About this collection

Novelists, short-story writers, essayists and memoirists, artists and theorists, historians, and storytellers: from James Baldwin in 1960 on the art of the novelist, to Joan Didion's first public reading; Kathy Acker reading from manuscript in 1977; Jackie Wang debuting Carceral Capitalism with story-writer Lily Huoang; Frank Wilderson previewing his memoir Afropessimism a year before publication; radical historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz with friends; Lakota Sun Dance Chief David Swallow Jr. with Hafez Modirzadeh; and World War II Conscientious Objectors at City Light Bookstore. (Programs arranged alphabetically by author surname or program title.)