Banned Books Week: Carmen Maria Machado Reading

In celebration of Banned Books Week, Carmen Maria Machado will read from her acclaimed memoir, In the Dream House, at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, September 25 at Holmes Lounge. Following her reading, she will discuss book bans and the banning of her own books with WashU Professor of English Melanie Micir. Come early for food and drinks—the reception will begin at 5 p.m.

Machado is the author of the bestselling memoir In the Dream House and the award-winning short story collection Her Body and Other Parties. Her essays, fiction, and criticism have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Granta, Vogue, This American Life, The Believer, Guernica, and elsewhere.

Co-sponsored by the Washington University Center for the Humanities

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