Event | Lectures and Symposia What If?: Time Travel, Supervillains and Other Everyday Things with Jamar Nicholas and Nisi Shawl
Date and Location
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When: Saturday, August 12, 2023
01:05 pm - 01:35 pm EDT
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Where: Walter E. Washington Convention Center - Room 204 (Level 2, South Building)
801 Allen Y. Lew Place NW, Washington, DC 20001
- Stage: Discovery Stage
- Event Type(s): Author Presentations, For All Ages, Panels
- Genre(s): Adventure, Black and African American, Book Series, Family, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novel, LGBTQ+, Middle Grade, Science Fiction
Part of National Book Festival; 2023 National Book Festival
Request ADA accommodations five business days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov.
What happens when magic becomes your everyday? Set in a world where superheroes and ordinary people coexist, Jamar Nicholas’ graphic novel “Leon the Extraordinary” follows superpower-less Leon’s mission to save his fifth grade class from an app that turns them into zombies. In Nisi Shawl’s “Speculation,” 10-year-old Winna embarks on a quest to break a family curse using wish-granting spectacles. Moderated by Megan Halsband.