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THE LIES THAT BIND

In a conversation moderated by Erin Christovale of the Hammer Museum, Kwame Anthony Appiah and Njideka Akunyili Crosby will discuss twenty-first-century identity politics and the appropriation of culture.

Anthony Appiah is The Ethicist columnist for the New York Times , and Akunyili Crosby is one of the many artists featured in the new documentary The Price of Everything.

 

THE LIES THAT BIND—RETHINKING IDENTITY

Thursday, October 25, at 7:30 pm.

Mark Taper Auditorium, Central Library, 630 West 5th Street, downtown Los Angeles.

Above image credit: W.W, Norton.

Below: Kwame Anthony Appiah, on couch, surrounded by his sisters and parents, 1969. Image courtesy of the author.

RACHEL KUSHNER IN CONVERSATION

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This week, join Rachel Kushner and Danzy Senna for a conversation about Kushner’s new novel THE MARS ROOM.

 

RACHEL KUSHNER – THE MARS ROOM, Thursday, May 10, at 7:30 pm.

CENTRAL LIBRARY, 630 West 5th Street, downtown Los Angeles.

lfla.org/the-mars-room

See: newyorker.com/rachel-kushner

Rachel Kushner reading from The Flamethrowers (2013).

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ABDELLAH TAÏA IN CONVERSATION

Abdellah Taïa joins West Hollywood City Poet Steven Reigns for a discussion about Taïa’s novel Infidels. Published in 2016 by Seven Stories Press, Infidels is the story of Jallal, a young gay Muslim and son of a prostitute witch doctor. This ALOUD program at the Central Library is presented by the Library Foundation of Los Angeles.

Taïa was born in Morocco in 1973 and lives in Paris, and his books include L’Armée du salut/Salvation Army (2009), An Arab Melancholia (2012), and Another Morocco: Selected Stories (2017), all from Semiotext(e). Taïa’s film version of L’Armée played Outfest Los Angeles in 2014.

 

INFIDELS: A NOVEL — ABDELLAH TAÏA IN CONVERSATION WITH POET STEVEN REIGNS, Wednesday, April 12 at 7:15 pm.

TAPER AUDITORIUM, CENTRAL LIBRARY, downtown Los Angeles

 

lfla.org/event/infidels-a-novel/

sevenstories.com/pg/about

sevenstories.com/authors/387-abdellah-taia

semiotexte.com/

Abdellah Taïa, Infidels Image credit: Seven Stories Press

Abdellah Taïa, Infidels
Image credit: Seven Stories Press