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Story & Sound: The McSweeney's Audio Issue
Thursday, March 24, 2022
10:35 am to 11:35 am
Join us for a discussion about and live performance of McSweeney's Quarterly's first ever audio issue—a riotous exploration of audiovisual storytelling, coproduced with Radiotopia from PRX. We'll talk about the the way sound and text can come together to create an immersive experience of story and experience live excerpts of a handful of pieces in the issue.
Participants
Andrew Leland's book about blindness is forthcoming from Penguin Press. He hosted and produced the Organist for KCRW and has been an editor at the Believer since 2003. His writing has been featured in the New York Times Magazine, 99% Invisible, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere.
Rion Amilcar Scott is the author of story collections The World Doesn't Require You and Insurrections, which won the 2017 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. He earned an MFA from George Mason University and teaches English at the University of Maryland.
Andy Slater is a media artist, researcher, and disability advocate living in Berwyn, Illinois. His heroes are Jim Rockford, Pauline Oliveros, and Darryl McDaniels.
Shayla Lawz is a writer and interdisciplinary artist from Jersey City, New Jersey. She has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Jack Jones Literary Arts, and CAAPP. Her debut collection speculation, n. was chosen by Ilya Kaminsky for the 2020 Autumn House Poetry Prize. She teaches at Pratt Institute.
