"Everyday Something Has Tried to Kill Me and Has Failed": An Author event with Kim McLarin

Join the Watertown Free Public Library for a special event with Mass Book Award-Honoree Kim McLarin! McLarin will read from and discuss her powerful essay collection,&nbsp;<a href="https://watertown.minlib.net/Record/.b42178010?searchId=42339756&amp;recordIndex=1&amp;page=1&amp;referred=resultIndex">Everyday Something Has Tried to Kill Me and Has Failed: Notes from Periracial America</a>. ﻿ With accumulated wisdom and sharp-eyed clarity, award-winning author Kim McLarin addresses the joys and hardships of being an older Black woman in contemporary America. Drawing from deeply personal experiences, these powerful essays illuminate the pain and power of aging, Blackness and feminism, and capture the endless cycle of progress and backlash that continues to shape race and gender. McLarin offers much needed insights into the troubled social landscape of today. This program is sponsored by the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.massbook.org/mba-speakers-bureau">Mass Book Awards Speakers Bureau</a>&nbsp;and is presented in collaboration with the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.massbook.org/">Massachusetts Center for the Book.</a> Kim McLarin is the author of three critically-acclaimed novels, several essay collections and the bibilomemoir&nbsp;<a href="https://watertown.minlib.net/GroupedWork/dc4be0eb-fb14-97af-2e55-969f1b505d65-eng/Home?searchId=42339834&amp;recordIndex=1&amp;page=1&amp;searchSource=local&amp;referred=resultIndex">James Baldwin’s Another Country: Bookmarked</a>. Her last essay collection,&nbsp;<a href="https://watertown.minlib.net/Record/.b38059769?searchId=42339858&amp;recordIndex=3&amp;page=1&amp;referred=resultIndex">Womanish</a>, was called “blisteringly honest, funny and vulnerable” by&nbsp;The New York Times, and was excerpted in&nbsp;The Washington Post. Her work has appeared in the&nbsp;New England Review, the&nbsp;Sewanee Review,&nbsp;The Sun Magazine,&nbsp;The Root,&nbsp;Slate,&nbsp;The Washington Post,&nbsp;The New York Times&nbsp;and many other publications. She is a former staff writer for&nbsp;The Associated Press,&nbsp;The Philadelphia Inquirer&nbsp;and&nbsp;The New York Times. She appears regularly on&nbsp;Basic Black, the longest running program on public television focusing on the interests of people of color, produced at WGBH. McLarin is Professor of Creative Writing at Emerson College.

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Massachusetts Center for the Book

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