Written Arts Program, Literature Program, and Art History and Visual Culture Program Present

Culture & Criticism: Writing the Moment

On Tuesday, March 29, at 6p.m., in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center (RKC), Lucy Sante and Peter L'Official will read from their work. Introduced by Bard faculty member Dinaw Mengestu, the two writers will be joined in conversation by Hua Hsu, a recent member of the Bard College Language and Literature faculty.

Lucy Sante’s latest book, a collection of essays titled Maybe the People Would Be the Times, was published in 2020. Her next, Nineteen Reservoirs, will be published in 2022. Her books include The Other Paris, Folk Photography, Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990–2005, and Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York. Her pieces have appeared in the New York Review of Books since 1981, as well as in the New York Times, Harper’s, Granta, The Village Voice, Artforum, Bookforum, Vogue, and many more. She is the recipient of a Whiting Writer’s Award, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Cultural Award from the Belgian-American Chamber of Commerce, a Grammy (for album notes), an American Scholar Award for Best Literary Criticism, an Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography, and Guggenheim and Cullman Fellowships. She has taught at Bard since 1999.

Peter L'Official has published articles and reviews in Grantland, Los Angeles Review of Books, Atlantic Monthly, Village Voice, and GQ, among others, on such subjects as sports gaming environments, conceptual artist Glenn Ligon, and the not-so secret history of Hunter Thompson’s The Rum Diary. His book, Urban Legends: The South Bronx in Representation and Ruin, was published in 2020. He is the recipient of numerous research grants and Derek Bok certificates of distinction in teaching from Harvard, where he previously taught as a fellow at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. He has taught at Bard since 2015.

Hua Hsu is the author of A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific and the forthcoming memoir Stay True. Hsu is a staff writer at The New Yorker, and currently serves on the boards of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and Critical Minded, an initiative to support cultural critics of color.

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For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].

Time: 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium

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