Thomas Glave will be reading from his recent collection of short stories. Hazel Carby will introduce the author and lead off the discussion. Please join us.

Glave is the acclaimed author of the previous collection of stories, Whose Song? He is known for his stylistic brio and courageous explorations into the heavily mined territories of race and sexuality. Here he expands and deepens his lyrical experimentation in stories that focus -- explicitly and allegorically -- on the horrors of dictatorships, war, anti-gay violence, the weight of traumatized memory, secret fetishes, erotic longing, desire, and intimacy.

Thomas Glave is an O.Henry award-winning author and was named a Village Voice Writer on the Verge in 2001. His previous books are Whose Song? and Words to Now: Imagination and Dissent. He is the editor of Our Carribean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles. He is the 2008-2009 Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Professor in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at MIT.

"Glave's disruption of form is a powerful metaphor for sexual, racial, and geopolitical disjunctions. Glave is a gifted sylist...blessed with ambition, his own voice and an impressive willingness to dissect how individuals actually think and behave." -- NYT Book Review