An afternoon with writer & playwright Darryl Pinckney

Date
Mar 6, 2025, 4:30 pm6:00 pm

Details

Event Description

The Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies presents an afternoon with writer & playwright Darryl Pinckney

Darryl Pinckney is a long time contributor to The New York Review of Books, the author of two novels, High Cotton (1992) and Black Deutschland (2016), and several works of nonfiction, including Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature (2002), Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy (2014), and Busted in New York and Other Essays (2019). He has contributed to numerous other publications, including The Guardian, Harper’s, Los Angeles Times, The Nation(Link is external), The New Republic, The New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, The Paris Review, Slate, TLS, Vanity Fair, and Vogue. His several theatrical collaborations with director Robert Wilson have appeared internationally and at Brooklyn Academy of Music. His most recent book is Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan(Link is external).

This event is part of the Baldwin Circles project, and co-sponsored by the Humanities Council.

A light reception will follow.