Campus Calendar | McCarthy Campus Center Alumni Room
Event Name: Arts & Ideas
Organization: Arts & Ideas
Expected Headcount: 75
Event State: Tentative
Event Locator: 2024-AAKLWW

Barnes, a local author of women's fiction novels, will discuss her writing process, finding an agent, and getting a publishing contract. She'll also talk about her two newest novels, All We Could Still Have about a woman's desperate desire to become a mother and the effect of several failed IVF treatments on her marriage, and The Mulligan Curse, the story of a 54-year-old-woman's wish to be 24 again coming true.

Campus Calendar | Planetarium
Event Name: Arts & Ideas /Arthur Nolletti, Jr. Film
Organization: Arts & Ideas
Event State: Confirmed
Event Locator: 2024-AAKNWN

Cord Jefferson’s directorial debut is a satirical
Molotov cocktail hurled at the commodification of
Black stories. This explosive adaptation of Percival
Everett’s novel Erasure (2001) tells the story of
the writer-academic, Thelonious “Monk” Ellison,
as he deconstructs Hollywood and publishing’s
grotesque appetite for palatable, stereotypical
narratives about contemporary Black life