Darryl Pinckney
Thursday, September 26, 2024 | 8 p.m.
Payne Room, Tang Teaching Museum
Lecture title: "And Some There Will Be: Searching for My Slave Roots"
Darryl Pinckney is a long-time contributor to The New York Review of Books, the author of two novels, "High Cotton" (1992) and "Black Deutschland" (2016), and several works of nonfiction, including "Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature" (2002), "Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy" (2014), and "Busted in New York and Other Essays" (2019). He has contributed to numerous other publications, including The Guardian, Harper’s, Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, The Paris Review, Slate, TLS, Vanity Fair, and Vogue. His several theatrical collaborations with director Robert Wilson have appeared internationally and at Brooklyn Academy of Music. His most recent book is "Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan."
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