S274. CANCELLED: You've Got It Wrong: Writing against Misperceptions

Status: Not Accepted

Room 301, Henry B. González Convention Center, Ballroom Level
Saturday, March 7, 2020
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm

 

In an age of misinformation, how do writers of nonfiction make space for work that challenges dominant narratives? These four Graywolf Press writers actively overturn commonly held assumptions about their subjects, whether examining farming in the rural Midwest, abuse in queer relationships, the AIDS epidemic by way of Provincetown, or gun violence and water usage in the American Southwest. These writers will read and discuss with publisher Fiona McCrae how their work shatters misperceptions.


Outline & Supplemental Documents

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Participants

Moderator:

Fiona McCrae has been the director and publisher of Graywolf Press since 1994.

Marie Mutsuki Mockett's memoir, American Harvest: God, Country and Farming in the Heartland, follows her travels through seven agricultural states and tries to reconcile competing ideas of our national story. It was a finalist for the 2017 Lukas Prize.

Carmen Maria Machado is the author of National Book Award finalist story collection Her Body and Other Parties and the memoir In the Dream House. She is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, and her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, Tin House, Conjunctions, and elsewhere.

Ander Monson is the author of eight books, most recently I Will Take the Answer and The Gnome Stories. He teaches at the University of Arizona and edits the magazine DIAGRAM, the website Essay Daily, March Xness, and the New Michigan Press.

Paul Lisicky is the author of six books including Later, The Narrow Door, and Unbuilt Projects. A Guggenheim Fellow, he is an associate professor in the MFA program at Rutgers University-Camden and serves on the writing committee of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.

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