Book Banter with Rayna Nielsen Featuring Anita Felicelli

In this live stream of Book Banter we talk with author Anita Felicelli about her newest book How We Know Our Time Travelers.

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Event Details:

📅 Date: December 11th, 2024

🕒 Time: 6:00pm central

This event is free to the public. No registration required—simply join the live stream on YouTube at the scheduled time by clicking this link: https://www.youtube.com/live/w5W2-iHpn4I?si=gNH9NpPpXkv7ic8T

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Anita Felicelli is the author of How We Know Our Time Travelers, Chimerica, and the award-winning short story collection Love Songs for a Lost Continent. Anita edits Alta Journal‘s California Book Club. Her short stories have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Air/Light, The Normal School, and elsewhere. She has contributed essays and criticism to the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Times (Modern Love), among other places. In 2023, one of her short stories was performed as part of Symphony Space’s Selected Shorts. Anita grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she lives with her family. She served on the Board of the National Book Critics Circle from 2021-2024.

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How We Know Our Time Travelers: Stories, is a dark, intellectual, and surreal collection inspired by the uncertainty of time that explores themes of technology, climate change, reality, love and loss. Atmospheric, speculative stories examine our post-pandemic reality and future. Anita Felicelli introduces readers to a bickering couple who use an app to track their fights in “Keeping Score,” a woman who learns that an unseen lodger is in her home in “A Minor Disturbance,” a group of creepy friends who sell jars of fog in “The Fog Catchers,” and a woman who encounters a younger version of her own husband at her art exhibition in the title story. Time travel, as the book envisions it, happens all the time, if not in the way we’re used to considering it. Unsettling, uncanny, cerebral and genre-bending, the book reminds us of the fragility and unreliability of memory, and its invisible impact on the larger moments of our lives.

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Book Banter is a laid-back conversational interview with authors, illustrators, creators and other bookish folks.