Acclaimed novelist T. Geronimo Johnson will give a reading, Q&A, and book signing on TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, at 6:00 PM, in the Handwerker Gallery.Acclaimed novelist T. Geronimo Johnson will give a reading, Q&A, and book signing on TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, at 6:00 PM, in the Handwerker Gallery.
Born and raised in New Orleans, T. Geronimo Johnson is the bestselling author of Welcome to Braggsville, which was longlisted for the 2015 National Book Award, and Hold It ’Til It Hurts, a finalist for the 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. He received his M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and his M.A. in language, literacy, and culture from UC Berkeley. He has taught writing and held fellowships—including a Stegner Fellowship and an Iowa Arts Fellowship—at Arizona State University, Iowa, Berkeley, Western Michigan University, and Stanford. He is the recipient of the Ernest J. Gaines Award and the Simpson Family Literary Prize. He lives in Berkeley, California.
Says The New York Times of Johnson's 2015 novel Welcome to Braggsville: "Organic, plucky, smart, 'Welcome to Braggsville' is the funniest sendup of identity politics, the academy and white racial anxiety to hit the scene in years. Recent racial satires like the film 'Dear White People' or Tom Wolfe’s novel 'Back to Blood' fumble to light dead fuses, poke around in long-abandoned attics or simply shoot blanks; they lack a true understanding of where America’s many racial conundrums actually lie. Johnson, by contrast, knows just which dark corners to expose, which cultural buttons to push, which ironies to illuminate and how to whirl an affecting yarn all the while."
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