Bethany C. Morrow is a recovering expat recently returning from six years in Montreal, Quebec, to live and write in north-country New York — yet another foreign place. A California native, Bethany graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a BA in Sociology (but took notable detours in the Film and Theatre departments). Following undergrad, she studied Clinical Psychological Research at the University of Wales, Bangor, in Great Britain before returning to North America to focus on her literary work.
2018 Featured Author: Ece Temelkuran
Ece Temelkuran, one of Turkey’s best-known novelists and political commentators, was a prominent investigative journalist before her controversial explorations of Kurdish and Armenian issues led to her dismissal. She was a visiting fellow at Oxford and delivered the Freedom Lecture as a guest of Amnesty International and the Prince Claus Foundation. Read More …
2018 Featured Event: The AfroFuturism Book Club Launch
AfroFuturism is a genre and a movement. It is science fiction and it is reality. It is past and it is future.
It is our time.
The AfroFuturism Book Club at the Last Bookstore launches on May 8.
Giveaway: Not My White Savior by Julayne Lee
Our next giveaway is a signed copy of Not My White Savior by Julayne Lee, which we picked up at her successful launch party at CIELO galleries.
The book of poetry goes to one lucky winner from our “Giveaways and Special Offers” list. Sign up here: https://www.bookswell.club/subscribe/
2018 Featured Author: Julayne Lee
Julayne Lee was given up for adoption in South Korea as a result of the Korean War. She was adopted by an all-white Christian family in Minnesota, where she grew up. She has spent over fifteen years working with overseas adopted Koreans (OAKs). She lived in Seoul and now resides in Los Angeles, where she is a member of the LA Futbolistas and Adoptee Solidarity Korea – Los Angeles (ASK-LA). She is also part of the Adoptee Rights Campaign working to pass the Adoptee Citizenship Act to ensure all inter-country adoptees have US citizenship. Read More …