Acclaimed authors share work at SKC
The National Book Foundation brings National Book Award-honored authors Tess Gunty and Tommy Orange to Salish Kootenai College in Pablo May 2.
NBF Presents: How to Map a Novel will be presented at 5 p.m. at the Johnny Arlee/Victor Charlo Performing Arts Theater, in partnership with Salish Kootenai College, and moderated by Debra Magpie Earling, author and professor emeritus at the University of Montana.
In their debut novels, Gunty (The Rabbit Hutch, 2022 Fiction Winner) explores the interconnected lives of housing complex residents and Tommy Orange (There There, 2018 Fiction Longlist) follows 12 Native people traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow. The authors will read from their debut novels, and discuss the significance of place and point-of-view in fiction, and why reading matters.
Moderator Debra Magpie Earling is the author of Perma Red and The Lost Journals of Sacajewea. She’s a member of the Bitterroot Salish, and has received both a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
An audience question-and-answer session and book signing will follow.
The event is part of NBF Presents, the Foundation’s public programming, which brings honored authors around the country to reach readers everywhere. The event is free and open to the public, but attendees are encouraged to RSVP on the National Book Foundation website, www.nationalbook.org.
The Foundation’s event with Salish Kootenai College and a presentation May 3 in Livingston mark just two of 15 events in its spring NBF Presents line-up, featuring 22 authors in 12 states from February through May.
