Julia Alverez's guest appearances

Julia Alverez

The Weekly Reader

Rhody Radio: RI Library Radio Online

"How Will This Pandemic Affect Poetry"

Colson Whitehead

Zadie Smith

Ethan Hawke

Toni Morrison

Dani Shapiro

Wes Moore

Jennifer Weiner

Jericho Brown

Nero Wolfe

George Saunders

Jacqueline Woodson

John Green

Stephen King

Caitlin Moran

Anthony Horowitz

OwlTail

Providence Community Library was thrilled to have writer Julia Alvarez join the first meeting of PCL READS in May, 2020. PCL Reads is a citywide, one book, one community book discussion! Alvarez read from and discussed her new book, Afterlife, and answered audience questions about the novel and her writing process. You can watch the event recording at PCL's YouTube channel.  ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Julia Alvarez left the Dominican Republic for the United States in 1960 at the age of ten. She is the author of six novels, three books of nonfiction, three collections of poetry, and eleven books for children and young adults. She has taught and mentored writers in schools and communities across America and, until her retirement in 2016, was a writer-in-residence at Middlebury College. Her work has garnered wide recognition, including a Latina Leader Award in Literature from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, the Hispanic Heritage Award in Literature, the Woman of the Year by Latina magazine, and inclusion in the New York Public Library's program "The Hand of the Poet: Original Manuscripts by 100 Masters, from John Donne to Julia Alvarez." In the Time of the Butterflies, with over one million copies in print, was selected by the National Endowment for the Arts for its national Big Read program, and in 2013 President Obama awarded Alvarez the National Medal of Arts in recognition of her extraordinary storytelling.   ABOUT THE BOOK: Afterlife is a compact, nimble novel set in this political moment of tribalism and distrust, a novel that asks: What do we owe those in crisis in our families, including, maybe especially, members of our human family? How do we live in a broken world without losing faith in one another or ourselves? And how do we provide an afterlife for those glorious souls we have lost-so we stay true to everything they represent?--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rhodyradio/message

<a href="https://www.provcomlib.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Providence Community Library</a> was thrilled to have writer Julia Alvarez join the first meeting of PCL READS in May, 2020. PCL Reads is a citywide, one book, one community book discussion! Alvarez read from and discussed her new book, <a href="https://catalog.oslri.net/record=b2621852~S1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Afterlife</a>, and answered audience questions about the novel and her writing process. You can watch the event recording at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkhDmcjIk70&amp;list=PLli7Y_CIoROfHe60rhsO01JS08gP71SG_" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PCL's YouTube channel</a>.  ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Julia Alvarez left the Dominican Republic for the United States in 1960 at the age of ten. She is the author of six novels, three books of nonfiction, three collections of poetry, and eleven books for children and young adults. She has taught and mentored writers in schools and communities across America and, until her retirement in 2016, was a writer-in-residence at Middlebury College. Her work has garnered wide recognition, including a Latina Leader Award in Literature from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, the Hispanic Heritage Award in Literature, the Woman of the Year by Latina magazine, and inclusion in the New York Public Library's program "The Hand of the Poet: Original Manuscripts by 100 Masters, from John Donne to Julia Alvarez." In the Time of the Butterflies, with over one million copies in print, was selected by the National Endowment for the Arts for its national Big Read program, and in 2013 President Obama awarded Alvarez the National Medal of Arts in recognition of her extraordinary storytelling.   ABOUT THE BOOK: Afterlife is a compact, nimble novel set in this political moment of tribalism and distrust, a novel that asks: What do we owe those in crisis in our families, including, maybe especially, members of our human family? How do we live in a broken world without losing faith in one another or ourselves? And how do we provide an afterlife for those glorious souls we have lost-so we stay true to everything they represent?--- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rhodyradio/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rhodyradio/message</a>

PCL Reads: Julia Alverez on Writing, Community, & Her Novel Afterlife

Final Draft!  By Sarah McClelland and Rhyan Joyce

Final Draft!  By Sarah McClelland and Rhyan Joyce

"How Will This Pandemic Affect Poetry" by Julia Alverez

Anne Tyler

On this edition of The Weekly Reader, our book critic Marion Winik reviews two new great novels by two great writers: Anne Tyler's Redhead by the Side of the Road and Julia Alverez's Afterlife.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this edition of The Weekly Reader, our book critic Marion Winik reviews two new great novels by two great writers: Anne Tyler's Redhead by the Side of the Road and Julia Alverez's Afterlife.See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

New Fiction from Anne Tyler and Julia Alverez