Co-sponsoring: Book Talk with Joseph Skibell

The Center is pleased to co-sponsor this event hosted by the Center for the Study of the American South:

UNC Students (and faculty) are invited to join a book discussion and lunch with professor Joseph Skibell.

Fri., Mar. 22, 1-2:30 PM,

Center for Study of the American South(CSAS)/Love House—410 E. Franklin St.

Lunch will be provided by CSAS.

LIMIT: This event is limited to 25 attendees.

Registration is required.

Joseph Skibell is Professor in the Humanities at Emory University.  His books include: A BLESSING ON THE MOON, THE ENGLISH DISEASE and A CURABLE ROMANTIC,  a collection of true stories, MY FATHER’S GUITAR & OTHER IMAGINARY THINGS, and a mythopoetic study entitled SIX MEMOS FROM THE LAST MILLENNIUM: A NOVELIST READS THE TALMUD. He has received numerous awards, including the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Sami Rohr Award in Jewish Literature, and the Turner Prize. His work has been described as “daring in its … honesty” (New York Times); “witty and profound” (Jerusalem Report); “laugh-outloud humorous” (Forward); “brave … unafraid” (New York Journal of Books); “magical” (New Yorker); “high-energy, wild” (New Republic); and “wholly original” (JM Coetzee).  Skibell’s stories, essays and articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, LitHub, Tablet, the Utne Reader, Fretboard Journal, and many other publications. Skibell lives in Atlanta and Tesuque, NM, and is at work on a new novel.