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SUMMARY:Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures Ten Evenings Series: Nicholas Boggs — Baldwin: A Love Story
DESCRIPTION:Drawing on new archival material\, original research\, and interviews\, this spellbinding book is the first major biography of James Baldwin in three decades\, revealing how profoundly his personal relationships shaped his life and work.\n\n\n\nBaldwin: A Love Story\, the first major biography of James Baldwin in three decades\, reveals how profoundly the writer’s personal relationships shaped his life and work. Drawing on newly uncovered archival material and original research and interviews\, this spellbinding book tells the overlapping stories of Baldwin’s most sustaining intimate and artistic relationships: with his mentor\, the Black American painter Beauford Delaney; with his lover and muse\, the Swiss painter Lucien Happersberger; and with his collaborators\, the famed Turkish actor Engin Cezzar and the iconoclastic French artist Yoran Cazac\, whose long-overlooked significance as Baldwin’s last great love is explored in these pages for the first time.\n\n\n\nNicholas Boggs shows how Baldwin drew on all the complex forces within these relationships—geographical\, cultural\, political\, artistic\, and erotic—and alchemized them into novels\, essays\, and plays that speak truth to power and had an indelible impact on the civil rights movement and on Black and queer literary history. Richly immersive\, Baldwin: A Love Story follows the writer’s creative journey between Harlem\, Paris\, Switzerland\, the southern United States\, Istanbul\, Africa\, the South of France\, and beyond. In so doing\, it magnifies our understanding of the public and private lives of one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century\, whose contributions only continue to grow in influence. \nNicholas Boggs was an undergraduate when he discovered James Baldwin’s out-of-print children’s book\, Little Man\, Little Man: A Story of Childhood\, in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. After he tracked down its illustrator\, the French artist Yoran Cazac\, he went on to coedit an acclaimed new edition of the book in 2018. His writing has also been anthologized in The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin\, James Baldwin Now\, and Speculative Light: The Arts of Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin. He is the recipient of a 2023 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the Beinecke Library and Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale\, the Schomburg Center Scholars-in-Residence Program\, and the National Humanities Center\, as well as residencies at Yaddo and MacDowell. He received his BA in English from Yale\, his MFA in creative writing from American University\, and his PhD in English from Columbia. Born and raised in Washington\, DC\, he lives in Brooklyn\, New York.
URL:https://qburgh.com/event/pittsburgh-arts-lectures-ten-evenings-series-nicholas-boggs-baldwin-a-love-story/
LOCATION:Carnegie Music Hall\, 4440 Forbes Avenue\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15222\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Launch! Katie Chandler's Triple Threat in conversation with Chloe Liese
DESCRIPTION:Join PA native Katie Chandler for the launch of her next steamy\, sporty\, queer romance\, Triple Threat. Katie will be in conversation with local romcom legend (and beloved bestie of White Whale)\, Chloe Liese.\nFrom the author of the “exquisite” (The New York Times) Backhanded Compliments\, a steamy sports romance about a disgraced tennis star\, the ex-pro who becomes her coach\, and the soulmate they share. Perfect for fans of “Challengers” and Carrie Soto Is Back. \nOctavia Ricci has spent her entire life proving she doesn’t need anyone—especially not her father\, the controlling coach who built her career and broke her spirit. But after a public meltdown at the Australian Open\, the icy Grand Slam champion isn’t sure if she ever wants to play again. She agrees to take it one tournament at a time\, now under a new coach\, determined to find her footing and love of the game again. \nAriel de Cordova was once the next big thing in tennis until a devastating injury ended his career. Now\, with his confidence shot\, he’s not sure he can handle another player’s comeback story—especially not a player as volatile as Octavia. But as they practice\, they both tentatively open up about their experiences and begin to heal their deepest wounds. \nThe only stable\, grounding presence in Octavia’s life is her soulmate\, Leo Mantovani. But he has two soulmarks on his wrist\, and when Leo shakes hands with Octavia’s new coach for the first time\, Ariel turns out to be Leo’s other soulmate. Knowing the optics of a player-coach relationship aren’t ideal\, they decide to keep their relationship secret and surface-level. \nWhile Octavia\, Ariel\, and Leo fight to keep their relationship private\, the tennis world is watching their every move. But when the spotlight turns harsh and old wounds resurface\, they’ll have to decide if love is worth risking their careers\, their reputations\, and their hearts in this “magnetic” (Publishers Weekly) romance novel. \nKATIE CHANDLER is a romance author who loves adding a speculative twist to her kissing books. She is passionate about writing joyful queer love stories that are full of tenderness\, angst\, and spice. You can usually find Katie writing with a full iced caffeine beverage\, a Taylor Swift album blasting\, and her yellow lab\, Blue\, who makes sure her feet are toasty and that she takes regular breaks to give him treats. When not writing\, Katie spends her time watching tennis with her snuggly black lab\, Bunny\, chasing her thieving chocolate lab\, Bear\, who thinks her socks are his chew toys\, and wondering where her glasses are (they’re nestled in her hair). \nCHLOE LIESE is a USA TODAY bestselling author who writes romantic fiction reflecting her belief that everyone deserves a love story. She is the author of Happy Ending and two romantic family sagas\, the Bergman Brothers and Wilmot Sisters.
URL:https://qburgh.com/event/book-launch-katie-chandlers-triple-threat-in-conversation-with-chloe-liese/
LOCATION:White Whale Books & Coffee\, 4754 Liberty Avenue\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15224\, United States
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