Contact
Thea Klapwald, CCNY Public Relations, 310.980.1231, tklapwald@ccny.cuny.edu
Who
CCNY Professor and author Emily Raboteau in conversation with MIT Professor and essayist Garnette Cadogan
What
The City College of New York’s Professor and author Emily Raboteau is launching her latest book “Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against 'the Apocalypse'” (Henry Holt & Co., 2024) into bookstores and online March 14. To celebrate, The Center for Fiction welcomes back the American Book Award-winning author and critic Raboteau (“The Professor’s Daughter,” “Searching for Zion”) with MIT Lecturer and essayist Garnette Cardogan for an in-person conversation that will also be livestreamed. Her landmark work of nonfiction, was reviewed in the “New York Times” and was an “LA Times” selection, offers Raboteau’s perspective as a mother raising children during this era of polycrises and existential threats, like the over-policing of Black bodies, the pandemic, and climate collapse and. Provocative and innovative, Raboteau’s innovative writing confronts the myriad, multiplying dangers, that constitute life in the 21st century, at the intersections of social, racial, and environmental justice, through the lens of motherhood. Her book is a moving exploration of what it takes to raise thriving children in a world of inequities, without coming undone yourself. During the discussion, Raboteau will share photographs from the book, and afterwards she will sign books. Her work has recently appeared in “The New York Review of Books,” “Orion,” and in “The Atlantic.” She was recently profiled in the “LA Times.” Admission is $7.50. Register here.
When
7 p.m., Thursday, Mar. 14.
Where
The Center for Fiction, 15 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11217, info@centerforfiction.org , 212-755-6710
