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  • Author of "The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature," J. Drew Lanham October 28, 2021 at 7:30 pm – 7:30 pm Online J. Drew Lanham is the author of The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature, which received the Reed Award from the Southern Environmental Law Center and the Southern Book Prize and was a finalist for the John Burroughs Medal. He is a birder, naturalist, and hunter-conservationist who has published essays…
  • Author of "All Our Names," Dinaw Mengestu November 11, 2021 at 7:30 pm – 7:30 pm Online Dinaw Mengestu is the author of three novels, all of which were named New York Times Notable Books: All Our Names, How To Read the Air, and The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears. A native of Ethiopia who came with his family to the United States at the age of two, Mengestu is also a…

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