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The Laurie and Margo Show/A Tale of Two Books

October19Margo Jefferson; Laurie Stone

Longtime comrades Margo Jefferson, author of Negroland, and Laurie Stone, author of My Life as an Animal, present an evening of spliced tales, setting their books in conversation with each other. If James Brown starts to sing, expect them to bust some moves.

Margo Jefferson is a cultural critic and the author of Negroland: A Memoir, and On Michael Jackson. Negroland received the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. In 1995, while a staff writer for The New York Times she received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. She teaches writing at Columbia University. To learn more about her work visit here.

Laurie Stone is author the author most recently of My Life as an Animal, a series of linked, comic stories. She won the Nona Balakian prize in excellence in criticism from the National Book Critics. She participated in “Novel,” living in a house built by architects and situated in an art gallery in the Flux Factory. Her work has appeared in Fence, Open City, Anderbo, Threepenny Review and many other journals. Her latest collaboration with musical composer Gordon Beeferman, “You, the Weather, a Wolf,” premiered in New York City in May 2016. To learn more about her work visit here.











When: Wed., Oct. 19, 2016 at 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Where: Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia St.

Price: $10 cover includes a drink
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October19Margo Jefferson; Laurie Stone

Longtime comrades Margo Jefferson, author of Negroland, and Laurie Stone, author of My Life as an Animal, present an evening of spliced tales, setting their books in conversation with each other. If James Brown starts to sing, expect them to bust some moves.

Margo Jefferson is a cultural critic and the author of Negroland: A Memoir, and On Michael Jackson. Negroland received the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. In 1995, while a staff writer for The New York Times she received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. She teaches writing at Columbia University. To learn more about her work visit here.

Laurie Stone is author the author most recently of My Life as an Animal, a series of linked, comic stories. She won the Nona Balakian prize in excellence in criticism from the National Book Critics. She participated in “Novel,” living in a house built by architects and situated in an art gallery in the Flux Factory. Her work has appeared in Fence, Open City, Anderbo, Threepenny Review and many other journals. Her latest collaboration with musical composer Gordon Beeferman, “You, the Weather, a Wolf,” premiered in New York City in May 2016. To learn more about her work visit here.

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