Acclaimed writer, Colson Whitehead to speak at St. Joseph's College on Wednesday, November 30 in the Tuohy Hall Auditorium at 6pm. The lecture is entitled “How to Write and the Art of Writing.” The event is free and open to the public.

Colson Whitehead's lecture is the inaugural lecture in the Brooklyn Voices series of events at the Brooklyn Campus. According to St. Joseph's, “the aim of the Brooklyn Voices series is to promote and enhance the creative vitality of our home neighborhoods of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill by providing local writers, artists and intellectuals with a forum in which to discuss and present their works to our neighbors, patrons and students. Through lectures, forums, performances, and public discussion, Brooklyn Voices seeks to make a meaningful contribution to the thriving intellectual culture of the neighborhood and ensure that our community remains a stimulating place in which to live, learn, and do business.”

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