What We’re Reading Now:

Sam Babiak, Program Director / Member Services Director The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk Penguin Books September 25, 2014 Mary Karr said, “Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.” This is true for all memories, but if

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Becka Oliver, Executive Director   American Sherlock by Kate Winkler Dawson G.P. Putnam’s Sons February 11, 2020 Kate Winkler Dawson has been the featured author for our latest series of “WLT On the Craft of Writing” events around the state. Which means that I’ve been lucky enough to hear her talk

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Michael Noll, Program Director   Bang by Daniel Peña Arte Publico Press January 30, 2018 In the intense national discussion of the novel American Dirt, one of the things that sometimes gets said is that the book would have drawn less notice–that its errors would have been less egregious–if it had been

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Michael Noll, Program Director   They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid’s Poems by David Bowles Cinco Puntos Press November 27, 2018 I can remember a time when a novel-in-stories was an experimental concept, but thanks to writers like Jacqueline Woodson (National Book Award winner Brown Girl Dreaming) and Kwame Alexander (Newbury

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