English Department Master Calendar

Book Release Reading by David Wright Faladé and Chris Kempf

Event Type: Performance
Sponsor: Creative Writing and the Department of English
Location: Spurlock Museum
Date: Feb 6, 2025 6:00 pm
Contact: john dudek
E-Mail: jdudek4@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar: Creative Writing Upcoming Events; David Wright Faladé’s new novel, The New Internationals, was inspired by the correspondence between Wright Faladé’s mother and grandmother, Jews who survived the Nazi occupation of France, and tells the story of an unlikely love triangle—between a Holocaust survivor, a Sorbonne student fromWest Africa, and a black GI—set in post-war Paris.

Christopher Kempf is the author, most recently, of the poetry collection What Though the Field Be Lost (LSU, 2021) and the scholarly book Craft Class: The Writ- ing Workshop in American Culture (Johns Hopkins,2022). Heisatworkonabook of literary nonfiction, Local Color.