{"id":26901,"date":"2018-11-23T17:30:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T17:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=26901"},"modified":"2018-11-23T17:30:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T17:30:17","slug":"penguin-is-launching-a-pop-up-shop-in-occasion-of-michelle-obamas-becoming-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/penguin-is-launching-a-pop-up-shop-in-occasion-of-michelle-obamas-becoming-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguin is launching a pop-up shop in occasion of Michelle Obama\u2019s Becoming release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today, November 23<sup>rd<\/sup>, publisher Penguin Bookshop is opening a pop-up shop in collaboration with gal-dem and Waterstones in occasion of the launch of Michelle Obama\u2019s autobiography, <em>Becoming<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The shop, located on 2 Bury Place, is a temporary venue and will close down a week from now, on November 30<sup>th<\/sup>. In the next seven days, a number of talks, parties, workshops and events will be hosted. The focus is, as well as on the former first lady\u2019s book, will be on women and non-binary Afro American writers, activists and journalists.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors will also get the one-off chance to see an exhibition showcasing unseen photographs portraying Michelle both as a young girl with her family and as the successful woman we\u2019re accustomed to.<\/p>\n<p>On November 3<sup>rd<\/sup>, Obama will be in conversation with novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie at Southbank Centre. Event prices range from \u00a330 to \u00a3125. Put up for sale on November 8<sup>th<\/sup>, at 10:30 am tickets were already sold out.<\/p>\n<p>The book seems to be a success already: released on November 13<sup>th<\/sup>, it sold more than 35,000 copies in less than a week. It has claimed to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/pop-culture\/2018\/11\/michelle-obama-becoming-fastest-selling-book-2018\">the fastest selling book of the year<\/a>. According to Forbes, <em>Becoming <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/adamrowe1\/2018\/11\/19\/michelle-obamas-becoming-is-a-massive-hit-with-725000-copies-sold-in-just-one-day\/?utm_source=TWITTER&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_content=1912172197&amp;utm_campaign=sprinklrForbesShowbizTwitter#617a7c5e6b85\">sold 725,000<\/a> copies on its release date alone.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for Voice of London\u2019s review of Michelle Obama\u2019s <em>Becoming<\/em>&#8211; coming out next week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Words: Matilde Moro | Subbing: Jake Woods<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/michelle-obama-on-trump-id-never-forgive-him\/\">Michelle Obama on Trump: &#8220;I&#8217;d never forgive him&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, November 23rd, publisher Penguin Bookshop is opening a pop-up shop in collaboration with gal-dem and Waterstones in occasion of the launch of Michelle Obama\u2019s autobiography, Becoming. The shop, located on 2 Bury Place, is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":26904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,33,42,52],"tags":[757,919,928,4153,4795,4943,6820],"class_list":["post-26901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-culture","category-entertainment","category-featured","tag-becoming","tag-book","tag-bookshop","tag-michelle-obama","tag-penguin","tag-pop-up","tag-waterstones"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}