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The Unseen & the Unsaid
Thursday, March 24, 2022
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm
Issues of race and culture are pressing topics in the US. However, mainstream commentary rarely considers how these issues are illustrated in working-class literature. Writers from poor and working-class backgrounds read stories and novel excerpts that address the various conceptual and literal conflicts their characters face in their day-to-day lives along the Texas-Mexican border, California’s east bay, and the rural Midwest.
Participants
Daniel M. Mendoza is the editor of Stray Dogs: Interviews with Working-Class Writers. His fiction and essays have appeared in journals across the country. He is managing editor of Dissonance.
Keenan Norris is a novelist, essayist, and short story writer. His latest novel is The Confession of Copeland Cane. His short work has appeared in numerous forums, including the Los Angeles Review of Books, Los Angeles Times, and Alta. He teaches at San Jose State University.
Joseph D. Haske is a writer and critic whose debut novel, North Dixie Highway, was released in October 2013. His fiction appears in journals such as Boulevard, Fiction International, the Texas Review, the Four-Way Review, Pleiades, and in the Chicago Tribune's literary supplement, Printers Row Journal.
