Wednesday, November 13, 2024
5:30 PM (CT)
Student Center Terrace
Event Type
(none)
Contact
Dr. Charlotte Pence
Department
Stokes Center for Creative Writing
Link
https://mastercalendar.southalabama.edu/EventDetails.aspx?EventDetailId=45917
Fresh off the publication of a major new novel, Yuri Herrera will visit the University of South Alabama as part of the Stokes Center for Creative Writing’s Visiting Writers Series. Hailed by The New York Times as a must-read fall book, Herrera's new novel, Season of the Swamp (Graywolf Press) is set in nineteenth-century New Orleans, where a young exile named Benito Juárez disembarks at a fetid port city at the edge of a swamp. Years later, he will become the first indigenous head of state in the postcolonial Americas.
Hererra will read from and discuss his work at 5:30 pm on Wednesday, November 13 on campus in the Student Center Terrace Room. There will also be a reception and book signing at the conclusion of this event. This event is free and open to the public. For questions, email Dr. Charlotte Pence (
cpence@southalabama.edu).