On Monday, March 24 at 5:30 pm in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center (RKC), Joel Whitney will read from his work. Introduced and moderated by John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of the Humanities and director of the Written Arts Program Dinaw Mengestu, and follwed by a Q&A, the reading is free and open to the student body.

Joel Whitney is the author of Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World’s Best Writers and Flights: Radicals on the Run. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Believer and The New Republic and he curates Brooklyn Public Library’s literary and cultural programming.

This event is part of the Center for Ethics and Writing’s semester long symposium Writing the Present.