UNC Greensboro’s University Libraries will host award-winning author, Amor Towles, for an author talk and a discussion of his new book, “The Lincoln Highway,” on Thursday, May 19, 2022, at 7 p.m. EST. The presentation will be a hybrid event with participants choosing to participate virtually via Zoom or in-person in the Cone Ballroom of the…
Category: Book Discussion
University Libraries Selects Lalami’s The Moor’s Account for Next Book Discussion
University Libraries will host a virtual book club in September and October of novelist and essayist Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account. The book, which won the the American Book Award, the Arab-American Book Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2015, as well as a…
UNCG Alumni & Friends Book Club: Our Next Book Is Here “How to Be an Antiracist”
This summer has seen an unprecedented groundswell of support for the racial justice movement in America. Sparked by the killings of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, uprisings across the country have led to challenging and critical discussions around race and equity. One of the ways we can all work towards a more equitable…
A Book Discussion with Emily Herring Wilson ’61
Image courtesy of Ken Bennett. UNC Greensboro’s University Libraries will host a book discussion of “The Three Graces of Val-Kill” with author Emily Herring Wilson ’61 on Tuesday, October 16, 2018, at 3:30 p.m. in Hodges Reading Room in Jackson Library. “The Three Graces of Val-Kill” changes the way readers think about Eleanor Roosevelt. In her…
