BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Inprint - ECPv4.9.12//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Inprint X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://inprinthouston.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Inprint BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20230312T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20231105T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230821T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230821T193000 DTSTAMP:20240920T020204 CREATED:20230512T175311Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230801T172425Z UID:47782-1692646200-1692646200@inprinthouston.org SUMMARY:Inprint James McBride Reading DESCRIPTION:James McBride will read from his new novel The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store\, followed by an on-stage conversation with acclaimed ABC-13 News journalist Melanie Lawson. The evening will conclude with a book sale and signing. The event is presented as part of the 2023/2024 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series.  \n \nJAMES MCBRIDE has been called “a modern-day Mark Twain” (The New York Times) and was awarded the National Book Award for The Good Lord Bird. He is the author of six novels\, including the Oprah’s Book Club Pick Deacon King Kong\, Kill ‘Em and Leave\, and Miracle at St. Anna. His memoir The Color of Water\, which spent more than two years on The New York Times bestseller list and sold 2.5 million copies\, details McBride’s life growing up in Brooklyn’s Red Hook housing projects as part of a large African American family led by his white Jewish mother. The Color of Water is now read in schools across the country and has been translated into 16 languages. \nHe joins us to read from and talk about his new novel Heaven & Earth Grocery Store\, a riveting story about the long-held secrets kept by the immigrant Jewish and African American communities living on Chicken Hill. About the author\, Kirkus writes\, “If it’s possible for America to have a poet laureate\, why can’t James McBride be its storyteller-in-chief?” McBride is also the recipient of a National Humanities Medal\, an accomplished jazz musician\, and a distinguished writer in residence at New York University. \nABC-13 News journalist MELANIE LAWSON has won numerous awards for her reporting\, including three Emmys. She is well-known for her in-depth interviews with a wide range of notables\, including three U.S. Presidents\, Henry Kissinger\, the Dalai Lama\, Maya Angelou\, Destiny’s Child\, Spike Lee\, and Denzel Washington\, and for this Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series Brit Bennett\, Ta-Nehisi Coates\, and Annette Gord0n-Reed. \n URL:https://inprinthouston.org/event/inprint-james-mcbride-reading/ LOCATION:Alley Theatre\, 615 Texas Avenue\, Houston\, TX\, 77002 CATEGORIES:2023/2024 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://inprinthouston.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/James-McBride-c-Chia-Messina-2-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR