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Your WELL membership now gives you access to our Mastodon server and the entire Fediverse, in addition to the rich conversations in our local conferences. The Fediverse is an internet-wide social network. free of advertising, algorithms, and corporate objectives. Join us and see Mastodon Quick Start Guide to join the worldwide conversation today!
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Jonathan Lethem: Brooklyn Crime Novel, beginning September 9, 2024
We’re honored to have author Jonathan Lethem as our guest in the WELL’s public Inkwell.vue conference for the next two weeks. Jonathan will be discussing his life and work, especially his latest, Brooklyn Crime Novel, winner of the New York City Book Award. Jonathan is the author of thirteen novels; his work has been translated into over thirty languages. Please join us!
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Featured Recently in The Inkwell
Unlike most conversations on The WELL, you don’t need a WELL member account to participate – this one is open to all!
Erin Bow: Simon Sort of Says, August 27 - September 9, 2024
Inkwell welcomes author Erin Bow, who will discuss the writing life, and her Newbery Honor Award-winning book _SIMON SORT OF SAYS_. The book was long-listed for the National Book Award, and won a Schneider Family Book Award. And we’ll also focus on the life of writing and the writing life. Erin was trained as a physicist but somehow ended up writing poetry and children’s fiction. She is the author of three volumes of poetry (writing as Erin Noteboom) and six novels for younger readers.
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Donn Harris: This Darkness Has Got to Give
Donn Harris: This Darkness Has Got to Give in conversation with David Gans June 18 – July 1
Donn Harris, author of _This Darkness Has Got to Give: Post-Kindergarten Lessons from the Grateful Dead_, about how the Grateful Dead influenced more than just the music world. The Dead were part of a time not unlike the Camelot we attribute to the Kennedy era, or the gospel and blues foundation of the Civil Rights movement’s powerful social and artistic forces and how they combined to give us our own Renaissance, a rebirth that broke free from an oppressive past.