div> </fieldset> </div> </div> </div> <blockquote cite="/book/9780226653037"> <p><DIV><B>A <I>Chicago Tribune</I> Book of 2019, Notable Chicago Reads<BR /><BR /> A <I>Booklist </I>Top 10 Arts Book of 2019<BR /><BR /> A <I>No Depression</I> Top Music Book of 2019</B><BR /><BR /> Curtis Mayfield. The Chi-Lites. Chaka Khan. Chicago&rsquo;s place in the history of soul music is rock solid.</p> </blockquote> <hr></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-event-type-terms field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Event Type Terms:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/category/event-type/author-event">Author Event</a></li></ul></section> Tue, 25 Feb 2020 20:08:15 +0000 tom@octaviabooks.com 8031 at https://www.octaviabooks.com Michael Zapata - The Lost Book of Adana Moreau - in conversation with Maurice Ruffin https://www.octaviabooks.com/event/michael-zapata-lost-book-adana-moreau-conversation-maurice-ruffin <section class="field field-name-field-date field-type-date field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Event date:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Friday, March 27, 2020 - 6:00pm</span></div></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-address field-type-addressfield field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Event address:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="street-block"><div class="thoroughfare" x-autocompletetype="address-line1" autocomplete="address-line1">Octavia Books - 513 Octavia Street - New Orleans, LA 70115</div></div></div></div></section><div class="field field-name-field-products field-type-aba-product-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="abaproduct-content"> <div class="abaproduct-image"><a href="/book/9781335010124"><img src="https://images.booksense.com/images/books/124/010/FC9781335010124.JPG" onerror="this.src='/profiles/indiecommerce/modules/custom/aba_product/images/book_not_found.jpg';" alt="The Lost Book of Adana Moreau Cover Image"></a></div> <div class="abaproduct-details"> <div class="abaproduct-title"> <h2><a href="/book/9781335010124">The Lost Book of Adana Moreau (Hardcover)</a></h2> </div> <div class="abaproduct-authors"> By <a href="/search/author/%22Zapata%2C%20Michael%22">Michael Zapata</a> </div> <div class="abaproduct-price"> $26.99 </div> <div class="abaproduct-isbn"> <strong>ISBN:</strong> 9781335010124 </div> <div class="abaproduct-availability"> <strong>Availability:</strong> On Our Shelves Now </div> <div class="abaproduct-published"> <strong>Published:</strong> Hanover Square Press - February 4th, 2020 </div> <div class="abaproduct-add-to-cart"> <fieldset style="text-align: center"> <div class="form-actions form-wrapper"> <form action="/taxonomy/term/2/feed" method="post" id="aba-product-add-to-cart-form-9781335010124" accept-charset="UTF-8"><div><input type="hidden" name="isbn" value="9781335010124" /> <input class="node-add-to-cart form-submit form-submit" type="submit" id="edit-add-to-cart--3" name="op" value="Add to Cart" /><input type="submit" id="edit-add-to-wishlist--3" name="op" value="Add to Wish List" class="form-submit" /><input type="hidden" name="form_build_id" value="form-Gju8SQB5P8896n3reTNCoZnURi6YyBnr-WRfi8jq9pA" /> <input type="hidden" name="form_id" value="aba_product_add_to_cart_form_9781335010124" /> </div></form> </div> </fieldset> </div> </div> </div> <blockquote cite="/book/9781335010124"> <p><strong>A Most Anticipated Book of 2020 from the<em> Boston Globe</em> and <em>The Millions</em></strong> <p></p><strong>A Best Book of February 2020 at <em>Salon, The Millions, LitHub</em> and <em>Vol 1. Brooklyn</em> </strong><p><strong></strong></p></p> </blockquote> <hr></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-event-type-terms field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Event Type Terms:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/category/event-type/author-event">Author Event</a></li></ul></section> Tue, 25 Feb 2020 19:37:54 +0000 tom@octaviabooks.com 8030 at https://www.octaviabooks.com Sylvaine Sancton - JEREMY GOOSE https://www.octaviabooks.com/event/sylvaine-sancton-jeremy-goose <section class="field field-name-field-date field-type-date field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Event date:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Saturday, March 28, 2020 - 2:00pm</span></div></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-address field-type-addressfield field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Event address:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="street-block"><div class="thoroughfare" x-autocompletetype="address-line1" autocomplete="address-line1">Octavia Books - 513 Octavia Street - New Orleans, LA 70115</div></div></div></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-event-type-terms field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Event Type Terms:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/category/event-type/author-event">Author Event</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/event-type/childrens-book-event">Children&#039;s Book Event</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/category/event-type/childrens-book-event/childrens-picture-book-event">Children&#039;s Picture Book Event</a></li></ul></section> Sun, 16 Feb 2020 01:10:26 +0000 tom@octaviabooks.com 8005 at https://www.octaviabooks.com Johnnie Bernhard - SISTERS OF THE UNDERTOW https://www.octaviabooks.com/event/johnnie-bernhard-sisters-undertow <section class="field field-name-field-date field-type-date field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Event date:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Thursday, March 26, 2020 - 6:00pm</span></div></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-address field-type-addressfield field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Event address:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="street-block"><div class="thoroughfare" x-autocompletetype="address-line1" autocomplete="address-line1">Octavia Books, 513 Octavia Street, New Orleans, LA 70115</div></div></div></div></section><div class="field field-name-field-products field-type-aba-product-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="abaproduct-content"> <div class="abaproduct-preorder"> <img src="/sites/all/modules/custom/aba_staff_reviews/is_preorder_small.png" width="60" alt="Pre-Order Now Badge"> </div><div class="abaproduct-image"><a href="/book/9781680032109"><img src="https://images.booksense.com/images/books/109/032/FC9781680032109.JPG" onerror="this.src='/profiles/indiecommerce/modules/custom/aba_product/images/book_not_found.jpg';" alt="Sisters of the Undertow: A Novel Cover Image"></a></div> <div class="abaproduct-details"> <div class="abaproduct-title"> <h2><a href="/book/9781680032109">Sisters of the Undertow: A Novel (Paperback)</a></h2> </div> <div class="abaproduct-authors"> By <a href="/search/author/%22Bernhard%2C%20Johnnie%22">Johnnie Bernhard</a> </div> <div class="abaproduct-price"> $21.95 </div> <div class="abaproduct-isbn"> <strong>ISBN:</strong> 9781680032109 </div> <div class="abaproduct-availability"> <strong>Availability:</strong> Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now </div> <div class="abaproduct-published"> <strong>Published:</strong> Texas Review Press - March 2nd, 2020 </div> <div class="abaproduct-add-to-cart"> <fieldset style="text-align: center"> <div class="form-actions form-wrapper"> <form action="/taxonomy/term/2/feed" method="post" id="aba-product-add-to-cart-form-9781680032109" accept-charset="UTF-8"><div><input type="hidden" name="isbn" value="9781680032109" /> <input class="node-add-to-cart form-submit form-submit" type="submit" id="edit-add-to-cart--4" name="op" value="Add to Cart" /><input type="submit" id="edit-add-to-wishlist--4" name="op" value="Add to Wish List" class="form-submit" /><input type="hidden" name="form_build_id" value="form-43mINojGsuiyc3GDLkB66Bill9UC1c1D65rn6TUtmWk" /> <input type="hidden" name="form_id" value="aba_product_add_to_cart_form_9781680032109" /> </div></form> </div> </fieldset> </div> </div> </div> <blockquote cite="/book/9781680032109"> <p><P>Sisters Kim and Kathy Hodges are born sixteen months apart in a middle-class existence parented by Linda and David Hodges of Houston, Texas. The happy couple welcomes their &ldquo;lucky daughter&rdquo; Kim, who is physically and mentally advanced.</p> </blockquote> <hr></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-event-type-terms field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Event Type Terms:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/category/event-type/author-event">Author Event</a></li></ul></section> Sun, 16 Feb 2020 01:00:49 +0000 tom@octaviabooks.com 8004 at https://www.octaviabooks.com Taylor Brown - PRIDE OF EDEN https://www.octaviabooks.com/event/taylor-brown-pride-eden <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><a href="/book/9781250203816"><img alt="" src="/sites/octaviabooks.com/files/Pride%20of%20Eden_cover%20art_0.jpg" style="margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px; float: right;" /></a>Join us when novelist <strong>Taylor Brown</strong> returns to Octavia Books to present and sign his highly anticipated new book, <a href="/book/9781250203816"><strong>PRIDE OF EDEN</strong></a>.</p> <p>Retired racehorse jockey and Vietnam veteran Anse Caulfield rescues exotic big cats, elephants, and other creatures for Little Eden, a wildlife sanctuary near the abandoned ruins of a failed development on the Georgia coast. But when Anse’s prized lion escapes, he becomes obsessed with replacing her—even if the means of rescue aren’t exactly legal.<br /> <br /> Anse is joined by Malaya, a former soldier who hunted rhino and elephant poachers in Africa; Lope, whose training in falconry taught him to pilot surveillance drones; and Tyler, a veterinarian who has found a place in Anse’s obsessive world.<br /> <br /> From the rhino wars of Africa to the battle for the Baghdad Zoo, from the edges of the Okefenokee Swamp to a remote private island off the Georgia coast, Anse and his team battle an underworld of smugglers, gamblers, breeders, trophy hunters, and others who exploit exotic game.<br /> <br /> <strong>PRIDE OF EDEN</strong> is Taylor Brown's brilliant fever dream of a novel: set on the eroding edge of civilization, rooted in dramatic events linked not only with each character’s past, but to the prehistory of America, where great creatures roamed the continent and continue to inhabit our collective imagination.</p> <blockquote> <p>“Pride of Eden is a beautifully written, visionary novel of scarred souls seeking redemption not only for themselves but, in their limited way, for us all. Taylor Brown is clearly one of the best American writers of his generation. We are fortunate to have his voice in these dark times.”</p> <p><strong>—Ron Rash, author of <em>Serena</em> and <em>Eureka Mill</em></strong></p> </blockquote> <p>&nbsp;</p> <hr /> <p><strong><img alt="" src="/sites/octaviabooks.com/files/Brown%2C%20Taylor_credit%20Harry%20Taylor_0.jpg" style="margin-left: 12px; margin-right: 12px; float: left;" />Taylor Brown</strong> grew up on the Georgia coast. He has lived in Buenos Aires, San Francisco, and the mountains of western North Carolina. He is the recipient of the Montana Prize in Fiction and a finalist for the Southern Book Prize. His novels include <em>Fallen Land</em>, <em>The River of Kings</em>, and <em>Gods of Howl Mountain</em>. He lives in Savannah, Georgia.</p> <hr /></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-date field-type-date field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Event date:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Tuesday, March 24, 2020 - 6:00pm</span></div></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-address field-type-addressfield field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Event address:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="street-block"><div class="thoroughfare" x-autocompletetype="address-line1" autocomplete="address-line1">Octavia Books - 513 Octavia Street - New Orleans, LA 70115</div></div></div></div></section><div class="field field-name-field-products field-type-aba-product-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="abaproduct-content"> <div class="abaproduct-preorder"> <img src="/sites/all/modules/custom/aba_staff_reviews/is_preorder_small.png" width="60" alt="Pre-Order Now Badge"> </div><div class="abaproduct-image"><a href="/book/9781250203816"><img src="https://images.booksense.com/images/books/816/203/FC9781250203816.JPG" onerror="this.src='/profiles/indiecommerce/modules/custom/aba_product/images/book_not_found.jpg';" alt="Pride of Eden: A Novel Cover Image"></a></div> <div class="abaproduct-details"> <div class="abaproduct-title"> <h2><a href="/book/9781250203816">Pride of Eden: A Novel (Hardcover)</a></h2> </div> <div class="abaproduct-authors"> By <a href="/search/author/%22Brown%2C%20Taylor%22">Taylor Brown</a> </div> <div class="abaproduct-price"> $26.99 </div> <div class="abaproduct-isbn"> <strong>ISBN:</strong> 9781250203816 </div> <div class="abaproduct-availability"> <strong>Availability:</strong> Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now </div> <div class="abaproduct-published"> <strong>Published:</strong> St. Martin's Press - March 17th, 2020 </div> <div class="abaproduct-add-to-cart"> <fieldset style="text-align: center"> <div class="form-actions form-wrapper"> <form action="/taxonomy/term/2/feed" method="post" id="aba-product-add-to-cart-form-9781250203816" accept-charset="UTF-8"><div><input type="hidden" name="isbn" value="9781250203816" /> <input class="node-add-to-cart form-submit form-submit" type="submit" id="edit-add-to-cart--5" name="op" value="Add to Cart" /><input type="submit" id="edit-add-to-wishlist--5" name="op" value="Add to Wish List" class="form-submit" /><input type="hidden" name="form_build_id" value="form-reGYdVnF5Cdjw37cXQuXpTknDQHi75p5A0iD9P7zeQQ" /> <input type="hidden" name="form_id" value="aba_product_add_to_cart_form_9781250203816" /> </div></form> </div> </fieldset> </div> </div> </div> <blockquote cite="/book/9781250203816"> <p><p><b>The enthralling new novel from the acclaimed author of <i>Fallen Land, The River of Kings, </i>and <i>Gods of Howl Mountain</i></b><br><b></b></p> </blockquote> <hr></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-event-type-terms field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Event Type Terms:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/category/event-type/author-event">Author Event</a></li></ul></section> Sun, 16 Feb 2020 00:58:15 +0000 tom@octaviabooks.com 8003 at https://www.octaviabooks.com Thea Riofrancos - A PLANET TO WIN & Daniel Denvir - ALL-AMERICAN NATIVISM) https://www.octaviabooks.com/event/thea-riofrancos-planet-win-daniel-denvir-all-american-nativism <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p class="rtecenter"><a href="/book/9781788738316"><img alt="" src="/sites/octaviabooks.com/files/Planet%20to%20Win_0.jpg" style="border-width: 1px; border-style: solid;" /></a> <a href="/book/9781786637130"><img alt="" src="/sites/octaviabooks.com/files/All-American%20Nativism_0.jpg" /></a></p> <p>Please join us for a presentation and book signings with authors&nbsp;<strong>Thea Riofrancos</strong> (<a href="/book/9781788738316"><strong>A PLANET TO WIN</strong></a>) and <strong>Daniel Denvir</strong> (<a href="/book/9781786637130"><strong>ALL-AMERICAN NATIVISM</strong></a>) in conversation with <strong>Nikki Thannos</strong> on the themes of climate change, immigration, the Green New Deal, the imploding political center, and the recent resurgence of both the nativist right and the socialist left.</p> <p><strong><em>A Planet to Win</em></strong> explores the political potential and concrete first steps of a Green New Deal. It calls for dismantling the fossil fuel industry, building beautiful landscapes of renewable energy, and guaranteeing climate-friendly work, no-carbon housing, and free public transit. And it shows how a Green New Deal in the United States can strengthen climate justice movements worldwide.</p> <p>For decades, Republicans and Democrats alike have employed xenophobic ideas and policies, declaring time and again that “illegal immigration” is a threat to the nation’s security, wellbeing, and future. Daniel Denvir argues in <strong><em>All-American Nativism</em></strong>, issues as diverse as austerity economics, free trade, mass incarceration, the drug war, the contours of the post 9/11 security state, and, yes, Donald Trump and the Alt-Right movement are united by the ideology of nativism, which binds together assorted anxieties and concerns into a ruthless political project.</p> <hr /> <p><strong><img alt="" src="/sites/octaviabooks.com/files/Thea%20Riofrancos_0.JPG" style="margin-left: 12px; margin-right: 12px; float: left;" />Thea Riofrancos</strong> is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Providence College and the author of Resource Radicals. Her writing has appeared in the <em>Guardian, n+1, Jacobin, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Dissent, a</em>nd<em> In These Times</em>. She serves on the steering committee of DSA’s Ecosocialist Working Group.</p> <p><strong><img alt="" src="/sites/octaviabooks.com/files/daniel-denvir-headshot_0.jpg" style="margin-left: 12px; margin-right: 12px; float: right;" />Daniel Denvir</strong> is a Fellow at Brown University’s Watson Institute and host of The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. His journalistic work covers criminal justice, the drug war, immigration, and politics and has appeared in the <em>New York Times, Jacobin, Vox, the Nation, the Guardian</em>, and elsewhere.<br /> <br /> <strong><img alt="" src="/sites/octaviabooks.com/files/Nikki%20Thanos_0.jpg" style="margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; float: left; width: 200px; height: 200px;" />Nikki Thanos</strong> is Legal and Policy Director at New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice. She is the author of <em>A Handbook for Social Justice Activists Thinking About Law School </em>and co-author of <em>Trouble in Paradise: Globalization and Environmental Crises in Latin America</em>.</p> <hr /></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-date field-type-date field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Event date:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Wednesday, March 11, 2020 - 6:00pm</span></div></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-address field-type-addressfield field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Event address:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="street-block"><div class="thoroughfare" x-autocompletetype="address-line1" autocomplete="address-line1">Octavia Books - 513 Octavia Street - New Orleans, LA 70115</div></div></div></div></section><div class="field field-name-field-products field-type-aba-product-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="abaproduct-content"> <div class="abaproduct-image"><a href="/book/9781788738316"><img src="https://images.booksense.com/images/books/316/738/FC9781788738316.JPG" onerror="this.src='/profiles/indiecommerce/modules/custom/aba_product/images/book_not_found.jpg';" alt="A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal (Jacobin) Cover Image"></a></div> <div class="abaproduct-details"> <div class="abaproduct-title"> <h2><a href="/book/9781788738316">A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal (Jacobin) (Paperback)</a></h2> </div> <div class="abaproduct-authors"> By <a href="/search/author/%22Aronoff%2C%20Kate%22">Kate Aronoff</a>, <a href="/search/author/%22Battistoni%2C%20Alyssa%22">Alyssa Battistoni</a>, <a href="/search/author/%22Cohen%2C%20Daniel%20Aldana%22">Daniel Aldana Cohen</a>, <a href="/search/author/%22Riofrancos%2C%20Thea%22">Thea Riofrancos</a>, <a href="/search/author/%22Klein%2C%20Naomi%22">Naomi Klein</a> (Foreword by) </div> <div class="abaproduct-price"> $19.95 </div> <div class="abaproduct-isbn"> <strong>ISBN:</strong> 9781788738316 </div> <div class="abaproduct-availability"> <strong>Availability:</strong> Not in stock. Usually arrives in 2-5 Days </div> <div class="abaproduct-published"> <strong>Published:</strong> Verso - November 12th, 2019 </div> <div class="abaproduct-add-to-cart"> <fieldset style="text-align: center"> <div class="form-actions form-wrapper"> <form action="/taxonomy/term/2/feed" method="post" id="aba-product-add-to-cart-form-9781788738316" accept-charset="UTF-8"><div><input type="hidden" name="isbn" value="9781788738316" /> <input class="node-add-to-cart form-submit form-submit" type="submit" id="edit-add-to-cart--6" name="op" value="Add to Cart" /><input type="submit" id="edit-add-to-wishlist--6" name="op" value="Add to Wish List" class="form-submit" /><input type="hidden" name="form_build_id" value="form-iQj8tQKx9qveHSsR6wfrHUevRrVDOGpNxx_6QFZwG-w" /> <input type="hidden" name="form_id" value="aba_product_add_to_cart_form_9781788738316" /> </div></form> </div> </fieldset> </div> </div> </div> <blockquote cite="/book/9781788738316"> <p><b>In the twenty-first century, all politics are climate politics.</b><br></p> </blockquote> <hr></div><div class="field-item odd"><div class="abaproduct-content"> <div class="abaproduct-image"><a href="/book/9781786637130"><img src="https://images.booksense.com/images/books/130/637/FC9781786637130.JPG" onerror="this.src='/profiles/indiecommerce/modules/custom/aba_product/images/book_not_found.jpg';" alt="All-American Nativism: How the Bipartisan War on Immigrants Explains Politics as We Know It (Jacobin) Cover Image"></a></div> <div class="abaproduct-details"> <div class="abaproduct-title"> <h2><a href="/book/9781786637130">All-American Nativism: How the Bipartisan War on Immigrants Explains Politics as We Know It (Jacobin) (Paperback)</a></h2> </div> <div class="abaproduct-authors"> By <a href="/search/author/%22Denvir%2C%20Daniel%22">Daniel Denvir</a> </div> <div class="abaproduct-price"> $24.95 </div> <div class="abaproduct-isbn"> <strong>ISBN:</strong> 9781786637130 </div> <div class="abaproduct-availability"> <strong>Availability:</strong> Backordered </div> <div class="abaproduct-published"> <strong>Published:</strong> Verso - January 14th, 2020 </div> <div class="abaproduct-add-to-cart"> <fieldset style="text-align: center"> <div class="form-actions form-wrapper"> <form action="/taxonomy/term/2/feed" method="post" id="aba-product-add-to-cart-form-9781786637130" accept-charset="UTF-8"><div><input type="hidden" name="isbn" value="9781786637130" /> <input class="node-add-to-cart form-submit form-submit" type="submit" id="edit-add-to-cart--7" name="op" value="Add to Cart" /><input type="submit" id="edit-add-to-wishlist--7" name="op" value="Add to Wish List" class="form-submit" /><input type="hidden" name="form_build_id" value="form-JYXBwBqSig6rbxzpQuof3W0J-hiXRIQ2c2F8_HHrLek" /> <input type="hidden" name="form_id" value="aba_product_add_to_cart_form_9781786637130" /> </div></form> </div> </fieldset> </div> </div> </div> <blockquote cite="/book/9781786637130"> <p><b>American history told from the vantage of immigration politics </b><br></p> </blockquote> <hr></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-event-type-terms field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Event Type Terms:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/category/event-type/author-event">Author Event</a></li></ul></section> Sun, 16 Feb 2020 00:22:30 +0000 tom@octaviabooks.com 8002 at https://www.octaviabooks.com Maurice Carlos Ruffin in conversation with Daniel José Older - WE CAST A SHADOW - paperback edition book launch https://www.octaviabooks.com/event/maurice-ruffin-cast-shadow-paper <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><img alt="" src="/sites/octaviabooks.com/files/we%20cast%20a%20shadow%20pb_0.jpg" style="margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px; float: right;" />Come celebrate the launch of the paperback edition of <strong><a href="https://www.octaviabooks.com/search/author/%22Ruffin%2C%20Maurice%20Carlos%22">Maurice Carlos Ruffin</a>'s</strong> stunning novel, <a href="https://www.octaviabooks.com/book/9780525509073"><strong>We Cast a Shadow</strong></a>. Ruffin will appear in conversation with author <a href="https://www.octaviabooks.com/search/author/%22Older%2C%20Daniel%20Jos%C3%A9%22"><strong>Daniel José Older</strong></a> with a booksiging to follow.</p> <p><strong>A “razor-sharp debut from an urgent new voice of fiction,” (<em>NPR</em>) about a father’s obsessive quest to protect his son—even if it means turning him white.</strong><br /> <br /> <em>“You can be beautiful, even more beautiful than before.”</em> This is the seductive promise of Dr. Nzinga’s Clinic, where anyone can get their lips thinned, their skin bleached, and their noses narrowed. A complete demelanization will liberate you from the confines of being born in a black body—if you can afford it.<br /> <br /> In this near-future Southern city plagued by fenced-in ghettos and police violence, more and more residents are turning to this experimental medical procedure. Like any father, our narrator just wants the best for his son Nigel, a biracial boy whose black birthmark is getting bigger by the day. The darker Nigel becomes, the more frightened his father feels. But how far will he go to protect his son? And will he destroy his family in the process?<br /> <br /> <strong>Story Locale:</strong> A near-future New Orleans-ish city.</p> <hr /> <p><strong><img alt="" src="/sites/octaviabooks.com/files/maurice%20ruffin%20b%2Bw_0.jpg" style="margin-left: 12px; margin-right: 12px; float: left;" />Maurice Carlos Ruffin</strong> is a recipient of an Iowa Review Award in fiction and was the winner of the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition for Novel-in-Progress. His work has appeared in <em>Virginia Quarterly Review</em>, <em>AGNI</em>, <em>Kenyon Review</em>, <em>Massachusetts Review</em>, and <em>Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas</em>. A native of New Orleans, he is a graduate of the University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop and a member of the Peauxdunque Writers Alliance.</p> <p><strong><img alt="" src="/sites/octaviabooks.com/files/Daniel_Jose_Older_0.jpg" style="margin-left: 13px; margin-right: 13px; float: right;" />Daniel José Older</strong> has always loved monsters, whether historical, prehistorical, or imaginary. His debut series for young adults, the Shadowshaper Cypher, has earned starred reviews, the International Latino Book Award, and New York Times Notable Book and NPR Best Book of the Year picks, among other accolades. His debut middle-grade series, Dactyl Hill Squad, was named to the New York Times Notable Book list and to the NPR and Washington Post Best Book of the Year lists, among others. He has worked as a bike messenger, a waiter, and a teacher, and was a New York City paramedic for ten years. Daniel splits his time between Brooklyn and New Orleans.</p> <hr /> <p>&nbsp;</p> </div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-date field-type-date field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Event date:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Tuesday, February 4, 2020 - 6:00pm</span></div></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-address field-type-addressfield field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Event address:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="street-block"><div class="thoroughfare" x-autocompletetype="address-line1" autocomplete="address-line1">Octavia Books - 513 Octavia Street</div></div></div></div></section><div class="field field-name-field-products field-type-aba-product-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="abaproduct-content"> <div class="abaproduct-image"><a href="/book/9780525509073"><img src="https://images.booksense.com/images/books/073/509/FC9780525509073.JPG" onerror="this.src='/profiles/indiecommerce/modules/custom/aba_product/images/book_not_found.jpg';" alt="We Cast a Shadow: A Novel Cover Image"></a></div> <div class="abaproduct-details"> <div class="abaproduct-title"> <h2><a href="/book/9780525509073">We Cast a Shadow: A Novel (Paperback)</a></h2> </div> <div class="abaproduct-authors"> By <a href="/search/author/%22Ruffin%2C%20Maurice%20Carlos%22">Maurice Carlos Ruffin</a> </div> <div class="abaproduct-price"> $17.00 </div> <div class="abaproduct-isbn"> <strong>ISBN:</strong> 9780525509073 </div> <div class="abaproduct-availability"> <strong>Availability:</strong> On Our Shelves Now </div> <div class="abaproduct-published"> <strong>Published:</strong> One World - February 4th, 2020 </div> <div class="abaproduct-add-to-cart"> <fieldset style="text-align: center"> <div class="form-actions form-wrapper"> <form action="/taxonomy/term/2/feed" method="post" id="aba-product-add-to-cart-form-9780525509073" accept-charset="UTF-8"><div><input type="hidden" name="isbn" value="9780525509073" /> <input class="node-add-to-cart form-submit form-submit" type="submit" id="edit-add-to-cart--8" name="op" value="Add to Cart" /><input type="submit" id="edit-add-to-wishlist--8" name="op" value="Add to Wish List" class="form-submit" /><input type="hidden" name="form_build_id" value="form-pZYVLSyt1kGX3l2XMJ1GMkloruxU1SPwhCSxmPgSLPg" /> <input type="hidden" name="form_id" value="aba_product_add_to_cart_form_9780525509073" /> </div></form> </div> </fieldset> </div> </div> </div> <blockquote cite="/book/9780525509073"> <p><b>&ldquo;An incisive and necessary&rdquo; (Roxane Gay) debut for fans of <i>Get Out </i>and Paul Beatty&rsquo;s <i>The Sellout</i>, about a father&rsquo;s obsessive quest to protect his son&mdash;even if it means turning him white</b><br></p> </blockquote> <hr></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-event-type-terms field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Event Type Terms:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/category/event-type/author-event">Author Event</a></li></ul></section> Wed, 29 Jan 2020 05:50:00 +0000 tom@octaviabooks.com 7871 at https://www.octaviabooks.com Melissa Rogers in conversation with Rob Lalka - FAITH IN AMERICAN PUBLIC LIFE https://www.octaviabooks.com/event/melissa-rogers-conversation-rob-lalka-faith-american-public-life <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><img alt="" src="/sites/octaviabooks.com/files/faith%20in%20american%20public%20life_0.jpg" style="margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px; float: right;" />Join us for an evening with <strong>Melissa Rogers</strong> featuring her new book:<strong><a href="https://www.octaviabooks.com/book/9781481309707">FAITH IN AMERICAN PUBLIC LIFE</a></strong>. She will appear in conversation with Tulane University professor, <strong>Rob Lalka</strong>.</p> <p>Sponsored by The St. Charles Center for Faith + Action, the program will take place the St. Charles Avenue Baptist Church, and includes</p> <ul> <li>5:30-6:30 p.m. &nbsp; Wine and Cheese  reception. <strong><a href="https://bit.ly/2Rh6blk" target="_blank">Tickets</a></strong> required. (ncludes signed copy of Rogers’ book). <strong>Click <a href="https://bit.ly/2Rh6blk" target="_blank">here</a> to get tickets now.</strong></li> <li>6:30-7:30 p.m.  Open Admission. Book Discussion + Q&amp;A. Octavia Books will be on site selling books.</li> </ul> <p>In <strong><a href="https://www.octaviabooks.com/book/9781481309707">FAITH IN AMERICAN PUBLIC LIFE</a></strong>, Melissa Rogers—former Special Assistant to President Barack Obama and Executive Director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships—explores the role of religion in the public square and focuses on principles that define the relationship between government and religion. While the Constitution <em>prohibits</em> government-backed religion, it <em>protects</em> the rights of religious individuals and organizations to promote their faith. These twin principles have helped freedom and faith to flourish in the United States.</p> <p>At the same time, Rogers warns of current threats to religious freedom and pluralism in America, the most serious of which are rising hostility toward and attacks on religious minorities. Fearmongering regarding certain religions, races, and ethnicities and the use of violent imagery and dehumanizing language amount to throwing a match on dry kindling. Americans, Rogers argues, must take action to counter these threats. She also warns about efforts to shrink the constitutional bar on governmental establishment of religion and upset a balanced approach to free exercise issues. <em>Faith in American Public Life</em> offers suggestions for confronting these and other challenges.<br /> <br /> Rogers walks readers through settled and contested legal issues, providing an accessible guide to many of the most important and timely matters in this field. The legal rules are not perfect, she says, but they have established a framework that produces remarkable freedom and have helped to create a country where religion can be a powerful force for good. Through her knowledgeable analysis and practical recommendations for policymakers and religious leaders, Rogers inspires hope that the genius of the American system can be preserved and perfected and that efforts to find common ground can be renewed.</p> <hr /> <p><strong>Melissa Rogers</strong> is a nationally known expert on religion in American public life. Her areas of expertise include the United States Constitution’s religious liberty guarantees and the interplay of religion, law, policy, and politics. Rogers currently serves as Visiting Professor at Wake Forest University School of Divinity and as a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.</p> <p>Rogers previously served as Special Assistant to President Barack Obama and Executive Director of the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships (2013-2017), Chair of President Obama’s inaugural Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships (2009-2010), Director of the Center for Religion and Public Affairs at the Wake Forest University School of Divinity (2003 – 2013), Executive Director of the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life (2000 – 2003), and Associate Counsel/General Counsel of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty (1994 – 2000).</p> <p><br /> <strong>Rob Lalka</strong> is Albert R. Lepage Professor in Business at Tulane University's A.B. Freeman School of Business and the Executive Director of the Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. He previously served in the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Global Partnerships and was on the Secretary of State’s policy planning staff.</p> <hr /></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-date field-type-date field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Event date:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Wednesday, February 5, 2020 - 5:30pm</span></div></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-address field-type-addressfield field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Event address:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="street-block"><div class="thoroughfare" x-autocompletetype="address-line1" autocomplete="address-line1">St. Charles Avenue Baptist Church - 7100 St Charles Ave, New Orleans, LA 70118</div></div></div></div></section><div class="field field-name-field-products field-type-aba-product-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="abaproduct-content"> <div class="abaproduct-image"><a href="/book/9781481309707"><img src="https://images.booksense.com/images/books/707/309/FC9781481309707.JPG" onerror="this.src='/profiles/indiecommerce/modules/custom/aba_product/images/book_not_found.jpg';" alt="Faith in American Public Life Cover Image"></a></div> <div class="abaproduct-details"> <div class="abaproduct-title"> <h2><a href="/book/9781481309707">Faith in American Public Life (Hardcover)</a></h2> </div> <div class="abaproduct-authors"> By <a href="/search/author/%22Rogers%2C%20Melissa%22">Melissa Rogers</a>, <a href="/search/author/%22Dionne%2C%20E.%20J.%22">E. J. Dionne</a> (Foreword by) </div> <div class="abaproduct-price"> $34.95 </div> <div class="abaproduct-isbn"> <strong>ISBN:</strong> 9781481309707 </div> <div class="abaproduct-availability"> <strong>Availability:</strong> On Our Shelves Now </div> <div class="abaproduct-published"> <strong>Published:</strong> Baylor University Press - October 15th, 2019 </div> <div class="abaproduct-add-to-cart"> <fieldset style="text-align: center"> <div class="form-actions form-wrapper"> <form action="/taxonomy/term/2/feed" method="post" id="aba-product-add-to-cart-form-9781481309707" accept-charset="UTF-8"><div><input type="hidden" name="isbn" value="9781481309707" /> <input class="node-add-to-cart form-submit form-submit" type="submit" id="edit-add-to-cart--9" name="op" value="Add to Cart" /><input type="submit" id="edit-add-to-wishlist--9" name="op" value="Add to Wish List" class="form-submit" /><input type="hidden" name="form_build_id" value="form-XD7Y5WxtCV6BT6ECJ6DeuuYSsc4Qi0GlQ1UULOHYH9M" /> <input type="hidden" name="form_id" value="aba_product_add_to_cart_form_9781481309707" /> </div></form> </div> </fieldset> </div> </div> </div> <blockquote cite="/book/9781481309707"> <p><p>In <i>Faith in American Public Life</i>, Melissa Rogers--former Special Assistant to President Barack Obama and Executive Director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships--explores the role of religion in the public square and focuses on principles that define the relationship between government and religion.</p> </blockquote> <hr></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-event-type-terms field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Event Type Terms:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/category/event-type/author-event">Author Event</a></li></ul></section> Wed, 29 Jan 2020 05:30:00 +0000 tom@octaviabooks.com 7930 at https://www.octaviabooks.com Jonathan Tel - SCRATCHING THE HEAD OF CHAIRMAN MAO https://www.octaviabooks.com/event/jonathan-tel-scratching-head-chairman-mao <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><a href="/book/9781885983725"><img alt="" src="/sites/octaviabooks.com/files/scratching%20the%20head%20of%20chariman%20mao_0.jpg" style="margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; float: right;" /></a>Join us for a reading and book signing with <strong>Jonathan Tel</strong> featuring his new book, <span id="docs-internal-guid-b9a5cdd9-7fff-1d74-90fa-c99971da43cb"><a href="/book/9781885983725"><strong>SCRATCHING THE HEAD OF CHAIRMAN MAO</strong></a>.</span></p> <blockquote> <p>“A tour de force of deep knowledge, uncanny powers of observation, and brilliant tragicomic invention . . . [A] tale full of harshness and corruption that nevertheless leaves a lingering flavor of strange, otherworldly sweetness.”<strong>—James Lasdun,</strong> author of&nbsp;Afternoon of a Faun and The Fall Guy</p> </blockquote> <p>China is the center of the world, and the center of China is Beijing, and at the center of Beijing is a billionaire financier named Qin. At the opening of this novel-in-stories, Qin is lying in state at his funeral, victim of a sudden and premature death. But it is not until the end of Tel’s biting, virtuosic, post-post-modern feat of cultural observation that the manner of Qin’s death is revealed.</p> <p>Moving back and forth in time, we meet a wide range of Chinese, all linked to Qin by a degree or two of separation: a property developer, a street artist, a prostitute, a fashion model, a spy, an expat lawyer, a muckraking journalist. Linlin and Feifei are sisters, though not really, as “that would be contrary to government policy.” A husband and wife who hardly know each other are reunited in the mysterious Factory 221, where he has become head geologist of a Chinese nuclear base by virtue of survival. “Business relationships,” Qin thinks, “are often like a series of seemingly independent stories that turns out in the end to make up one grand narrative.”</p> <p>“How can a man live in Beijing?” thinks the shoe thief, as he walks away from Qin’s funeral in another man’s solid black brogues.</p> <p class="rteindent1">Young and old, poor and less poor, native and migrant, stand in a line that ribbons and twists back on itself on the sidewalk outside a recreations building, and in fours or sixes, men to the right, women to the left, are allowed into what was and will be again a basketball court, where, studious, they process up and down, poring over the array of shoes, attending to them—the bargain being: if it clutches in the right way, if it seeks to meld with the foot, if it recognizes you, then you consent to recognize it.… Will you be mine, will I be yours, what kind of China might we belong in?<p“jonathan ability="" amazing="" an="" has="" tel="" to=""></p“jonathan></p> <blockquote> <p><span id="docs-internal-guid-a2df5ad9-7fff-0190-4e3f-099530774077">“Jonathan Tel has an amazing ability to ‘get into the heads of Chinese people.’ His characters feel authentic, yet the storytelling is refreshingly different.”</span><strong>—Lijia Zhang</strong>, author of&nbsp;Lotus&nbsp;and&nbsp;Socialism is Great!: A Worker’s Memoir</p> </blockquote> <hr /> <p><strong><span id="docs-internal-guid-18dcb5e6-7fff-d47a-9d1a-9b7984e17231"><img alt="" src="/sites/octaviabooks.com/files/Jonathan%20tel_0.jpg" style="margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px; float: left;" />Jonathan Tel</span></strong> is an award-winning novelist and short story writer whose books include <em>Arafat’s Elephant</em>, <em>Freud’s Alphabet</em>, and <em>The Beijing of Possibilities</em>. His writing has appeared in <em>The New Yorker</em> and <em>Granta</em>. Stories in this book have won the <em>Sunday Times</em> EFG Story Prize, the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and the V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize. Tel teaches history at Stanford University in Berlin, travels widely, and is in Beijing as often as possible. He once taught writing at the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts (NOCCA).</p> <hr /> <p>&nbsp;</p> </div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-date field-type-date field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Event date:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Thursday, February 6, 2020 - 6:00pm</span></div></div></section><section class="field field-name-field-address field-type-addressfield field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Event address:&nbsp;</h2><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="street-block"><div class="thoroughfare" x-autocompletetype="address-line1" autocomplete="address-line1">Octavia Books - 513 Octavia Street - New Orleans, LA 70115</div></div></div></div></section><div class="field field-name-field-products field-type-aba-product-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="abaproduct-content"> <div class="abaproduct-image"><a href="/book/9781885983725"><img src="https://images.booksense.com/images/books/725/983/FC9781885983725.JPG" onerror="this.src='/profiles/indiecommerce/modules/custom/aba_product/images/book_not_found.jpg';" alt="Scratching the Head of Chairman Mao Cover Image"></a></div> <div class="abaproduct-details"> <div class="abaproduct-title"> <h2><a href="/book/9781885983725">Scratching the Head of Chairman Mao (Paperback)</a></h2> </div> <div class="abaproduct-authors"> By <a href="/search/author/%22Tel%2C%20Jonathan%22">Jonathan Tel</a> </div> <div class="abaproduct-price"> $17.00 </div> <div class="abaproduct-isbn"> <strong>ISBN:</strong> 9781885983725 </div> <div class="abaproduct-availability"> <strong>Availability:</strong> On Our Shelves Now </div> <div class="abaproduct-published"> <strong>Published:</strong> Turtle Point Press - January 28th, 2020 </div> <div class="abaproduct-add-to-cart"> <fieldset style="text-align: center"> <div class="form-actions form-wrapper"> <form action="/taxonomy/term/2/feed" method="post" id="aba-product-add-to-cart-form-9781885983725" accept-charset="UTF-8"><div><input type="hidden" name="isbn" value="9781885983725" /> <input class="node-add-to-cart form-submit form-submit" type="submit" id="edit-add-to-cart--10" name="op" value="Add to Cart" /><input type="submit" id="edit-add-to-wishlist--10" name="op" value="Add to Wish List" class="form-submit" /><input type="hidden" name="form_build_id" value="form-1cmrRdeopCmBLhRDiTML7l2yX1PqJ7t3Mop3Tf9y_xQ" /> <input type="hidden" name="form_id" value="aba_product_add_to_cart_form_9781885983725" /> </div></form> </div> </fieldset> </div> </div> </div> <blockquote cite="/book/9781885983725"> <p><p>“Mr. Tel is excellent at subtly warping the ordinary experiences of his characters, blending the real with the absurd.” <strong>-Sam Sacks</strong>, <em>The Wall Street Journal</em></p> </p> </blockquote> <hr></div></div></div><section class="field field-name-field-event-type-terms field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above view-mode-rss"><h2 class="field-label">Event Type Terms:&nbsp;</h2><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/category/event-type/author-event">Author Event</a></li></ul></section> Wed, 29 Jan 2020 05:20:00 +0000 tom@octaviabooks.com 7955 at https://www.octaviabooks.com
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