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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.25pt'><b><span style='font-size:
9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Marlon James<br>
<i><u>Book of Night</u></i>: A Reading<br>
Sunday, February 24th at 4PM<br>
Labyrinth Books, New Haven</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style='line-height:14.25pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:#333333'>Please join us for a reading by acclaimed novelist Marlon
James.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='line-height:14.25pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:#333333'>"Writing in the spirit of Toni Morrison and Alice Walker
but in a style all his own, James has conducted an experiment in how to write
the unspeakable -- even the unthinkable. And the results of this experiment
are an undeniable success." -- Kaiama Glover, NYT Book Review<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.25pt'><b><span style='font-size:
9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Marlon James</span></b><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'> is
a finalist for this year's National Book Critics Circle Award and a nominee
for the NAACP's Image Award in Literature. He was born in Jamaica in 1070.
His first novel,<i> John Crow's Devil</i>, was short listed for the
Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize.<br>
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This event is free and open to the public.<br>
It is a collaboration with Real Art Ways:<br>
www.realartways.org<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Yale-Readings Listserv is sponsored by the Yale Collection of American
Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. To post announcements
about poetry and fiction readings, send the full text of the announcement,
including contact information, to <a
href="http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/yale-readings"><span
style='color:blue'>nancy.kuhl at yale.edu.</span></a> Messages sent directly to
the Yale-Readings list may not be posted. <br>
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For more information about Poetry at the Beinecke Library, visit: <a
href="https://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com"><span style='color:blue'>https://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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