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Arlington Reads

Arlington Reads

Our signature series brings authors and readers together to talk about the important topics of our time.

Arlington Reads: Get Graphic

March 7, 2023

In its 2023 series, Arlington Reads turns the page to the next thematic chapter: “Get Graphic.” The yearlong series features a diverse lineup of four award-winning and New York Times-bestselling graphic novel authors: Alison Bechdel (Mar. 9), Jerry Craft (Apr. 27), Gene Luen Yang (May 4) and Art Spiegelman (Sep. 21). Each of these authors will focus on a character’s experiences intersected with social commentary, history, identity and self-discovery using the graphic novel format to challenge our societal norms and invite us to discover uncomfortable truths and new ways of seeing.

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Purple-range graphic collage of five authors with the title "Get Graphic and Arlington Reads."

Events

Barbara Kingsolver, 2022

Alison Bechdel, 2023

Jacqueline Woodson, 2019

Gene Luen Yang, 2023

Nikole Hannah-Jones, 2022

Nikole Hannah-Jones, 2022

Nikole Hannah-Jones, 2022

Katherine Boo, 2018

Gene Luen Yang, 2023

George Saunders, 2022

Viet Thanh Nguyen, 2017

Richard Rothstein, 2018

Roxane Gay, 2020

Marlon James, 2022

Colum McCann, 2016

Marlon James, 2022

Zadie Smith, 2018

Jerry Craft, 2023

Tommy Orange, 2019

Susan Orlean, 2019

Arlington Reads promotes literacy, the joy of reading and intergenerational participation. Since its inception in 2006, Arlington Reads has featured both national and international fiction and nonfiction authors and cultural icons, such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Wendell Berry, Katherine Boo, Matthew Desmond, Anthony Doerr, Richard Ford, Roxane Gay, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Colum McCann, Tim O’Brien, Ann Patchett, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Zadie Smith, Elizabeth Strout, Colson Whitehead and many more.

Arlington Reads is made possible in part through the generous support of the Friends of the Arlington Public Library.

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Tim O'Brien, 2011
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2015
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David Brooks, 2020

Arlington Reads Archive

2023

Alison Bechdel
Jerry Craft
Gene Luen Yang
Imani Perry
Art Spiegelman
Matthew Desmond

2022

Reginald Dwayne Betts
Deb Olin Unferth
Deesha Philyaw
Parul Sehgal
Kiese Laymon
S.A. Cosby
Nikole Hannah-Jones
Marlon James
George Saunders
Andrea Elliott

 

2021

Masha Gessen
Jenny Offill
Rebecca Traister
Laila Lailami
Valeria Luiselli
Joan E. Biren
Catherine Coleman Flowers
Bina Venkataraman
Nathaniel Rich
Imbolo Mbue

2020

Roxane Gay
Brooke Gladstone
Rachel Snyder
Elaine Weiss
David Brooks
Colson Whitehead
Alexis Coe

2019

Michael W. Twitty
Wilma Jones
Jacqueline Woodson
Mary Karr
Susan Orlean
Tracy K. Smith
Matt McCarthy

2018

Richard Rothstein
Matthew Desmond
Katherine Boo
Beth Macy
Zadie Smith

2017

Elizabeth Strout
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Lawrence Block

2016

Anthony Doerr
Julie Otsuka
Richard Reeves
Colum McCann

2015

Jesmyn Ward
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

2014

Ann Beattie
Richard Ford
Ann Patchett

2013

Dinaw Mengestu
Junot Díaz

2012

Jennifer Egan

2011

David Finkel
Tim O'Brien

2010

Wendell Berry
Novella Carpenter

2009

Jeffrey Toobin

2008

Edwidge Danticat

2007

Eilzabeth Kolbert

2006

Anne Tyler
Marjane Satrapi
Linda Sue Park

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