Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina joins at the Aspen Writers' Foundation Summer Words Festival in 2007. Wainaina joins author Ishmael Beah on the stage of the Wheeler Opera House Feb. 22, as part of the Winter Words series.
Town Center Booksellers copresents the very popular Winter Words Series.
In it's 11th year, the Aspen Writers' Foundation's Winter Words series (copresented by Town Center Booksellers) has been providing visitors and locals with a wide array of literary presentations from some of the most acclaimed authors of our time. The 2008 series started strong with lectures from PEN/Faulker Award winning writer Ann Patchett and New York Times bestselling author Sebastian Junger.
Feb. 22 boasted an incredible night of storytelling with A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Solider author, Ismael Beah, and Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina at the Wheeler Opera House. The evening included book signings and was followed by a benefit concert with DMC hosted by Action in Africa (AIA). AIA is an Aspen High School student fund-raising initiative, which benefits the Ssejinja Foundation, which provides former child soldiers and AIDS orphans of Uganda an education in a safe environment.
Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of Bridge of Sighs and Empire Falls Richard Russo followed the pace with his March 6 Winter Words presentation. But the literary reverie doesn't stop there as the Winter Words lineup includes presentations from nonfiction author Amy Bloom and Guggenheim Fellowship poet Edward Hirsch.
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Lara Whitley from the Aspen Writers' Foundation stops by the Morning Noon and Night Show to talk about Ishmael Beah and Binyavanga Wainaina's appearance at 11th annual Winter Words series at the Wheeler Opera House Feb. 22.
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