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WLP Publishing Series Presents: Cuba and the Embattled Book
The Emerson College WLP Department presents "Cuba and the Embattled Book: Examining censorship, the U.S. embargo, and the future for writers and publishers." Panelists: DR. SARA E. COOPER, editor, Cubanabooks Press; professor, Spanish and Multicultural & Gender Studies, California State University, Chico. KEN FUND, president and CEO, Quarto Publishing Group USA; member, February 2016 U.S. publishing mission to Cuba. DARIEL SUAREZ, author; head of faculty and curriculum, GrubStreet Moderated by ALDEN JONES, author; WLP senior af liated faculty member; co-founder,…
Find out more »Emerson Faculty/Alumni Reading Series: RICHARD HOFFMAN & LEAH CARROLL
Emerson college is pleased to welcome faculty RICHARD HOFFMAN in conversation with LEAH CARROLL (pictured) about her memoir, Down City. This event will take place in The New Beard Room, 150 Boylston St., Boston, MA. RICHARD HOFFMAN is the author of seven books, including the celebrated Half the House: a Memoir, published in a 20th Anniversary Edition in 2015, and the 2014 memoir Love & Fury. In addition to the volume, Interference and Other Stories, he has published four collections…
Find out more »Back to the Afrofuture: A Conversation with Ytasha Womack at Emerson College
Presented by Emerson College WLP Reading Series. Co-sponsored by Emerson's School of the Arts, Graduate Studies, Admissions and the Career Development Center. This event is a Webinar on Wed, Nov 7, 7-8pm EST with a Live Audience located in Ansin 604. The Webinar is free and open to the public. The Live Audience portion is limited to current Emerson students, faculty and staff. Please RSVP by November 6 at EventBrite (Webinar instructions located on EventBrite): http://womack.eventbrite.com Ytasha L. Womack is an award-winning…
Find out more »Evie Shockley Reading and Q&A
Evie Shockley is the author of semiautomatic (2017), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the LA Times Book Prize. She has published four other collections of poetry—including the new black (2011), which won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award—and a critical study, Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry (2011). Her honors include the 2015 Stephen Henderson Award for Outstanding Achievement in Poetry and the 2012 Holmes National Poetry Prize. She is currently a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard…
Find out more »Emerson College Reading Series: Kim McLarin and Edwin Hill
Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director for Popular Fiction and Publishing Kim McLarin is the author of three critically-acclaimed novels, including the memoir Divorce Dog: Men, Motherhood and Midlife and Divorce Dog: A Play, based on the book and of numerous essays and short stories. Her most recent book is Womanish: A Grown Black Woman Speaks of Life and Love. Edwin Hill MFA '02 is the author of two novels, Little Comfort and The Missing Ones, and is the vice president and editorial director for Bedford/St. Martin's, a division…
Find out more »Kiese Laymon Reading and Q&A
Kiese Laymon is a black southern writer, born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. Laymon attended Millsaps College and Jackson State University before graduating from Oberlin College. He earned an MFA in Fiction from Indiana University. Laymon is currently the Ottilie Schillig Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi. He served as the Distinguished Visiting Professor of Nonfiction at the University of Iowa in Fall 2017. Laymon is the author of the novel Long Division and a collection of essays, How…
Find out more »Ytasha L. Womack Reads
Ytasha L. Womack is an award-winning producer, director, author, and innovator. She is author of the critically acclaimed books Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci Fi & Fantasy Culture, Rayla 2212, Post Black: How a New Generation is Redefining African American Identity; and co-edited Beats Rhymes and Life: What We Love and Hate About Hip Hop. Afrofuturism is a 2014 Locus Awards Nonfiction Finalist, and Post Black was hailed as a Booklist Top 10 Black History Reader of 2010. Her films include Love Shortsand The Engagement. The Engagement was…
Find out more »Did You Know?
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.