When:
Monday, April 27, 2015
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM CT
Where: Harris Hall, # 108, 1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Cost: OPEN FREE
Contact:
Natasha Dennison
(847) 491-3525
Group: American Studies Program
Category: Lectures & Meetings
SCOTT SAUL
English, UC Berkeley
The talk will be something on the order of "Living with Richard Pryor: A Biographer's Tale” including a discussion about the challenges and rewards of building the book's digital companion, which was just named by Slate as one of the 5 best digital history projects of 2014. The talk will be on Monday 27 April at 4:30pm in Harris 108. A reception will follow.
You can find lots of info on the book at www.scott-saul.com, and lots of links to reviews etc. here.
Bio: Scott Saul is a historian and critic who has written for The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, The Nation, Bookforum, and other publications. The author of Becoming Richard Pryor and Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties, he is also the editor-publisher behind Richard Pryor's Peoria, an online archive and an experiment in the digital humanities. He teaches courses in American literature and history at UC-Berkeley, where he is an Associate Professor of English. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and son.
co-sponsorsed by: tba
reception to follow