Connor Towne O'Neill | Down Along with That Devil's Bones
What:
We are delighted to welcome Connor Towne O'Neill. He will appear in conversation with W. Ralph Eubanks to discuss his book Down Along with That Devil's Bones.
- This event is free to attend, but registration is required. You can register for the event here. Once you register, you will receive an invitation to join the event.
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When:
Thursday, September 30th, 2021 at 7:00pm
We work hard to bring events to our community for free, because connecting readers with authors is central to our mission. But these programs are not free for us to put on! If you’re interested in attending this event, we hope you’ll consider purchasing a copy of Down Along with That Devil's Bones from our bookshop. Your support is critical to keeping us here and offering events like this, and we hope to do that for many years to come!
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About the Author:
Connor Towne O'Neill's writing has appeared in New York magazine, Vulture, Slate, and elsewhere, and he works as a producer on the NPR podcast White Lies, a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Audio Reporting. He lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and teaches at Auburn University and with the Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project. Down Along with That Devil's Bones is his first book.
About the Conversational Partner:
W. Ralph Eubanks is the author of A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through A Real and Imagined Literary Landscape. He is also the author of two other works of nonfiction: Ever Is a Long Time: A Journey Into Mississippi’s Dark Past and The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South. A writer and essayist whose work focuses on race, identity, and the American South, his writing has been published in the Hedgehog Review, Vanity Fair, The American Scholar, The Georgia Review, and The New Yorker.
Ordering:
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“We can no longer see ourselves as minor spectators or weary watchers of history after finishing this astonishing work of nonfiction.” —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy
Connor Towne O’Neill’s journey onto the battlefield of white supremacy began with a visit to Selma, Alabama, in 2015.
“This is the book all of us Mississippi writers, dead and alive, need to read.