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Live from Prairie Lights: Jamel Brinkley

Jun 18, 2019

07:00 PM

Prairie Lights Books

15 South Dubuque Street, Iowa City, IA 52240

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A Lucky Man, by Jamel Brinkley

National Book Award Finalist Jamel Brinkley will read from A Lucky Man: Stories. "Each story is a trenchant exploration of race and class, vividly conveying the tension between social codes of masculinity and the vulnerable, volatile self."—The New Yorker

Jamel Brinkley's stories have appeared in A Public Space, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has been a Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellow. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

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