Booker Prize finalist and award-winning author of The Book of Form and Emptiness Ruth Ozeki returns for a reading from her dazzling debut story collection, The Typing Lady.
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Porter Square Books is thrilled to welcome Ruth Ozeki for the release of her latest book, The Typing Lady. Julia Glass will join Ozeki in conversation.
This event will take place offsite at St. James Episcopal Church in Cambridge.
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Join Ruth Ozeki—internationally acclaimed and award-winning novelist and filmmaker—for a special conversation with the award-winning host of “Press Play” Madeleine Brand, celebrating her forthcoming collection, The Typing Lady And Other Fictions. Known for her metafictional work and deep interest in science, environmental politics, global pop culture, memory, and meaning, Ozeki brings her signature wisdom to this spellbinding series of stories.
Spanning eras and geographies, the collection explores the lives we almost lived, the people we can’t quite forget, and the narratives that quietly shape us.
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FREE IN-STORE EVENT: Bookshop welcomes Booker Prize finalist Ruth Ozeki (A Tale for the Time Being), who will share her spellbinding story collection The Typing Lady: And Other Fictions about the lives we almost lived, the people we can't quite forget, and the stories that shape us long after the last page is turned.
Ozeki will be in conversation with Karen Joy Fowler at this event, which is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
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Bestselling author Ruth Ozeki returns to Kepler’s with The Typing Lady, her riveting new short story collection.
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Join us on Wednesday, June 3 at 7 PM as Ruth Ozeki launches her new collection of stories, The Typing Lady. She will be joined in conversation by Kelly Link.
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Please join us here at Barnes & Noble Upper West Side in welcoming Ruth Ozeki for a discussion of THE TYPING LADY at a live taping of B&N's Poured Over Podcast with Miwa Messer. This even is open to the public and free to attend. A purchase of THE TYPING LADY from Barnes & Noble Upper West Side is required to join the signing line at this event. Please call ahead and speak to a bookseller and reserve your copy.
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The first story collection from the Booker Prize finalist and winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction is cause for celebration; Ozeki will be at Portobello in conversation with Sam Baker, host of The Shift podcast.
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Ruth Ozeki in conversation with Sarah Crown, director of Literature at the Arts Council and former Guardian books editor.
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A huge treat for Ruth Ozeki fans as she visits the Hay Festival for the first time. Ahead of publication, Ozeki exclusively unveils her first ever collection of short stories. In conversation with the broadcaster, Samira Ahmed, Ozeki introduces the 11 stories which make up The Typing Lady – each with characters standing at thresholds in their lives: childhood ambition, youthful desire, mid‑life reinvention, and the clarity of old age. For readers of Ozeki’s prize-winning The Book of Form and Emptiness, this is a wonderful opportunity to hear from the author herself about her latest brilliant creation.
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What makes short stories so compelling?
In this conversation, authors Colm Tóibín and Ruth Ozeki come together to reflect on their new collections and on what draws them to short form at this stage in their writing lives.
Tóibín’s ‘The News from Dublin’ returns to themes of memory, place and inner life with his characteristic clarity, while Ozeki’s ‘The Typing Lady and Other Fictions’, her first collection of short stories, marks a new direction in a career known for its formal range and intellectual curiosity. Talking across borders and traditions, they explore what short stories allow that novels do not and why brevity can sometimes carry the deepest emotional force.
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Dive into Ruth Ozeki’s latest work, The Typing Lady, with the award-winning author herself as she appears in conversation with Cathy Rentzenbrink.
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Join us for an evening of readings from local honorees of this year's Mass Book Awards, presented by Forbes Library and the Center for the Book: Gary Metras, Rebecca Olander, Lesléa Newman, Ruth Ozeki, and Martín Espada.
Signed copies of Ruth’s books will be available from Broadside Books.
Be there in person or watch the livestream via YouTube.
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Celebrate the power of books to create a stronger community by attending the 2023 Everybody Reads author event with Ruth Ozeki!
In partnership with Multnomah County Library and The Library Foundation, Literary Arts is proud to present a lecture by bestselling author Ruth Ozeki as the culminating event of Everybody Reads 2023. Everybody Reads is an annual community-wide project that promotes shared reading and discussion around a single book. This year’s programming will center on Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being, a finalist for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Copies of the book are available for free at all Multnomah County Library branches thanks to the generosity of The Library Foundation.
COMMUNITY TICKETS: Free and reduced-priced tickets are available to this event. Learn more here.
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Speaking Volumes
The BookMarks of the Marion Public Library present:
A fundraiser event featuring bestselling author Ruth Ozeki
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This fall, Burlington will once again hold an annual celebration of literature. The Green Mountain Book Festival, a newly minted nonprofit, will bring authors and readers to the Queen City's downtown from September 23 through 25. Headlined by Ruth Ozeki.
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Smith Reads is a first-year reading experience for all students new to Smith College. This includes first-year students, Ada Comstock Scholars, and visiting and transfer students. The Smith Reads selection of 2022-2023 is The Book of Form and Emptiness.
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An evening in honor of the paperback launch of The Book of Form and Emptiness.
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An evening in honor of the paperback launch of The Book of Form and Emptiness.
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Chaired by this year’s Chair of Judges, Mary Ann Sieghart, and hosted by Founder Director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction and bestselling author Kate Mosse, the event will feature readings and interviews with all six of the 2022 shortlisted authors, plus discussion about the nominated books and their impact in this remarkable year, and the opportunity to put your questions to the speakers live.
Gates open at 6pm; the event will begin at 7pm and will be followed by book signings.
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Ruth Ozeki in conversation with Jaffé and Neale Bookshop and Café, discussing her new novel The Book of Form & Emptiness.
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The Booker Prize-shortlisted author of A Tale for the Time Being returns. Ozeki’s new novel, The Book of Form and Emptiness, is both a vivid portrait of a small family enduring unimaginable loss, and a powerful meditation on how books can provide meaning and order in a tumultuous world. With early admirers including Dave Eggers, Matt Haig and David Mitchell (the latter of whom said: ‘if you’ve lost your way with fiction…let The Book of Form and Emptiness light your way home’), it is hotly tipped to be one of 2021’s biggest books.
For more information and registration, please visit: Cheltenham Literature Festival
Don’t miss Ruth Ozeki, the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of A Tale for the Time Being in her only London event to launch her new novel, The Book of Form and Emptiness. Drawing on the role jazz music plays within the novel, the event opens and closes with improvised performances by saxophonist Alam Nathoo.
For more information and registration, please visit: Southbank Centre
Liverpool Libraries is delighted to host Ruth Ozeki, for this very special event celebrating the publication of her new novel about about loss, community and belonging. This free event will take place at Hornby Library during Libraries Week, where Ruth will speak with journalist and BookTuber Simon Savidge.
For more information and registration, please visit: Hornby Library Eventbrite
Mr B’s Emporium presents a conversation with Ruth Ozeki about her new novel, The Book of Form and Emptiness. Event also includes a Q&A, and a glass of wine!
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Canongate, Viking, Waterstone’s and Literati Bookstore are delighted to join forces to present an unmissable transatlantic event: Man Booker-shortlisted authors Ruth Ozeki and David Mitchell, in conversation about Ozeki’s new novel, The Book of Form and Emptiness.
For more information, please visit: Literati Bookstore (US) | Waterstone’s (UK)
This series will bring four eminent writers whose work explores or is inflected by themes deriving from Buddhism to Smith and the Five Colleges for one to two week visits to share their ideas and practice with our students, faculty and the wider community.
Each visitor will stay for one to two weeks and each will:
Present a public lecture;
Give a public reading from her or his writing;
Offer a faculty session of a Smith College Kahn Liberal Arts Institute short-term project to be distributed over the four visits;
Offer a student seminar, with credit available to students who participate in all four classes with visiting writers and some supplementary sessions and who register for a Buddhist Studies Program special studies course;
Present work at a meeting of the Five College Buddhist Studies Faculty Seminar;
Make class visits.
*Public Reading at Amherst College, Workshops & Seminars at Amherst College
Wednesday, November 7, 7:30 p.m., public reading from her work, Frost Library, CHI Think Tank, Amherst College
Saturday, November 10, 9:30 a.m.–4 p.m., faculty seminar/workshop, Kahn Institute.
Monday, November 12, 5 p.m., public lecture, Seelye 201: "The Contemplative "I": Zen and the Art of Autobiographical Fiction"
Wednesday, November 14, 7–9 p.m., student seminar, Dewey Common
Thursday, November 15, 5:30–7 p.m., Five College Buddhist Studies Faculty Seminar, Philosophy Lounge, Dewey
For more information, please visit Smith College Buddhist Studies page.
