Tuesday, March 24 PIZZA FOR STUDENTS and Reading and Community Conversation in Convocation Hall at 7:00 pm. Writing Workshop in Gailor 132 for students at 12:30 pm with MOUNTAIN GOAT MARKET SANDWICHES!
The Roberson Project on Slavery, Race, and Reconciliation and the Sewanee School of Letters are honored to welcome author Wright Thompson to the Mountain this month. There will be a reading and community conversation in Convocation Hall at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, March 24, focusing on Thompson's book, The Barn, which delves into the land and people surrounding the murder of Emmett Till in Mississippi in 1955. The reading is free and open to the public, and there will be pizza and sodas for students starting at 6:45 pm.
In addition, the School of Letters will sponsor a writing workshop also on March 24 for students (graduate and undergraduate) and alumni with Thompson, School of Letters Director Justin Taylor (Riding With the Ghost, 2020), and alum and author Patrick Dean (Window to Heaven, 2021) entitled "How To Write Hard Things." The workshop will be in Gailor 132 at 12:30 pm. We'll have sandwiches from the Mountain Goat and sodas on hand for lunch.
Thompson is a senior writer for ESPN, contributing writer to the Atlantic, and is the New York Times bestselling author of Pappyland and The Cost of These Dreams. His most recent book, The Barn, was nominated for a PEN America Literary Award. It was named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Slate, Vanity Fair, Time, Kirkus, Smithsonian, and more. Thompson holds a degree in journalism from the University of Missouri and lives in Oxford, Mississippi with his family.
Events are possible with support from the Sewanee School of Letters and the Roberson Project, with special thanks to Friends of the School of Letters and Lee Hancock.
