SHAWN WEN: A TWENTY MINUTE SILENCE FOLLOWED BY APPLAUSE Thursday, Oct. 12, 7 p.m., free Letters Bookshop, Durham www.lettersbookshop.com Is a mime a clown? A fool in a box? A dancer, an athlete, an artist? How about a fabricator and a truth teller? Or a little bit of the deepest fear, the most unguarded delight, […]
Kendra Langdon Juskus
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Raleigh Poet Tyree Daye Reads from His American Poetry Review-Prized Debut in the So & So Series
“I am praying/Lord, what do you do/with these words?” So writes Youngsville native Tyree Daye in “Fire Water,” from his first full-length collection, River Hymns. In it, the author answers his own question, using words to materialize the ghosts and losses, the fears and beauty, that have both made and broken him. His book, an […]
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A Chance Encounter with Trump Supporters in D.C. Leads to Resistance Con, an Ambitious New Art and Activism Convention in Durham
PRE-CONVENTION SHOW Friday, June 2, 8 p.m., $15 Motorco Music Hall, Durham www.motorcomusic.com RESISTANCE CON Saturday, June 3 10 a.m.–6 p.m., free–$20 Durham Convention Center www.resistancecon.com RESISTANCE KARAOKE Saturday, June 3, 8 p.m., free The Pinhook, Durham www.thepinhook.com On the day of the Women’s March in Washington, D.C., Holly McKinney stood in a sea of […]
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UNC Visiting Writer April Ayers Lawson Discusses Her Paris Review Prize-Winning Story “Virgin”
April Ayers Lawson and Clare Beams Friday, Nov. 4, 7 p.m., free Flyleaf Books, Chapel HillApril Ayers Lawson made her surprise literary debut—her third publication ever—in The Paris Review’s Fall 2010 issue, with the smart, sensual, and devastating “Virgin,” a finely observed story of lust and infidelity that begins with the sentence, “Jake hadn’t meant […]
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Durham’s Michelle Dove Grows Up Fast in Radio Cacophony, Her First Flash Fiction Collection
RADIO CACOPHONY By Michelle Dove Big Lucks Books, 124 pp. Reading a collection of flash fiction is like hitting Play on the mixtapes of old. It’s held together by a thread of a theme, but each vignette is short, spare, and self-contained. Durhamite Michelle Dove’s first book, Radio Cacophony, is more structured and narrative than […]
