A dystopian novel that becomes more evocative as reality mirrors its bleak fiction, 1984 is a vision of a world controlled by a totalitarian regime where not even your thoughts are safe.
Readers and friends, we’re proud to bring you a very special bonus episode. Last Tuesday, Kiley Reid’s debut novel, Such a Fun Age, was released in paperback. In celebration of the new format, we were thrilled to interview the awarded author.
A professional moderator turned author makes a living telling groups of listeners that the sky is blue, water is wet, and, yes, racism is a reality. A somewhat novel idea, she crafts her conversations with white, not black listeners in mind. She addresses the subject of oppression to the group of people consciously and subconsciously oppressing, and the result earns her a side-eye from every side involved.
Virtual Event: An Evening with Kiley Reid in Celebration of Such a Fun Age’s Paperback Release
- April 16, 2021
- Tagged as: Fiction
You’re invited to join us at an incredible virtual event celebrating the paperback release of Kiley Reid’s best-selling novel Such a Fun Age!
A story about life, living, and the regrets in between, The Midnight Library is a unique invention created to tell a universal truth. It allows the reader to make some secret personal applications with the lessons of our protagonist and her desire to end it all. This story is like our better selves, begging us to listen, putting the medicine in the candy, and it does it all within 300 pages.
A fiction writer and a historian walk into a bar and order a tall glass of racism. They then sit for days, simplifying the contents of their drink, removing all of the fluff, leaving only the truth.
Freedom is knowing who you are while unobstructedly stretching toward your potential or something like that. Look, we’re not as deep as Toni Morrison, but after reading this, the author’s third novel, we were inspired to wax poetic about existential topics like survival and identity.
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