Azar Nafisi -- "Read Dangerously," with Jacki Lyden
Categories: Literary Virtual Event
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Saturday, Mar 19, 2022 5pm - 6pm
Location
Boulder Bookstore
1107 Pearl St
Details
Boulder Book Store and Books & Books/Miami Book Fair invite you to join Azar Nafisi for a conversation about her new book, "Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times," on Saturday, March 19th, at 5:00 pm MT / 7:00 pm ET on Zoom. She will be in conversation with Jacki Lyden.
Your ticket includes admission to this virtual event and a hardcover copy of "Read Dangerously." The Zoom link will be emailed to you prior to the event. Tickets are available on Eventbrite.
About the Book:
What is the role of literature in an era when one political party wages continual war on writers and the press? What is the connection between political strife in our daily lives, and the way we meet our enemies on the page in fiction? How can literature, through its free exchange, affect politics?
In this galvanizing guide to literature as resistance, Nafisi seeks to answer these questions. Drawing on her experiences as a woman and voracious reader living in the Islamic Republic of Iran, her life as an immigrant in the United States, and her role as literature professor in both countries, she crafts an argument for why, in a genuine democracy, we must engage with the enemy, and how literature can be a vehicle for doing so.
Structured as a series of letters to her father, who taught her as a child about how literature can rescue us in times of trauma, Nafisi explores the most probing questions of our time through the works of Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, James Baldwin, Margaret Atwood, and more.
IMPORTANT TICKETING AND EVENT INFORMATION
*Tickets include a hardcover copy of "Read Dangerously."
--IN-STORE BOOK PICKUP with EVENT ACCESS -- $26.99 (plus tax and a small processing fee) for the Zoom link, and a copy of the book. Books will be available for in-store pickup at Boulder Book Store starting on March 8th. You will be emailed separately when your book is ready for pickup.
--STANDARD BOOK SHIPPING with EVENT ACCESS -- $31.99 (plus a small processing fee) for the Zoom link, and a copy of the book. Books will be available on March 8th, and we will begin shipping books that day. US shipping ONLY.
--PRIORITY BOOK SHIPPING with EVENT ACCESS -- $36.99 (plus a small processing fee) for the Zoom link, and a copy of the book. Books will be available on March 8th, and we will begin shipping books that day. US shipping ONLY.
* The virtual event begins at 4:00 pm PT / 5:00 pm MT / 7:00 pm ET.
