{"id":2442688,"date":"2019-04-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=303731"},"modified":"2019-04-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T06:00:00","slug":"library-to-livestream-aspen-words-literary-prize-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/library-to-livestream-aspen-words-literary-prize-on-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Library to livestream Aspen Words Literary Prize on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cAn American Marriage\u201d by Tayari Jones<\/strong>
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The Pitkin County Library will host a free livestream viewing party for the Aspen Words Literary Prize awards ceremony Thursday.<\/p>\n

The ceremony is being held at the Morgan Library in New York City. The local event, held in the library\u2019s Dunaway Community Room, will begin at 4:15 p.m. with the livestream beginning at 4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

Finalists for the $35,000 prize, which honors a work of fiction that illuminates vital contemporary issues are: \u201cFriday Black\u201d by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, \u201cBrother\u201d by David Chariandy, \u201cGun Love\u201d by Jennifer Clement, \u201cAn American Marriage\u201d by Tayari Jones and \u201cThere There\u201d by Tommy Orange.<\/p>\n

The event will include a conversation with the five finalist authors led by NPR special host and correspondent Renee Montagne and the live announcement of the prize winner.<\/p>\n

At the local library party, refreshments will be served and prizes will be awarded for those who correctly guess the winning book. Attendees also will have the opportunity to be the first to sign up to receive a free copy of the winning title, which will be featured in a community read this summer.<\/p>\n

In early May, the library is expected to host a community read kickoff party. And on June 18, during Summer Words literary festival, the 2019 prize winner is expected to give a talk at Belly Up Aspen.<\/p>\n

That event will be followed by an early-July panel discussion about the winner for valleywide book clubs at the library.<\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cAn American Marriage\u201d by Tayari JonesCourtesy photo The Pitkin County Library will host a free livestream viewing party for the Aspen Words Literary Prize awards ceremony Thursday. The ceremony is being held at the Morgan Library in New York City. The local event, held in the library\u2019s Dunaway Community Room, will begin at 4:15 p.m. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2442688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 11:40:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}