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:20240310T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20241103T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241118T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241118T210000 DTSTAMP:20241113T050926 CREATED:20240726T000848Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T153417Z UID:51055-1731958200-1731963600@inprinthouston.org SUMMARY:Inprint Ta-Nehisi Coates Reading DESCRIPTION:\n\nThe Inprint Ta-Nehisi Coates reading on Monday\, 11/18/2024\, is now SOLD OUT. There will be an Online Rebroadcast which will be available for viewing on Thursday\, 11/21/2024. For more information and tickets to the Online Rebroadcast\, click here\,\n\nTa-Nehisi Coates will read from his new book The Message\, followed by an on-stage conversation with celebrated author and Rice University faculty member Kiese Laymon. Please note\, there is no book signing for this event\, but each ticket includes a copy of Coates’s new book The Message. The event is presented as part of the 2024/2025 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series  and in partnership with  Kindred Stories.\n\n\n \nTa-Nehisi Coates’s “visceral\, eloquent\, and beautifully redemptive” language has been hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading\,” and The New York Observer calls him “the single best writer on the subject of race in the United States.” A MacArthur Fellow\, he is author of the bestselling books The Beautiful Struggle\, We Were Eight Years in Power\, and Between the World and Me – an essay in the form of a letter to his son – a #1 New York Times bestseller and winner of the National Book Award and an NAACP Image Award. Publishers Weekly called his debut novel\, The Water Dancer\, “bold [and] dazzling\,” and Esi Edugyan wrote\, “Coates balances the horrors of slavery against the fantastical…. But in the end\, [this is] a novel interested in the psychological effects of slavery\, a grief Coates is especially adept at parsing.” He is also the writer of numerous award-winning issues of Marvel’s Black Panther (2016-2021) and Captain America (2018-2021) comics series. \nCoates returns to Houston to share his new book of intertwining essays\, The Message\, a text he originally intended to be about writing\, in the tradition of Orwell’s classic Politics and the English Language\, but Coates found himself grappling with deeper questions about how our stories expose and distort our realities. According to APNews.com\, “The Message is set everywhere from the American South to the Middle East and Palestine and focuses on a single question: In a time of growing strife and injustice\, why do stories matter?” \nKiese Laymon is a writer from Jackson\, Mississippi and the author of the genre-bending novel Long Division and the essay collection How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America. Laymon’s bestselling Heavy: An American Memoir won the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction\, the Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose\, and was named one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years by The New York Times. He is the Libby Shearn Moody Professor of Creative Writing and English at Rice University. \n URL:https://inprinthouston.org/event/inprint-ta-nehisi-coates-reading-2/ LOCATION:Cullen Theater\, Wortham Center\, 501 Texas Avenue\, Houston\, TX\, United States CATEGORIES:2024/2025 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://inprinthouston.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Coates-Ta-Nehisi-c-Ta-Nehisi-Coates_cropped.jpeg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR