LAST CHANCE: RCWS

RIVER CITY WRITERS SERIES CONCLUDES ITS SPRING LINEUP WITH:

Christine Kenneally, Joshua Prager and Stacy Sullivan. These three are journalists and authors of nonfiction books.

Christine Kenneally is a freelance journalist and author who has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Discover, Slate and Salon, as well as other publications. Her book, The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language, was published by Viking in 2007. The paperback is due in May 2008. Before freelancing, she received a Ph.D. in linguistics from Cambridge University and a B.A. (Hons) in English and Linguistics from Melbourne University. She was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, and she now lives with her family in Brooklyn.

Joshua Prager grew up in New Jersey and studied music theory at Columbia College. He is a senior special writer at the Wall Street Journal and lives in New York City. The New York Times Book Review had this to say about Prager's book The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the Shot Heard Round the World (Vintage, 2008):

The title of Joshua Prager's winning new book comes from Blake, its theme of suspicion and guilt from Hawthorne, its method from Woodward and Bernstein. A baseball whodunit on an epic scale, it offers a heretofore secret view of the game's most memorable moment, a view that challenges verities about fair play, right conduct and lasting fame.... 'The Echoing Green' is a revelation and a page turner, a group character study unequaled in baseball writing since Roger Kahn's 'Boys of Summer' some three decades ago.


Stacy Sullivan is the author of Be Not Afraid, For You Have Sons in America: How a Brooklyn Roofer Helped Lure the US into the Kosovo War, which tells the story of how a Kosovar émigré spearheaded a multi-millions dollar fundraising effort from his Brooklyn roofing company and launched a guerrilla army in the Balkans. She covered the war in Bosnia for Newsweek magazine, and her articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, New York Magazine, Men’s Journal as well as the op-ed pages of the New York Times and the Washington Post. She is now an advisor on counter-terrorism for Human Rights Watch, the largest US-based human rights organization.

Reception and Reading: March 27 @ 6 PM and 7 PM, respectively, Galloway Mansion, 1822 Overton Park Avenue (Click HERE for directions from The UofM)
Interview: March 28 @ 10:30 AM, 456 Patterson