Event

Join us for a conversation with two of the editors of American Precariat: Parables of Exclusion (Coffee House Press, 2023), a groundbreaking anthology of essays, co-edited by a collective of award-winning incarcerated writers. The collection takes a sharp look at the complexity and fluidity of class and caste systems in the United States, and shares stories of the unseen and the unspoken, situating individual portraits within societal structures of exclusion, scarcity, and criminality. The conversation at the Writers House, hosted by Creative Writing faculty member Abbey Mei Otis, will focus on a variety of issues raised in the anthology, including connections between economic precarity and the criminal legal system, shifting power in the literary world, and the intellectual revival occurring within US prisons.

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