A conversation and book signing.

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Join us for our 12th Annual Authors Gala, celebrating 25 Years of the Walnut Creek Library Foundation! Enjoy drinks, food, and exciting auction items on Saturday, April 29th, 2023 at the Walnut Creek Library.

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Join us at the Veteran's Memorial Theater on Friday, April 28th for a discussion with Karen Joy Fowler, author of Booth, The Jane Austen Book Club, and We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. Fowler will be introduced by local author, Kim Stanley Robinson.

This is a ticketed event. Space is limited.

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Join us for dinner and a book discussion at Gabriella Cafe with author Karen Joy Fowler. Karen will as talk about her new novel Booth. Reserve your spot at Gabriella Cafe on Open Table or by phoning the restaurant at 831 457-1677.

DINNER: 6PM
AUTHOR BOOK DISCUSSION AND READING FROM BOOTH: 7PM
BOOK SIGNING: 7:30PM
BOOKS WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR SALE AT THE SALON

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Award-winning authors Karen Joy Fowler and Katie Hafner in a lively conversation about their newest books! Q&A + signing to follow.

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Karen Joy Fowler joins us to discuss her new novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth. Longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize, Booth explores the multiple scandals, family triumphs, and criminal disasters of the Booth family. Considered the “Best Book of the Year” by NPR and one of the “Most Anticipated Books 2022” by Kirkus Reviews, Booth is a portrait of a country in the throes of change and a vivid exploration of the ties that make, and break, a family. 

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Copies of Booth are available for purchase through the Mark Twain Store; proceeds benefit The Mark Twain House & Museum. Books will be shipped after the event.

Join award-winning author Karen Joy Fowler in conversation with Mary Volmer about her latest book Booth.

Booth is an epic novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history, John Wilkes Booth. Booth is a startling portrait of a country in the throes of change, a vivid exploration of brother and sisterhood, and a riveting historical novel focused on the very things that bind, and break, a family.

Booth was long listed for The Booker Prize and selected as Best Book of the Year by USA Today. Karen Joy Fowler is an award-winning, NY Times best-selling author of four short story collections and six novels including The Jane Austen Book Club, and We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves which was the winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and shortlisted for The Booker Prize.

Books will be available at the program and at Orinda Books.

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Literary Sojourn is an annual festival of authors and readers celebrating the power of the book. Each fall, an esteemed slate of authors and 550 book lovers from all over the country gather in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Together they revel in the written word, fueled by award-winning writers who share the stories and inspiration behind their exceptional books.

Literary Sojourn is a nonprofit author and reader festival presented by the Bud Werner Memorial Library in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Founded in 1993 with a mission to bring noteworthy authors to our mountain community and promote and inspire the reading of exceptional literature, Literary Sojourn is the oldest and most anticipated literary festival in the Rocky Mountains.

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We Knew Them Before They Were Famous:

Historical Fiction with Louis Bayard and Karen Joy Fowler

Ever wondered about the origins of historical figures, before they were famous? Louis Bayard, author of “Jackie & Me,” and Karen Joy Fowler, author of “Booth,” are professionals at doing just that. Delving into the lives of Jackie Kennedy and John Wilkes Booth’s family, Bayard and Fowler imagine their histories from new perspectives. Moderated by Colleen J. Shogan.

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One of the warmest, wittiest voices in fiction gets very serious on what ails modern America – by going back in time. 

Conceived in a moment of despair about America’s inability to effect gun control, Karen Joy Fowler’s latest novel Booth focuses on an historically infamous family, whose eldest son would change the course of America’s destiny. These are the Booths, the family who raised Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, tearing themselves and their country apart in the process. Always proactive and endlessly entertaining, this a writer not to be missed!

A New York Times-bestselling author, Karen Joy Fowler has written three short-story collections and seven novels, of which We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2014. 

Karen will be in conversation with writer and critic Anna Carey.

Presented in association with the Embassy of the United States of America in Dublin.

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Please join History Through Fiction for What's New in Historical Fiction, a regular panel series featuring historical novelists with new and upcoming titles. Moderated by History Through Fiction editor, Colin Mustful, this special panel features: 

Vanessa Hua, author of Forbidden City
Karen Joy Fowler, author of Booth
Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, author of A Women of Endurance
Lorraine Heath, author of Girls of Flight City

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Fiction: History Revisited Panel

In conversation with Agatha French, Benjamin Labatut, and Lee Kravetz.

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Join Karen Joy Fowler to celebrate the publication of her new mesmerising nineteenth-century saga Booth.

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Celebrating the launch of Booth, an epic novel about the infamous, ill-fated Booth family: charmers, liars, drinkers and dreamers, they will change history forever.

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Join New York Times-bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler, in conversation with Neel Mukherjee, to celebrate the publication of her much-anticipated new novel, Booth.

The ‘stream and book’ package includes a unique ticket for the stream, and a copy of the new hardback edition of Booth, deliverable to any UK or international address. The 'Stream' package consists of a ticket to the live stream only. 

For one night only the event will be broadcast on 15 March at 18:30 UK time. It will be available to view up to a week after the event has ended and can be accessed Worldwide. If you live in a time zone that does not suit the initial broadcast time you can watch it at any point after the initial showing for one week.

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Boswell presents an evening of conversation with Man Booker finalist Karen Joy Fowler, author of novels such as We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, for a conversation about her epic new novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth. In conversation with Jane Hamilton, Wisconsin-based author of novels such as The Book of Ruth and The Excellent Lombards.

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Books & Books is excited to join forces with Harvard Book Store for this special conversation with Karen Joy Fowler and Ruth Ozeki! 

From the Man Booker finalist and bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic and intimate novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth.

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OFFSITE & TICKETED IN-PERSON EVENT: Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Man Booker finalist and bestselling local author Karen Joy Fowler (We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves) for a discussion of her highly-anticipated novel Booth—an epic and intimate novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth. Fowler will be in conversation with award-winning writer Elizabeth McKenzie. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz and will take place at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn.

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Third Place Books is proud to partner with Elliott Bay Book Company (Seattle) and Village Books (Bellingham) to present Karen Joy Fowler for a virtual presentation of her new novel, Booth. She will be joined in conversation by Jess Walter, the bestselling author of The Cold Millions.

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In conjunction with Diesel, a Bookstore and Vroman's Bookstore, in conversation with Richard Powers to discuss Bewilderment (W.W. Norton), his highly anticipated follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize winning The Overstory.

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Village Books is joining forces with Third Place Books and Elliott Bay Book Company to bring you this unique virtual event as part of Ruth Ozeki's tour for her new novel, The Book of Form and Emptiness. This is a ticketed event where one ticket includes event access and one autographed copy of Ruth’s book. Tickets are $35.

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