![]() ![]() The Current (TC): What do university students - and all of us - need to know about Juneteenth?Īnnette Gordon-Reed (AGR): They need to know that it was the day that General Gordon Granger, of the United States Army, announced that slavery was over in Texas. ![]() Prior to her arrival at on campus, Gordon-Reed answered three questions about Juneteenth: ![]() In addition, students will be invited to stay after the program for a special Q&A session with Gordon-Reed. Attendance is free for current UCSB students with valid ID. The presentation, part of UCSB Arts & Lectures’ “Justice for All” series, is also available via live stream to regular ticket holders. The event will be moderated by Black studies professor Jeffrey Stewart, also a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner. 10, at 7:30 p.m., Gordon-Reed will discuss Juneteenth - the day in 1865 when the end of legalized slavery in Texas was announced - and its importance to American history. Gordon-Reed’s new bestseller, “On Juneteenth,” weaves together history and heartfelt memoir to tell the sweeping story of Juneteenth and the larger fight for equality.Īppearing at UC Santa Barbara’s Campbell Hall Wednesday, Nov. She received a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award for her 2008 book, “The Hemingses of Monticello,” and has been honored with a National Humanities Medal. Loeb University Professor at Harvard, is a leading voice on race and history in America. Historian Annette Gordon-Reed, the Carl M. ![]()
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What draws a woman to this type of sisterhood? And are their friendships and rivalries so different from our own? Two new novels, Lauren Groff’s Matrix, coming Sept. The sisters were often fun and always kind. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thompson churned out pulp to order, and his work is uneven, but always extraordinary. This was the type of fiction I wanted to write, wrong-footing the reader on every page, drawing you into an appalling story, making you laugh one minute and recoil in horror the next. The book manages to switch between hilarious and horrific in a startling manner. His ability to get inside twisted minds was uncanny. I'd never read anything like the books he turned out in the '50s and '60s. Having ploughed through the likes of Elmore Leonard, George V Higgins and Charles Willeford, I dug further back, which is how I came across Jim Thompson. ![]() The thought of picking apart the turgid, empty, "cleverly written" sentences of "proper" fiction fills me with horror. Once I'd tasted the delights of genre fiction – the instant hit, the smash to the head, the flow, the muscle, the vernacular – literary fiction lost all its appeal for me. ![]() A friend of mine turned me on to crime fiction and since then I've never looked back. ![]() But when I went to university everything changed. I watched obscure, arty, subtitled films rather than the latest Hollywood output. I listened to jazz and classical music instead of pop. I was a snobbish teenager, going out of my way to shun the mainstream. ![]() ![]() ![]() A book that will challenge readers as much as the author has challenged herself. Maggie Nelsons The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of autotheory offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity. The author turns the whole process and concept of motherhood inside out, exploring every possible perspective, blurring the distinctions among the political, philosophical, aesthetic and personal. Her books of nonfiction include On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint (Graywolf Press, 2021), The Argonauts (Graywolf Press, 2015), global best-seller and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award a landmark work of cultural, art, and literary criticism titled The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (Norton, 2011), which. “A fiercely provocative and intellectually audacious memoir. Maggie Nelson is the author of several books in multiple genres. Nelson’s insistence on radical individual freedom and the value of caretaking becomes the rallying cry for this thoughtful, unabashed, uncompromising book. 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