Tue 5/7 @ 7:30PM
Two celebrated Black authors will share the stage at the Maltz Performing Arts Center for the next Writers Center Stage even presented by the Cuyahoga County Public Library.
Imani Perry, an Alabama-born, Cambridge, Massachusetts-raised scholar who teaches at Harvard and has written numerous books, comes from an educated, activist family. Her 2022 book, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation, is based on interviews she did with ordinary people as she travelled through the south, trying to understand the mechanics of its racism and how it extended to the entire country.
Kiese Laymon, who was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi, has written three books: a novel Long Division (2013), and two powerful memoirs, 2013’s How to Kill Yourself and Others in America (2013) and Heavy: An American Memoir (2018), which deal with a whole race of dysfunctions, personal and societal. He’s also an Oberlin graduate, who currently teaches at Houston’s Rice University.
Get tickets to this sure-to-be-enlightening conversation here.
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