In conversation with Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

After extensive calendar wrestling and offering up a few sacrifices here and there, I have some exciting news: our live interview and Q&A session with Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is coming next week.

The session will start promptly at 7pm Eastern/4pm Pacific on Tuesday March 25. I’ll send calendar invites to all paying club members, and will send out one more email reminder with a link before the event.

We’ve only got Ayana for half hour, so we’ll have to make it count!

That means if you have questions in advance, especially if you know you can’t make it and want to ask something, email them over to [email protected] and I’ll try to ask them.

Since this will be our first live session in a while, I’ll quickly go over our basic Zoom etiquette:
- Be respectful of everyone taking part.
- Remember the entire session is being recorded and may be shared later with club members. (However, if we share any videos publicly, we not include club members)
- Your camera doesn’t have to be on, but everyone should remain muted unless called upon.

If folks want to stick around to discuss the book further once Ayana has left, we have another 30 minutes available. I’m looking forward to seeing you, hope you can make it!

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And I’ll sign off with a few incoming bits from around the Curiverse.

First, big news for Adam Higginbotham—his Challenger (CUR010, February 25) just won best non-fiction book at the National Book Critics Circle Awards—congratulations to him!

I don’t think I had previously mentioned this New Yorker piece by Kyle Chayka (Filterworld, CUR008, December 24) on Donald Trump’s use of AI-generated propaganda but it’s worth a look. (“In the real world, Trump’s vision of Gaza as an ethnically cleansed luxury resort may seem like political fantasy,” he writes. “But, on the internet, Trump Gaza already exists as a virtual beachside destination to like and to share.”)

Meanwhile I just caught up with a brief-but-interesting interview that the Women’s Prize ran with Rebecca Nagle (By The Fire We Carry, CUR007 November 24).

And finally… a reminder that we have a few back copies of previous picks still available if you want to pick up a single copy of something you missed. You can see them all in our store.

Onward!

Bobbie