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Judy Juanita

American Book Awards: Judy Juanita, Anthony Cody, Ben Ehrenreich, much more

19 SEPTEMBER 2021 — sunday

The Before Columbus Foundation presents the 2021 American Book Awards, celebrating outstanding literary achievement from America's diverse literary community, honoring the winners: Ayad Akhtar (Homeland Elegies: A Novel, Maisy Card (These Ghosts Are Family), Anthony Cody (Borderland Apocrypha), Ben Ehrenreich (Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time), Johanna Fernández (The Young Lords: A Radical History), Carolyn Forché (In the Lateness of the World: Poems), John Giorno (Great Demon Kings: A Memoir of Poetry, Sex, Art, Death, and Enlightenment), Cathy Park Hong (Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning), Randall Horton ({#289-128}: Poems), Gerald Horne (The Drawing of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century), Robert P. Jones (White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity), Judy Juanita (Manhattan my ass, you're in Oakland), William Melvin Kelley and Aiki Kelley, illustrator (Dunfords Travels Everywheres); the Lifetime Achievement Award winner: Dr. Maryemma Graham; the Walter and Lillian Lowenfels Award for Criticism winner: Shana Redmond (Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson); and the Anti-Censorship Award winner: Jacob Soboroff (Separated: Inside an American Tragedy); celebrate these writers and their work, free, online, 2:00-4:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com)




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  • City Arts and Lectures presents New York Times bestselling author Padma Lakshmi, Love, Loss, and What We Ate, Easy Exotic, Tangy, Tart, Hot & Sweet, in conversation with Peabody Award-winning comedian, director, and producer W. Kamau Bell, Sydney Goldstein Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, $69-$105, 7:30 (https://www.cityarts.net)

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  • Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Rosa Lane, Called Back, 2025 Maine Literary Book Award-winner, and Camille Norton, A Folio for the Dark, Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, two blocks north of Ashby BART, refreshments, free, 7:00 pm PST (poetryflash.org).

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  • City Arts and Lectures presents Nobel Prize-winner Richard H. Thaler and Alex O. Imas discussing their new co-authored book The Winner's Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies in Economic Life, in conversation with author Michael Lewis, Sydney Goldstein Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, $49-$54, 7:30 (https://www.cityarts.net)

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