About this Event
Join us on Saturday, April 19 at 11am as we welcome Adam Gussow for a talk and signing on his newly released memoir, . Dr. Trudier Harris will be introducing our guest, with more details to come!
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An inspiring memoir about the author’s lifelong quest for racial reconciliation, the love that sustains his interracial family in contemporary Mississippi, and the “Yes we can!” hope for American renewal that fades after the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and the despair-driven rise of Black Lives Matter.
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Adam Gussow is a professor of English at the University of Mississippi and a professional blues harmonica player and teacher. The author of many books on the blues, including Mister Satan’s Apprentice: A Blues Memoir and Beyond the Crossroads: The Devil and the Blues Tradition, he earned an AB and PhD from Princeton and an MA from Columbia. Satan & Adam, a 2018 documentary about his thirty-year, Harlem-based partnership with bluesman Sterling “Mr. Satan” Magee, screened on Netflix for several years. Gussow’s many honors include the C. Hugh Holman Award from the Society for the Study of Southern Literature, the John G. Cawelti Award for Best Textbook/Primer in Popular and American Culture, and the Living Blues Award for Best Blues Book of 2017. His article, “Howard Men: Prince Jones, Carlton Jones, and the Evasions of Ta-Nehisi Coates,” was a Quillette Editors’ Choice of 2023.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Ernest & Hadley Booksellers, 1928 7th St., Tuscaloosa, United States
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