{"id":6889,"date":"2021-03-22T15:37:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T19:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=6889"},"modified":"2021-03-26T15:40:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T19:40:04","slug":"book-talk-featuring-national-book-award-finalist-jerald-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2021\/03\/22\/book-talk-featuring-national-book-award-finalist-jerald-walker\/","title":{"rendered":"Book talk: National Book Award Finalist Jerald Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emerson College Professor of Creative Writing Jerald Walker will present a talk and reading on Thursday. April 8 at 6:30 p.m. about his book, <em>How to Make a Slave and Other Essays.<\/em> This recent book was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award.<\/p>\n<p>Walker is a leading essayist on race. Reviewers stated that his recent collection &#8220;slices through this country&#8217;s agitated racial landscape with the tenacity of a thunderbolt.&#8221; His essays are widely anthologized, including five times in <em>The Best American Essays.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This event is co-sponsored by African-American Studies Department, the Black Abolitionist Archive, English Department, History Department and Student Life Office.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/udmercy.campuslabs.com\/engage\/event\/6977150\">Register on Detroit Mercy Live to receive a Zoom link<\/a>.<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emerson College Professor of Creative Writing Jerald Walker will present a talk and reading on Thursday. April 8 at 6:30 p.m. about his book, How &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[645,2009,4210,644,94,2309,139,3684,93,4209,4212,4211,1648,4213,375],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-1N7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6889"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6891,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6889\/revisions\/6891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}