Mini Fest with Fall for the Book

Fall for the Book's Mini Fest is back at George Mason University with an all-new lineup! All events are FREE and are in Fenwick Library (Room 2001) on Mason's Fairfax Campus. Full details: https://fallforthebook.org/minifest/

10:30: Reinvented Women: Dating Silky Maxwell - TJ Butler

TJ Butler’s debut short story collection, Dating Silky Maxwell, contends with down-to-earth women grappling with difficult circumstances. The stories focus on each characters’ agency as they take their power back.

12 p.m.: The Authorized P-Funk Son Reference - Daniel Bedrosian

Daniel Bedrosian, the keyboardist for the band George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic, discusses The Authorized P-Funk Song Reference: Official Canon of Parliament-Funkadelic, 1956-2023. Bedrosian compiles almost seventy years of information about this band’s long history, ranging from albums, songs, anecdotes, and rare photographs.

1:30 p.m. - Oathbreakers: A Medieval War of Brothers - Matthew Gabriele

Matthew Gabriele's book Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers That Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe chronicles the Carolingian Civil War, which was a dramatic episode in history–simultaneously personal and political.

4:30 p.m. - The Road to the Salt Sea - Samuel Kọ́láwọlé

Samuel Kọ́láwọlé’s debut novel, The Road to the Salt Sea, depicts the journey of Able God, an ordinary Nigerian man who gets caught up in a web of danger and must flee for his own survival.

6 p.m. - Storytelling with Steve Almond

Steve Almond’s Truth is the Arrow, Mercy is the Bow: A DIY Manual for the Construction of Stories challenges the myths of writing as a means to open up the joy of writing. Almond uses irreverence and humor, as well as his decades-long experiences as both a writer and a teacher to change the way people think about storytelling.

Thank you to Virginia Humanities for making this programming possible.

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