WITH literary collaborators DANNY LORE AND SHEREE RENÉE THOMAS
MODERATED BY KYLE DARGAN
LAUNCH OF THE MEMORY LIBRARIAN: AND OTHER STORIES OF DIRTY COMPUTER
CO-PRESENTED BY BAM, GREENLIGHT BOOKSTORE, AND THE LIT. BAR
Groundbreaking musician, actor, fashion icon, and futurist Janelle Monáe is joined by literary collaborators Danny Lore and Sheree Renée Thomas for a conversation moderated by Kyle Dargan to celebrate the launch of The Memory Librarian at BAM. A sexy, soulful, and dissident collection of short fiction, The Memory Librarian brings to the written page the rebellious and Afrofuturistic world of Monáe’s critically acclaimed album Dirty Computer. The stories in The Memory Librarian explore the lives of those living in an increasingly surveillance-hungry, totalitarian order—striving to see and hold onto their “dirtiness” without being tracked down and cleaned. Filled with the artistic innovation and brave themes that have made Janelle Monáe a global influence, this anthology sees our battles about gender identity, political violence, and sexuality as matters of space, time, love, and the power of memory.
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Jerome L. Greene Foundation
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