BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Hugo House - ECPv6.3.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Hugo House X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hugohouse.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Hugo House REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211113T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211113T180000 DTSTAMP:20240328T111312 CREATED:20211008T115800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211008T115800Z UID:250184-1636826400-1636826400@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Novel Nights: Sleep Donation by Karen Russell DESCRIPTION:Join us for Novel Nights! At this event\, award-winning author Karen Russell will speak about her book\, Sleep Donation\, with fellow writer Anca Szilágyi. This event will be held virtually. \nTickets: \n$25 general admission\n$100 series pass \nThis event takes place in Pacific Time. Tickets can be purchased at the bottom of the page. \nThis event is sponsored by DeNoma Literary Services. \n\nAbout Sleep Donation\n\nTrish Edgewater is the Slumber Corps’ top recruiter. On the phone\, at a specially organized Sleep Drive\, even in a supermarket parking lot: Trish can get even the most reluctant healthy dreamer to donate sleep to an insomniac in crisis–one of hundreds of thousands of people who have totally lost the ability to sleep. Trish cries\, she shakes\, she shows potential donors a picture of her deceased sister\, Dori: one of the first victims of the lethal insomnia plague that has swept the globe. \nRun by the wealthy and enigmatic Storch brothers\, the Slumber Corps is at the forefront of the fight against this deadly new disease. But when Trish is confronted by “Baby A\,” the first universal sleep donor\, and the mysterious “Donor Y\,” whose horrific infectious nightmares are threatening to sweep through the precious sleep supply\, her faith in the organization and in her own motives begins to falter. \nFully illustrated with dreamy evocations of Russell’s singular imagination and featuring a brand-new “Nightmare Appendix\,” Sleep Donation will keep readers up long into the night and long after haunt their dreams. \n\nAbout the author\nKaren Russell won the 2012 and the 2018 National Magazine Award for fiction\, and her first novel\, Swamplandia! (2011)\, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize\, winner of the New York Public Library Young Lions Award\, and one of The New York Times’ Ten Best Books of 2011. She has received a MacArthur Fellowship and a Guggenheim award and is a former fellow of the NYPL Cullman Center and the American Academy in Berlin. She graduated summa cum laude from Northwestern University and received her MFA from Columbia University’s School of the Arts. Born and raised in Miami\, Florida\, she now lives in Portland\, Oregon with her husband\, son\, and daughter. \n\nAbout the moderator\n\nAnca L. Szilágyi is a Brooklynite living in Chicago. Her fiction appears in Lilith Magazine\, Confrontation\, Fairy Tale Review\, and elsewhere. Her nonfiction appears in Los Angeles Review of Books\, Orion Magazine\, Electric Literature\, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of fellowships and awards from Made at Hugo House\, Jack Straw Cultural Center\, 4Culture\, and Artist Trust. The Stranger hailed Anca as “a fantastic magical realist.” She is the author of Daughters of the Air\, which Shelf Awareness called “a striking debut from a writer to watch” and The Seattle Review of Books called “a creation of unearthly talents.” Her second novel is forthcoming in 2022. \n\nAbout Novel Nights\nPart book club\, part celebration: a novel approach to the literary salon. \n\nWe write because we were readers first—and our love of reading great literature is what sustains us through long\, lonely hours at the writing desk. \nBut books don’t exist only in the solitude of our minds; they come alive in the conversations we have about them. \nAt Novel Nights\, you’ll delve into the depths of books in the company of fellow book-lovers and friends—all while supporting Hugo House. To see a full list of all the Novel Nights events or buy a series pass\, click here. URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/novel-nights-sleep-donation-by-karen-russell/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR