Description
It is 1883, and America is at a crossroads. At a tiny college in Upstate New York, an idealistic young professor has managed to convince Mark Twain, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Confederate memoirist Forrest Taylor, and romance novelist Lucy Comstock to participate in the first (and last) Auburn Writers' Conference for a public discussion about the future of the nation. By turns brilliantly comic and startlingly prescient, The Auburn Conference vibrates with questions as alive and urgent today as they were in 1883--the chronic American conundrums of race, class, and gender, and the fate of the democratic ideal.
Author: Tom Piazza
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 05/01/2023
Pages: 199
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781609388812
ISBN10: 160938881X
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Historical | Civil War Era
Author: Tom Piazza
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 05/01/2023
Pages: 199
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781609388812
ISBN10: 160938881X
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Historical | Civil War Era
About the Author
Tom Piazza's twelve books include the novels A Free State and City of Refuge, the story collection Blues and Trouble, and his nonfiction work Why New Orleans Matters. He was a principal writer for the HBO series Treme, and lives in New Orleans.