Author T. Geronimo Johnson will speak at the Ernest J. Gaines Center on UL Lafayette小蝌蚪APP檚 campus Tuesday.
Johnson received the 2015 Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence for his latest novel, 小蝌蚪APP淲elcome to Braggsville,小蝌蚪APP in which four 小蝌蚪APP of California, Berkeley, students stage a dramatic protest during a Civil War reenactment.
小蝌蚪APP淥rganic, plucky, smart, 小蝌蚪APP榃elcome to Braggsville小蝌蚪APP is the funniest sendup of identity politics, the academy and white racial anxiety to hit the scene in years,小蝌蚪APP 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小蝌蚪APP檚 first novel, 小蝌蚪APP淗old It 小蝌蚪APP楾il It Hurts,小蝌蚪APP 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 小蝌蚪APP. 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 小蝌蚪APP淭he Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman小蝌蚪APP and 小蝌蚪APP淎 Lesson Before Dying.小蝌蚪APP
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