Fall for the Book 2019 has ended

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Fall for the Book 2019

9:00am EDT

Call & Response: TRANSMOGRIFY Fenwick Gallery, 1st Floor

10:00am EDT

War Comes Home: The Legacy Center for the Arts Lobby

10:30am EDT

Building a World: 3 Authors Discuss Time, Place, and Character Johnson Center, 3rd Floor, Meeting Room GBruce Holsinger • J. Ryan Stradal • Carrie Callaghan For the Love of Basketball Johnson Center, 3rd Floor, Meeting Room AIan Johnson Inclusivity in the University: Examining Affirmative Action Johnson Center, 3rd Floor, Meeting Room EAmaka Okechukwu Worlds Apart: Islamic Revival in France and India Research Hall, Room 163Fareen Parvez

11:50am EDT

If You Build It, He Will Come Stacy C. Sherwood Community CenterWilliam Steele

12:00pm EDT

Breaking Glass Ceilings with Silver Screen Women Johnson Center, 3rd Floor, Meeting Room GElizabeth Weitzman The Rise and Fall of Uber Johnson Center, 3rd Floor, Meeting Room FDavid Weigel • Mike Isaac Making Friends and Saving Family Johnson Center, 3rd Floor, Meeting Room EFrank Morelli

1:30pm EDT

Call & Response: Transmogrify Panel Fenwick Library Reading Room, 2nd Floor Room 2001 For the Love of Basketball Johnson Center, 3rd Floor, Meeting Room AIan Johnson Poems at the Edge of the Universe Johnson Center, 3rd Floor, Meeting Room FStephanie Strickland Because I’m A Woman: Nana Rawlings on Leadership in Ghana Lecture Hall 1, George Mason UniversityNana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings Gender, Power, & Violence in the #MeToo Era Research Hall, Room 163Earl Smith • Angela Hattery Justice & A Free Market: Saving Capitalism from Capitalists Johnson Center, 3rd Floor, Meeting Room ESteven Pearlstein To Look For America: The Truth about Abraham Lincoln Johnson Center, 3rd Floor, Meeting Room GSteven Johnston

2:15pm EDT

American Bard: Walt Whitman, Himself Osher Lifelong Learning InstituteJean Huets

3:00pm EDT

Stories of the Strange, the Surreal, and the Uncanny Johnson Center, 3rd Floor, Meeting Room FTara Campbell • Elise Levine A Journey Toward Love and Self-Acceptance Research Hall, Room 163Samantha Mann Life in Observation Johnson Center, 3rd Floor, Meeting Room EJennifer Militello • Lia Purpura Memoirs of the #MeToo Era Johnson Center, 3rd Floor, Meeting Room GKaren Stefano • Jeannie Vanasco

4:30pm EDT

MFA Fellows Reading Research Hall, Room 163Lisa DesRochers-Short • Abi Newhouse • Sofia Puente-Lay • Caely McHale Monsters & Men: Revelations Through Hauntings Johnson Center, 3rd Floor, Meeting Room ED. M. Pulley • Clifford Garstang • Randon Billings Noble

6:00pm EDT

Between Convention and Freedom Fenwick Library Reading Room, 2nd Floor Room 2001Bella Pollen RESCHEDULED: The Beck Environmental Lecture: Sounding the Alarm Harris Theater, George Mason UniversityDavid Wallace-Wells

7:00pm EDT

American Horror Story? The Lost Colony of Roanoke Kings Park LibraryAndrew Lawler Unsung Heroes and Untold Stories of World War II Pohick Regional LibraryMichael Dobbs • Peter Finn Unearthed Roots: One Woman’s Journey to Find Family City of Fairfax Regional LibraryMargaret McMullan Better Said Than Done Presents True Lies: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them The Auld ShebeenJessica Robinson • Jack Scheer • Catherine Calvin • Lisa Lipkind Leibow • Miriam Nadel • Cyndi Wish • Sufian Zhemukhov Institute for Immigration Research New American Voices Award Ceremony Grand Tier III, Center for the ArtsReyna Grande • E.C. Osondu • Melissa Rivero • Angie Kim • Eugenia Kim

7:30pm EDT

Vietnam in Words & Memories: John Mason Shares His Story Civil War Interpretive Center at Historic BlenheimJohn Mason On Walking: History, Writers, and Poetry Fenwick Library Reading Room, 2nd Floor Room 2001Cole Swensen What Would YOU Do? Confronting Ethical Dilemmas Johnson Center, 3rd Floor, Meeting Room EJacob M. Appel

9:00pm EDT

Searching For Answers in South Korea Merten Hall, Room 1201Alice Stephens • Eugenia Kim

9:00am EDT

Book Review Colloquium on Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies Merten Hall, Room 1203Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies

10:30am EDT

Conflict and the Art of the Short Story Sandy Spring Bank Tent, Merten Lawn TentJacob M. Appel • Caroline Bock Excessive Force: Examining Police Brutality Piedmont Hall Room 104Loretta Prater So You Want to Write for a National Magazine? Research Hall, Room 163Ken Budd

11:00am EDT

Edible Book Festival 1014 Fenwick Library

12:00pm EDT

Society, Secrets, and Sexual Misconduct Sandy Spring Bank Tent, Merten Lawn TentPatricia Smith • Aaron Hamburger Sports and Politics: Are They on the Same Playing Field? Research Hall, Room 163Etan Thomas

12:30pm EDT

Why We Should All Be Feminists Concert Hall, Center for the ArtsChimamanda Ngozi Adichie

1:00pm EDT

Slavery, Freedom Seekers, & Heroes Osher Lifelong Learning InstituteJenny Masur • Char McCargo Bah

1:30pm EDT

The Age of Neoliberal Apartheid Research Hall, Room 163Andy Clarno The Birth of a Journalist Enterprise Hall, Room 80Peter Copeland

3:00pm EDT

In the Circle Game: Life, Love & Our Many Selves Fenwick Library Reading Room, 2nd Floor Room 2001Ann Townsend • Jona Colson

4:00pm EDT

Mason’s Alumni Reading Fenwick Library Reading Room, 2nd Floor Room 2001Tracy Zeman • Kathy Goodkin • Anthony Grooms • Tara Laskowski

4:30pm EDT

Escape Room: Search for the Boogerloo Burke Centre LibraryMark Maciejewski • Chris Tebbetts • Rob Vlock • Jan Gangsei

5:30pm EDT

Cults, Faith, and Complicated Love Fenwick Library Reading Room, 2nd Floor Room 2001R.O. Kwon

6:00pm EDT

Poetry Night Out Epicure CafeBrenda Shaughnessy • Lana K. W. Austin • Brian Brodeur

6:30pm EDT

Musical Barn Raising: How to Nurture Music in Your Community Old Town HallGayla Mills

7:30pm EDT

CANCELLED: Rainbow Rowell Answers: What Happens After the Chosen One Saves the Day? Stacy C. Sherwood Community CenterRainbow Rowell

10:00am EDT

Hyper Bole Johnson Center, George Mason UniversitySplit This Rock

10:30am EDT

Let’s Pretend! A Poetry Workshop for Kids Old Town HallElizabeth Steinglass (Un)Real: Shaping Memory & Identity Merten Hall, Room 1203André Alexis • Tope Folarin Uncovering the Real Lolita Merten Hall, Room 1201Art Taylor • Sarah Weinman Teach Them Well & Let Them Lead: Writing Better Stories for Children Sandy Spring Bank Tent, Merten Lawn TentKiara Brown • Maria Ribbing Cornell • Michael D. Gatson • Keosha Sath Diverging Roads: Teenagers Face Choices and Consequences Merten Hall, Room 1202Anna Bright • Chris Tebbetts • Mia García

11:30am EDT

CANCELLED: Ticketed Event: First Words for Young Writers Merten Hall, Room 2500Katy Upperman • Christina June

11:45am EDT

Exploring with Your Imagination! Old Town HallRussell Ginns Love and Loss in the Caribbean Merten Hall, Room 1203Curdella Forbes • Katia D. Ulysse Politics & Pretend: Reality Meets Fiction Merten Hall, Room 1202Henry G. Brinton • Christina Dalcher • Raima Larter Sweet Little Lies: How Secrets Can Shape a Story Sandy Spring Bank Tent, Merten Lawn TentG.M. Malliet • John Gilstrap • Laurie Loewenstein • Erica Wright Let’s Get in Formation: Preventing Future Charlottesvilles Merten Hall, Room 1201Governor Terry McAuliffe • Steve Kettmann

12:00pm EDT

A Celebration of 20 Years of Kid Pan Alley Harris Theater, George Mason UniversityPaul Reisler

1:00pm EDT

Flowers and Fishes, Oh My! Old Town HallSusan Stockdale I Will Survive: Exploring the Human Condition in the Face of Chaos Sandy Spring Bank Tent, Merten Lawn TentRyan Chapman • Adam Nemett • Jason Gray Dead Rabbits Podcast: Uncertain Futures with Atia Abawi Merten Hall, Room 1203Atia Abawi • Brian Birnbaum Now I Long For Yesterday: Searching for Truth Merten Hall, Room 1202Rion Amilcar Scott • Susan Richards Shreve • Helon Habila A League to Bring their Husbands Home Merten Hall, Room 1201Heath Hardage Lee

1:30pm EDT

CANCELLED: Ticketed Event: Learn to Write Poetry with Mark Fitzgerald Merten Hall, Room 2500Mark Fitzgerald

2:15pm EDT

Only the Lonely: Desire and Obsession to Belong Sandy Spring Bank Tent, Merten Lawn TentMona Awad • Laura Sims Surreal Space Age Stories Merten Hall, Room 1201Erika Swyler • Zach Powers Bringing Ancient Stories to Life! A Live Drawing Old Town HallGareth Hinds Red Truck Bakery: Southern Recipes and Samples to Share Merten Hall, Room 1203Brian Noyes The Hurdles and Highs of Teenhood Merten Hall, Room 1202Lauren Morrill • Sarvenaz Tash • Olivia Hinebaugh • Christina June

3:30pm EDT

You Can Be a Leader, Too Old Town HallJanet Howell • Theresa Howell Where the Crawdads Sing: A Conversation with Delia Owens Harris Theater, George Mason UniversityDelia Owens One Giant Leap For Mankind Merten Hall, Room 1201James Donovan Mason’s Creative Nonfiction Alumni Reading Merten Hall, Room 1202Jessie Szalay • Emily Heiden • Rajpreet Heir • Kerry Folan A Year of Poetry Daily: Panel, Reading, and Reception Merten Hall, Room 1203Brian Teare • Yona Harvey • Amaud Jamaul Johnson

5:00pm EDT

Killers of the Flower Moon: David Grann on Murder and the FBI Harris Theater, George Mason UniversityDavid Grann

8:00pm EDT

Literary Death Match Harris Theater, George Mason UniversityZach Powers • Kasha Patel • Rion Amilcar Scott • Tayla Burney • Christina Dalcher • Randon Billings Noble • Amaud Jamaul Johnson • Adrian Todd Zuniga