When: Thursday, Oct. 15, 6-7:30 p.m.
Where: Ivy Hall, 179 Ponce de Leon Ave., N.E., Atlanta, Ga.
SCAD students are invited to join the Ivy Hall Literary Salon. The group meets at Ivy Hall on a quarterly basis to discuss publications by authors featured in the Ivy Hall Writers Series. The fall quarter literary salon focuses on the novel “Sag Harbor” by Colson Whitehead. Students are asked to read the book prior to the meeting and come prepared to discuss the storyline, characters and issues addressed in this critically acclaimed novel.
The Ivy Hall Literary Salon is open to all SCAD students. For more information, e-mail Lee Barry Todd, coordinator of cultural programs, or call (404) 253-3324.
Colson Whitehead is one of hottest new authors to arrive on the literary scene. His latest novel,” Sag Harbor,” is a tale of summer boyhood as an African-American teen that harkens back to the summer of 1985 in the Long Island, N.Y., Sag Harbor enclave. Whitehead, who grew up in Manhattan, is a Harvard alumnus who went on to write television, book and music reviews for Village Voice. His first novel, “The Intuitionist,” was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award and a winner of the Quality Paperback Book Club’s New Voices Award. His second novel, “John Henry Days,” received the Young Lions Fiction Award and Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Fiction Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Whitehead’s reviews, essays, and fiction have appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Harper’s and Granta.