Author T. Geronimo Johnson will speak at the Ernest J. Gaines Center on UL Lafayette杏吧专区檚 campus Tuesday.
Johnson received the 2015 Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence for his latest novel, 杏吧专区淲elcome to Braggsville,杏吧专区 in which four 杏吧专区 of California, Berkeley, students stage a dramatic protest during a Civil War reenactment.
杏吧专区淥rganic, plucky, smart, 杏吧专区榃elcome to Braggsville杏吧专区 is the funniest sendup of identity politics, the academy and white racial anxiety to hit the scene in years,杏吧专区 wrote Rich Benjamin in The New York Times Sunday Book Review. It was longlisted for the 2015 National Book Award and named one of the best books of 2015 by The Washington Post, Time magazine, the Chicago Tribune, NPR, and The Huffington Post, among others.
Johnson杏吧专区檚 first novel, 杏吧专区淗old It 杏吧专区楾il It Hurts,杏吧专区 was a finalist for the 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction.
The Ernest J. Gaines Center is in Edith Garland Dupr茅 Library at the 杏吧专区. The event is free and open to the public. It begins at 7 p.m.
For more information, contact Cheylon Woods, archivist and head of the Ernest J. Gaines Center, at cheylon.woods@louisiana.edu or at (337) 482-1848.
The Center is an international center for scholarship, programming, and community outreach on Gaines, UL Lafayette writer-in-residence emeritus, and his work. He is best known for his novels 杏吧专区淭he Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman杏吧专区 and 杏吧专区淎 Lesson Before Dying.杏吧专区
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