{"title": "Book Talk | Carryout by Hasan Dudar", "start": "2026-10-29T18:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Yu & Me Books", "address": "Mulberry Street 44, 10013 New York", "price": "$21.72 USD", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://ko-fi.com/yuandmebooks", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/short-story"], "description": "Yu & Me Books hosts a book talk for Carryout, a linked short story collection by Hasan Dudar, published by the University of Iowa Press. The book follows Walid Idilbi, the youngest child of a Palestinian refugee from Lebanon and a Lebanese refugee who open a corner store in Toledo, Ohio in the late 1970s, as he grows up among Toledo's Arab community and becomes a writer. Hasan Dudar, originally from Toledo and now living in Washington, DC, works in broadcast media and won the 2025 Pinch Literary Award in Fiction. 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The book explores female friendship, the limits of empathy, and what motherhood demands of us.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/book-launch-squatters-by-saba-brelvi-57602/", "official_url": "https://yuandmebooks.com/products/book-launch-squatters-by-saba-brelvi", "image": "https://noky.io/images/07a63c3d70a153d076719835ec161bc0c4b2c03aa9587903cc527e4886661001-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Akbar Shahid Ahmed and Rozina Ali discuss Crossing the Red Line & Seasons of Fury", "start": "2026-11-06T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Books Are Magic", "address": "Smith Street 225, 11231 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics"], "description": "An evening of conversation at the bookstore Books Are Magic on Smith Street in Brooklyn. Journalists Akbar Shahid Ahmed and Rozina Ali discuss the books Crossing the Red Line and Seasons of Fury. 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