New Dominion Bookshop will host a book talk and signing with author and James Madison University professor Sofia Samatar on Saturday, Nov. 2, at 7 p.m.
Samatar will be speaking about her new creative writing craft book, Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life, which was released from Soft Skull Press in August.
A conversation with author and University of Virginia professor Emily Ogden will follow.
This in-person event is free to attend and open to the public.
Opacities is a book about writing, publishing and friendship. Rooted in an epistolary relationship between Samatar and a friend and fellow writer, this collection of meditations traces an attempt to rediscover the intimacy of writing.
Samatar is a writer of fiction and nonfiction, including the memoir The White Mosque, a PEN/Jean Stein Award finalist. Her works range from the award–winning novel A Stranger in Olondria to Tone, a study of literary tone with Kate Zambreno.
Samatar is the Roop Distinguished Professor of English at JMU, where she teaches African literature, Arabic literature and speculative fiction.
Ogden is a professor of English at UVA. She is the author of On Not Knowing: How to Love and Other Essays (University of Chicago Press). She is working on Frailties, a book about Edgar Allan Poe.
New Dominion Bookshop is located at 404 E. Main St. in Charlottesville.
For more information, visit ndbookshop.com.
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Crystal Graham
