CJS Booktalk: The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture.
Join book author Tricia Romano for a candid discussion with her former Village Voice colleagues, Nelson George, Maria Laurino, and J-School professor Alisa Solomon.
This event is open to CUID holders only.
Maria Laurino is the author of the national bestselling memoir Were You Always an Italian?, an exploration of how stereotypes and class prejudice influenced Italian-American identity; the memoir Old World Daughter, New World Mother, a meditation on contemporary feminism; and The Italian Americans: A History, the companion book to a national PBS documentary. A former staff writer for the Village Voice, Laurino’s work has appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, The New Republic, and Salon; her essays have been widely anthologized including in the Norton Reader. Her latest book, The Price of Children: Stolen Lives in a Land without Choice, was featured on CBS News “60 Minutes” and has been translated into several languages. She teaches creative nonfiction in the undergraduate writing program at NYU.
Professor Alisa Solomon began her journalism career at the Village Voice as a theater critic, and while continuing in that role for the 21 years she was on staff, she also covered such beats as US immigration policy, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, LGBTQ politics and culture, and women's sports. She has also written for The Nation, Jewish Currents, Hyperallergic, the NY Times, newyorker.com, The Guardian, The Intercept, American Theater, among others. She is the author of the award-winning books, Re-Dressing the Canon: Essays on Theater and Gender and Wonder of Wonders: A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof.