Sometimes and Across- Notes on Writing Under Surveillance: A Talk by Valeria Luiselli

Date and Time

October 2, 2023
05:30PM - 05:30PM EDT

Location

Thompson Room, Barker Center

Postponed from September 18th to October 2nd

Join us for a talk about reading and writing inside detention centers, and a meditation on what it means to take back one's own story, reimagine it, and tell it.


Valeria Luiselli  is the author of Sidewalks (2013), Faces in the Crowd (2014), The Story of My Teeth (2015), Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions (2017) and Lost Children Archive (2019). She is the recipient of a 2019 MacArthur Fellowship and the winner of DUBLIN Literary Award, two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, The Carnegie Medal, an American Book Award, and has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Kirkus Prize, and the Booker Prize.