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Emily Rapp Black
May 7, 2015
Emily Rapp Black reads from a new essay. Rapp Black is the author of Poster Child: A Memoir and The Still Point of the Turning World, a New York Times bestseller. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Salon, Slate, The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, Redbook, and The Los Angeles Times. She holds the Joseph M. Russo Endowed Chair of Creative Writing at the University of New Mexico.
Presented by the Committee on Creative Writing’s Emerging Writers Series.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to jmhaley@uchicago.edu.
Emily Rapp Black
May 7, 2015
Emily Rapp Black reads from a new essay. Rapp Black is the author of Poster Child: A Memoir and The Still Point of the Turning World, a New York Times bestseller. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Salon, Slate, The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, Redbook, and The Los Angeles Times. She holds the Joseph M. Russo Endowed Chair of Creative Writing at the University of New Mexico.
Presented by the Committee on Creative Writing’s Emerging Writers Series.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to jmhaley@uchicago.edu.
