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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Mud on the Moon by Nita Noveno in conversation with Wah-Ming Chang
DESCRIPTION:Mud on the Moon is a hybrid memoir that intertwines a daughter’s exploration of her Filipino immigrant father’s obscured past with a reimagined version of his untold story. \nBorn in Southeast Alaska\, Nita Noveno traces the legacy of her father\, who arrived in the US in 1928 as part of a wave of Filipino men seeking better opportunities through manual labor in agriculture and other industries. The book alternates between Nita’s coming-of-age story and imagined chapters of her father’s life\, revealing the gaps and silences that lie between their experiences. With a blend of personal and historical imagery\, Mud on the Moon offers a rare glimpse into the lives of Filipino immigrants in America. It is a meditation on how family\, memory\, and identity are shaped by the stories we inherit\, both spoken and unspoken\, across generations.
URL:https://dumbo.nyc/event/book-launch-mud-on-the-moon-by-nita-noveno-in-conversation-with-wah-ming-chang/
LOCATION:The Powerhouse Arena\, 28 Adams Street (Corner of Adams & Water Street across from the Archway)\, Brooklyn\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Always Have Enough by Maria Melchor in conversation with Sherri Lu
DESCRIPTION:Master your finances in six weeks with a money system designed to reflect your values and ambitions—no matter what your starting point. \nIf you didn’t grow up with money or advice on how to manage it\, this guide will walk you through key steps to building generational wealth with clarity and confidence. You can master your money in just six weeks\, and set in motion a financial life that reflects the personal\, family\, and cultural values that shape how you define success. Drawing on her own experiences and years of guiding thousands of members of her FirstGenLiving community\, personal finance expert Maria Melchor shares her Always Have Enough (AHEM) System\, teaching you how to build a simple and powerful approach to money and create a future that supports both you and the people you love. \nWith the step-by-step advice in Always Have Enough\, you will learn how to: \nBreak free from scarcity mindset to save and spend more wisely\nStrike a healthy balance between honoring your roots and pursuing your ambitions\nMake your debt disappear (hint: anything’s faster than ignoring it)\nChoose the right bank accounts\, credit cards\, and investments for your goals\nEnjoy the present while building for the future\nYou’ll find real-life stories\, “homework” to help you put each lesson into practice\, and new ways to manage\, save\, and spend money that reflect both your ambitions and your values. Most importantly\, you’ll discover that with the right mindset\, plans\, and tools\, you can build real financial security\, support the people you love and create a life where you truly always have enough.
URL:https://dumbo.nyc/event/book-launch-always-have-enough-by-maria-melchor-in-conversation-with-sherri-lu/
LOCATION:The Powerhouse Arena\, 28 Adams Street (Corner of Adams & Water Street across from the Archway)\, Brooklyn\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: The Ballad of the Fugitive William Parker by Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz in conversation with Amber Tamblyn
DESCRIPTION:For fans of Master Slave Husband Wife and Django Unchained comes the extraordinary forgotten story of an event known in its day as “the first shots of the Civil War\,” from the New York Times bestselling author of Dr. Mütter’s Marvels. \nThe year\, 1851. The place\, a Quaker farming community turned Underground Railroad stronghold\, where a Maryland enslaver had journeyed in pursuit of four men who’d fled his plantation years before. In a few hours\, he’d be dead…and twenty-seven men from the village of Christiana would be rounded up and put on trial. Not for his murder\, but for treason—for waging war against the United States\, at a time when it was a crime against the government to obstruct an enslaver looking to reclaim his “property.” \nThis is story of what happened in Christiana that September morning—and in the ensuing “trial of the century\,” which saw the president himself advise the prosecution on strategy and a sitting congressman serve as lead attorney for the defense. But The Ballad of the Fugitive William Parker is also a much larger tale\, one spanning decades\, following a whole startlingly diverse community of abolitionists in their fight to convince their fellow Americans of the subversive idea that now found itself on trial: that the nation ought to live up the ideals it was founded on\, and respect all men as equals. \nIt’s a story that whisks readers from the quiet farmlands of Lancaster County—where a self-emancipated man named William Parker\, whom legend had it bullets could not kill\, rallied his neighbors to ride out each night to battle the slavecatchers who stalked their countryside—to Philadelphia’s genteel Society Hill\, where socialite Harriet Forten Purvis had the ear of the mayor (and a cellar filled with fugitives). It’s stylish\, propulsive\, intimately human tale of bravery\, ingenuity\, and hope—and of ordinary people with little in common who came together to stand against injustice…and won.
URL:https://dumbo.nyc/event/book-launch-the-ballad-of-the-fugitive-william-parker-by-cristin-okeefe-aptowicz-in-conversation-with-amber-tamblyn/
LOCATION:The Powerhouse Arena\, 28 Adams Street (Corner of Adams & Water Street across from the Archway)\, Brooklyn\, 11201\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Garden Variety by Timothy Pakron in conversation with Halle Burns
DESCRIPTION:A new cookbook focused on garden-fresh recipes from the beloved home cook\, photographer\, and creator of Mississippi Vegan \nGrowing up\, while Timothy Pakron watched his father tend to his garden\, he knew that someday he would want to put down the same kind of roots in a backyard of his own. When he moved to New Orleans after writing his first cookbook\, Mississippi Vegan\, he made his dream a reality and began growing a cornucopia of plants and produce in the plot of land behind his new home. From fragrant and zesty herbs to all manner of leafy greens\, sturdy root vegetables\, lush fruit\, and more\, Timothy now cooks with fresh ingredients from his flourishing garden regularly\, letting them inspire his recipes while also guiding him through the seasons in the kitchen. In Garden Variety\, he encourages readers to develop a deeper connection with the natural world and shows us how to bring its delicious flavors to our plates. \nTimothy’s approach to plant-based cooking is elegant\, exciting\, and approachable\, with a Southern flair. With vibrant vegetable dishes like his Bay Leaf Roasted Corn with miso chive butter and Crispy Okra & Turmeric Rice with fried curry leaves and peanuts\, to more hearty dishes like his Garden Gumbo with roasted mushrooms and Oven-Braised Cabbage with black-eyed pea hummus\, Garden Variety is full of ingenious recipes that will transform your cooking. With practical tips for roasting and sautéing any vegetable\, baking your own rice to keep on hand\, making perfectly seasoned beans every time\, and leveling up any dish with essential\, homemade condiments\, Garden Variety makes it simple to cook plant-based from scratch\, in addition to being an invaluable resource for how to use seasonal produce. Beautifully photographed by Timothy himself\, it is both a work of art and a celebration of the magic of cooking with ingredients from the earth.
URL:https://dumbo.nyc/event/book-launch-garden-variety-by-timothy-pakron-in-conversation-with-halle-burns/
LOCATION:The Powerhouse Arena\, 28 Adams Street (Corner of Adams & Water Street across from the Archway)\, Brooklyn\, 11201\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Obsolete by Garrison Lovely
DESCRIPTION:About the Book. \nIs AI a bubble or humanity’s last invention? An existing harm or an existential threat? Obsolete cuts through the hype and false binaries to answer all the AI questions you have\, while raising some you probably aren’t prepared for. \nThe richest companies in history are racing to build a machine that replaces human labor—all of it. And\, as this provocative new book insists\, the only surefire way they won’t succeed is if we stop them. \nMany today don’t get further than seeing AI as a boondoggle—a new shiny object for techno-capitalists to sink their cash into as we barrel toward climate disaster. Obsolete takes those concerns seriously\, but implores us to keep our eye on the ball: the attempt to render you obsolete. \nThe scale of their project has no real precedent. What we think of as big—the Gilded Age monopolies\, the Manhattan Project\, the Apollo program—doesn’t even come close to capturing its size. Almost none of us wants this vast transformation to succeed. Yet we’re letting it proceed virtually unabated. Why? Because we don’t know it’s happening\, we don’t believe it will work\, or we don’t think we can stop it. Obsolete takes on all three. \nAI expert and journalist Garrison Lovely’s debut is a refreshing reset on an AI debate in which basically everyone is getting some big things wrong. With deep access to top researchers\, advocates\, and industry insiders\, Obsolete offers a new way to think about the technology and a plan for deciding its future democratically.
URL:https://dumbo.nyc/event/book-launch-obsolete-by-garrison-lovely/
LOCATION:The Powerhouse Arena\, 28 Adams Street (Corner of Adams & Water Street across from the Archway)\, Brooklyn\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Tending the Vines by Ashia S. Ajani
DESCRIPTION:This standout creative nonfiction debut explores the lives and histories of plants considered nonnative or invasive as metaphors for the Black experience in America. \nIn Tending the Vines\, Ashia S. Ajani illuminates how eight unique plants tell the story of the Black diaspora in America. Each chapter is a deep dive into one plant—including eucalyptus\, passionflower\, wild mustard\, and kudzu—exploring their significance in African tradition\, their role through the Middle Passage and Chattel Slavery\, and their enduring importance in modern households and communities. \nTending the Vines unpacks the complex rhetorical lives of these plants\, most of which have been used as both ugly metaphors for Black incursion as well as powerful symbols for Black liberation. It also highlights the ethnobotanical uses that have sustained displaced populations for centuries. Throughout\, Ajani complicates our notions of “invasive” and belonging\, by contextualizing how plants move\, are moved\, and\, of course\, move us.
URL:https://dumbo.nyc/event/book-launch-tending-the-vines-by-ashia-s-ajani/
LOCATION:The Powerhouse Arena\, 28 Adams Street (Corner of Adams & Water Street across from the Archway)\, Brooklyn\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Dear Dealer by Nadia Bowers
DESCRIPTION:For readers of Beautiful Boy and The Night of the Gun\, this gripping memoir explores addiction\, grief\, and family trauma as one woman goes in search of her sister’s killer. \nIn the summer of 2015\, Nadia Bowers’s beloved older sister\, Sasha—a social worker and Ivy League graduate—was found in her car in a restaurant parking lot in their hometown outside New Haven\, Connecticut\, dead from a fentanyl overdose. Plunged into grief\, equipped with Sasha’s phone\, and just weeks from giving birth to her first child\, Nadia began to investigate her sister’s shadow life: who sold Sasha the drugs that killed her? Did they know each other well? Did the dealer have any idea who Sasha was\, outside of addiction? \nExpanding on her viral 2018 This American Life essay of the same name—a letter to this imagined dealer—Bowers’s memoir is a love letter\, a diary\, and a quest in search of the dealer’s identity\, as well as her own. Who is she without her sister? Who is she because of her sister? And what now? Bowers reflects on her shifting roles as sister and mother\, examining how loss has reshaped her sense of self. Her letters to the faceless dealer are interwoven with rage\, reflection\, and even moments of humor as she recounts their intertwined lives alongside memories of charismatic and complex Sasha. \nRooted in unflinching honesty and poetic prose\, Dear Dealer is a richly compelling account of one woman’s search for meaning\, forgiveness\, and hope in the aftermath of tragedy.
URL:https://dumbo.nyc/event/book-launch-dear-dealer-by-nadia-bowers/
LOCATION:The Powerhouse Arena\, 28 Adams Street (Corner of Adams & Water Street across from the Archway)\, Brooklyn\, 11201\, United States
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