An Evening with Ocean Vuong, in conversation with Chloé Cooper Jones
Liberty Hall
644 Massachusetts St, Lawrence, KS 66044, USA
Kansas
38.9714902
-95.2356714
Description
The Commons at KU presents: An Evening with Ocean Vuong, in conversation with Chloé Cooper Jones
Ocean Vuong is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collections Night Sky with Exit Wounds and Time is a Mother, as well as the New York Times bestselling novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. A recipient of the 2019 MacArthur “Genius” Grant, he is also the winner of the Whiting Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize. His writings have been featured in The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, he currently lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Chloé Cooper Jones is a professor, journalist, and the author of the memoir Easy Beauty, which was named a best book of 2022 by The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, TIME Magazine, and was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Memoir. She was also a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Feature Writing in 2020. She is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient, a Howard Foundation Fellow, and an Associate Professor of Writing at Columbia University. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Chloé grew up in Tonganoxie, Kansas and received an MFA and a PhD from The University of Kansas.
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Event is in the Main Theater with balcony and floor seating. The top tier of the Main Theater floor is wheelchair accessible. All tickets are General Admission.
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Start:
2024-09-26T19:00:00-05:00
End:
2024-09-26T22:00:00-05:00
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575
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25
