Name: Fall for the Book's Mini Fest
Start: 2026-02-19T10:30:00-05:00
End: 2026-02-19T17:30:00-05:00
Location: Fenwick Library

Fall for the Book's Spring calendar includes their Mini Fest featuring several author talks over the course of the day at GMU's Fenwick Library. All events will take place in the Fenwick Reading Room located on the second floor of the library. All events are free to attend, and books will be on sale during each event where a book signing will follow.
10:30AM: Boys, Interrupted
A coming-of-age tale of male friendship and loneliness, the novel Great Disasters by Grady Chambers follows six young men from their Chicago high school years in the early 2000s through war, love, and heartbreak. Slipping between memories and adulthood, Chambers explores humor, hope, addiction, loss and more in this portrait of friends moving forward together and apart.
12:00PM: The Monsters Beneath
Michael Regina’s graphic novel Deepwater Creek captures the horrors lurking in the depths of a local creek. When four friends gather for a final fishing trip before all going off to different schools, they snag something too terrifying to believe.
1:30PM: COVID & Chinese and Chinese American Women
During the pandemic, Chinese and Chinese American women faced a double threat of illness and vitriolic racism. In its aftermath, folklorist Ziying You addresses this experience by examining gender, religion, community building, and more, alongside connections with historical and enduring racism.
4:30PM: The Wonder of Curiosity
Artist and author A. Kendra Greene guides readers to explore the wonder in the mundane and engage with the unique and fascinating parts of this world in No Less Strange or Wonderful: Essays in Curiosity. In twenty-six illustrated essays, Greene embraces joy and the sublime in fantastical, yet real tales of exploding sharks, sentient bags of wasps, trees riding bicycles, and more.