Event
The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA
Join us on Wednesday, December 4, at 5 pm, for a discussion with the US editor of The London Review of Books and current Guggenheim Fellow, Adam Shatz, as he converses with Amber Joesph-Zorn about his latest book on Frantz Fanon.
Featured Speakers
Adam Shatz is the US editor of The London Review of Books and a contributor to The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and other publications. He is also a visiting professor at Bard College, and the host of the podcast “Myself with Others,” produced by the pianist Richard Sears. Raised in Massachusetts, he studied history at Columbia University and has lived in New York City since 1990. He is the author of three books: Prophets Outcast: A Century of Dissident Jewish Writing about Zionism and Israel (Nation Books); Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination (Verso); and The Rebel’s Clinic: the Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon (FSG).
Amber Joesph-Zorn is a writer and educator originally from New York City. Before earning an MFA in creative writing at Rutgers-Camden, she taught social studies and English in New York City public schools for over a decade. Her work explores race, place, class, and afterlives, and has been supported by Tin House and the Key West Literary Seminar. Her writing can be found in the Brooklyn Rail, Kweli Journal and elsewhere. She currently lives in Philadelphia. Books have and will keep on changing her life.