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SUMMARY:Colson Whitehead Reading: The Nickel Boys
DESCRIPTION:Event Photos by Crystal Birns: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nBookshop Santa Cruz presents Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Colson Whitehead for a reading of The Nickel Boys\, his highly anticipated followup and companion to The Underground Railroad. This special ticketed event will take place at Peace United Church and is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \nTICKET PACKAGES: Ticket packages are $30 and include ONE ticket to the event and ONE copy of The Nickel Boys. Purchase ticket packages at Bookshop Santa Cruz or online\, while supplies last. \n \nFree entry and a book will be given out to the first 50 UCSC students to attend  \n(student ID required at the door) \nIn his speech accepting the 2016 National Book Award for The Underground Railroad\, Colson Whitehead summarized the responsibility of writers in our difficult times: Be Kind. Make Art. Fight the Power. With his astonishing new novel\, it’s clear he’s taken his own counsel to heart. \nA perfect follow-up and companion to The Underground Railroad\, in The Nickel Boys\, Colson Whitehead recreates the horrors of segregation and the struggles of the Civil Rights movement as the backdrop for an emotionally charged and compulsively readable novel populated with deeply empathetic characters. \nIn the early 1960s\, as the Civil Rights movement begins to reach segregated Tallahassee\, Florida\, one innocent mistake is all it takes for Elwood Curtis to become sentenced to the Nickel Academy — a grotesque chamber of horrors where sadistic staff abuse the students\, corrupt officials steal food and supplies\, and any boy who resists is likely to disappear “out back.” Elwood takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart. “Throw us in jail and will still love you.” His friend Turner thinks Elwood is worse than naïve — that the world is crooked\, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. The tension between Elwood’s ideals and Turner’s skepticism leads to a decision with repercussions that will echo for decades. \nHighlighting a story that hasn’t been widely shared before about one of our country’s secret tragedies\, in The Nickel Boys\, not only does Colson Whitehead bring to life vividly the evils of Jim Crow America — he also brings to life the heartbreaking story of two boys and their impossible choices. Elwood and Turner will become known to readers as two of the most indelible characters in modern fiction thanks to Colson Whitehead’s prodigious talent and boundless compassion. \n\nAhead of the event\, read THI’s interview with Tyler Stovall\, who will be introducing Whitehead on the night.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/colson-whitehead/
LOCATION:Peace United Church\, 900 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:SOLD OUT: An Evening with Malcolm Gladwell - Talking to Strangers
DESCRIPTION:Event Photos by Crystal Birns: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nThe Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz\, in partnership with Bookshop Santa Cruz\, are delighted to present an evening with Malcolm Gladwell for the hardcover tour of Talking to Strangers. Join us at San Mateo Performing Arts Center on Saturday\, September 21st at 7:00 p.m. for this very special evening! \nThis event is now sold out. \nAbout the book: In his first new book in six years\, TALKING TO STRANGERS: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know\, Gladwell offers an incisive and powerful examination of our interactions with strangers—and why they often go so terribly wrong. Probing the headlines around Bernie Madoff\, Amanda Knox\, Sylvia Plath\, Jerry Sandusky\, Sandra Bland and Neville Chamberlain’s interactions with Hitler\, he throws into doubt our conception of these stories and makes the case that something is very wrong with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don’t know. With the brilliantly engaging storytelling and razor-sharp observations we’ve come to expect from him\, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook that helps make sense of our troubled times. \nAbout the Author: Malcolm Gladwell is the author of five international bestsellers: The Tipping Point\, Blink\, Outliers\, What the Dog Saw\, and David and Goliath. He is the host of the podcast Revisionist History\, co-host of the music podcast Broken Record\, and a staff writer at The New Yorker. He was named one of the 100 most influential people by Time magazine. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/an-evening-with-malcolm-gladwell-talking-to-strangers/
LOCATION:San Mateo Performing Arts Center\, 600 N Delaware St\, San Mateo\, CA\, 94401\, United States
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