Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021, 1:00 pm Mountain Time The Montana Book Festival and the National Book Critics Circle are hosting a conversation with Sterling HolyWhiteMountain, Kirstin Valdez Quade, and Kristiana Kahakauwila about how the history (read: violence) of the American West is mined in order to write contemporary literature toward and about the region today. NBCC
The Guild Literary Complex and the National Book Critics Circle present: Exhibit B No. 8 - Sept. 11 at 4:30 p.m. CDT. Exhibit B is an experimental performance series featuring accessible, multimodal art by diverse, community-conscious artists in Chicago and beyond. This performance—the collective's eighth—will be at Printer's Row Lit Fest and feature performances by Ignatius Valentine
(L-R): David Mura, Lisa Teasley, Myriam Gurba, Erik Gleibermann Just as astute fiction writers build their racial awareness to portray racial realities outside their own, discerning literary critics can develop such awareness to review books with unfamiliar racial experience.