Garth Greenwell will read from and discuss his second book of fiction, Cleanness, which is a January Indie Next Selection and has been named a most anticipated book of 2020 by The New York Times, Esquire, The Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly, and Oprah Magazine, among others. His first novel, What Belongs to You, was longlisted for the National Book Award and was a finalist for six other awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Award and the LA Times Book Prize. A New York Times Book Review...

Writers’ Workshop graduate Kiley Reid will read from and talk about her new novel, Such a Fun Age. This debut novel dives head first into matters of race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both. Generating extraordinary pre-publication excitement, film and TV rights have already been acquired, and the book has received praise from writers such as Chloe Benjamin and Paul Harding. 

Such a Fun...

Distinguished Visiting Professor in Poetry, Tracie Morris will give a lecture on the intersection of scholarship and creative work, in the Frank Conroy Reading Room at 8pm on Tuesday, December 10.

Tracie Morris is the author of Chap-T-her Won, Intermission, Rhyme Scheme, handholding: 5 kinds, Hard Kore: Poemes/Per-form: Poems of Mythos and Place (French/English), Who Do with Words, and co-editor (with Charles Bernstein and series editors) of BAX 2016: Best American Experimental Writing. Her art...

A self-proclaimed “lingualisualist” rooted in the languages of sight and sound, Edwin Torres was born in the Bronx and is a longtime resident of New York City. He is a poet whose highly acclaimed performances and live shows combine vocal and physical improvisation and theater. He is the author of 12 collections of poetry, most recently Ameriscopia (2014) and his visual poetics have been exhibited at Exit Art, EFA Gallery in NYC, and a graphic retrospective “Poesís: The Visual Language of Edwin...