Reading by Mordecai Richler Writer-in-Residence Ricardo Wilson
On February 17, join the Department of English for a reading of Ricardo Wilson's new work. Prof. Wilson will share work from An Apparent Horizon and Other Stories (2021), as well as from his forthcoming novel 饾檧饾櫕饾櫄饾櫍 Worse than the Nightmare, and a forthcoming work of translation, El Negrero.
February 17, 5:30 pm, Arts 160
There will be wine and other refreshments.
To learn more about Ricardo Wilson's research and creative writing, read his interview with Andria Caputo from the Faculty of Arts.听
Ricardo Wilson, a creative writer and scholar, is an associate professor of English at Williams College and the founder and executive director of听The Outpost Foundation, a residency and arts advocacy organization for writers of color from the United States and Latin America. He has, most recently, extracted from the archive and edited听Troubled Lands, a forthcoming and previously unpublished collection of short fiction from Mexico and Cuba translated by Langston Hughes in 1935 (Princeton University Press) and is the author of听An Apparent Horizon and Other Stories听(PANK Books) and听The Nigrescent Beyond: Mexico, the United States, and the Psychic Vanishing of Blackness听(Northwestern University Press).听An Apparent Horizon and Other Stories听was selected as a finalist for both the Vermont Book Award and the Big Other Book Award.听His writing can also be found in, among other spaces, 3:AM Magazine,听Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire, BOMB, Callaloo,听The Common, CR: The New Centennial Review,听swamp pink, Northwest Review, The Offing, and听Stirring. He is at work on his forthcoming novel听Even Worse than the Nightmare.
The event is free and open to all.