Please Join the English Dept. for a book talk with Justin Torres and Chekwube Danladi on Friday, March 1st.
Justin Torres comes to campus to read from his recent National Book Award-winning novel Blackouts, and to discuss it with Writer-in-Residence Chekwube Danladi. His debut novel, We the Animals, won the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, was translated into fifteen languages, and was adapted into a feature film. He was named a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35," a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library. His short fiction and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, Granta, Tin House, The Washington Post, LA Times Image Magazine, and Best American Essays. He lives in Los Angeles, and teaches at UCLA.
