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Three DEIA Workshops — Stepping Out of Your Comfort Zone: Knowing Better Means Doing Better | February 14–16

Please note: If you signed up for the in-person version of these sessions when registering for the canceled 2022 Winter Institute, you must re-register to attend the online sessions in February. Register.

Town Hall | February 17, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm ET
The full board will respond to questions and comments from bookstore owners and booksellers; those who would like to send questions in advance can email townhall@bookweb.org. Register.

Snow Days: A Virtual Bookselling Retreat | March 8–10

This new event will feature live and recorded educational programming, authors, and networking opportunities. Take a look at the full program and register.

And, we are delighted to announce an exciting Snow Days keynote called Storytelling in the Cultural Moment. 

Toni Morrison famously said, “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.” Join authors Jennifer Egan, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, and Celeste Ng in conversation with author/bookseller Emma Straub for a discussion on how recent shifts in culture, isolation, and technology have affected what they want to read and what they want to write.

Jennifer Egan is the author of The Candy House (on-sale 4/5/22) as well as six previous books of fiction: Manhattan Beach, winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction; A Visit from the Goon Squad, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Keep; the story collection Emerald City; Look at Me, a National Book Award Finalist; and The Invisible Circus. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Granta, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine. 

Kali Fajardo-Anstine is the author of Sabrina & Corina, a finalist for the National Book Award, the PEN/Bingham Prize, The Story Prize, and winner of an American Book Award. She received the 2021 American Academy of Arts and Letters' Metcalf Award and is the winner of the Denver Mayor’s Award for Global Impact in the Arts and MPIBA's Reading the West Award. She is the 2022/2023 Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at Texas State University.

Celeste Ng is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and her work has been published in over 30 languages.

Emma Straub is the bestselling author of the novels All Adults Here, The Vacationers, Modern Lovers, Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures, and the forthcoming This Time Tomorrow. She and her husband own Books Are Magic, an independent bookstore in Brooklyn, New York.