On March 24th, join FIRST THINGS AND THE KING'S COLLEGE AS THEY HOST
JAMES MATTHEW WILSON AND JESSICA HOOTEN WILSON FOR A PANEL DISCUSSION
ON "The FUTURE OF LITERATURE" moderated by Dana Gioia.
SCHEDULE
6:00 p.m.: Reception, _The King's College lobby_
7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.: Panel Discussion and Q&A, _The King's College
City Room_
BOOKS FOR SALE
The following titles will be available for purchase at a highly
discounted rate before and after the event:
* _The Hanging God_
[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1621384020/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0]
by James Matthew Wilson
* _Giving the Devil his Due_
[https://www.amazon.com/Giving-Devil-His-Due-Dostoevsky/dp/1498291376/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=Giving+the+Devil+his+Due&qid=1581545015&sr=8-2]
by Jessica Hooten Wilson
* _The Catholic Writer Today: And Other Essays_
[https://www.amazon.com/Catholic-Writer-Today-Other-Essays/dp/1505114373/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The+Catholic+Writer+Today&qid=1581545040&sr=8-1]
by Dana Gioia
* _99 Poems: New and Selected_
[https://www.amazon.com/99-Poems-Selected-Dana-Gioia/dp/1555977715/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=99+Poems%3A+New+and+Selected&qid=1581545057&sr=8-1]
by Dana Gioia
Attendees may also purchase a BUNDLE DEAL TICKET FOR $32 that includes
all four books.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
JAMES MATTHEW WILSON is Associate Professor of Humanities and
Augustinian Traditions at Villanova University. An award-winning
scholar of philosophical theology and literature, he has authored
dozens of essays, articles, and reviews on all manner of subjects
secular and divine.
He has published nine books, the most recent of which are the poetry
collection _The Hanging God_ (Angelico, 2018) and the poetic sequence
_The River of the Immaculate Conception_ (Wiseblood, 2019). Wilson is
the poetry editor of _Modern Age_ magazine, the series editor of
Colosseum Books, of the Franciscan University at Steubenville Press,
and the director of the Colosseum Institute for writers. He also
serves on the boards of several learned journals and societies.
Wilson has twice been awarded the Lionel Basney Award by the
Conference for Christianity and Literature; he has been a runner up
for both the Foley Prize for Poetry by America magazine and the
Jacques Maritain Essay Prize by Dappled Things magazine. The Dallas
Institute of Humanities and Culture awarded him the 2017 Hiett Prize
in the Humanities, the largest award of its kind.
JESSICA HOOTEN WILSON is Associate Professor of Humanities at John
Brown University, where she directs the graduate certificate in
Classical Christian Studies. She is the author of three books: _Giving
the Devil his Due: Flannery O’Connor and The Brothers Karamazov_,
which received a 2018 Christianity Today book of the year award;
_Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Search for Influence_; and
_Reading Walker Percy’s Novels_. In 2019 she received the Hiett
Prize for Humanities from the Dallas Institute of Humanities and
Culture. She is co-editor of the volume_ Solzhenitsyn and American
Culture: The Russian Soul in the West_, a collection of essays on the
legacy of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Currently, she is preparing Flannery
O'Connor's unfinished novel _Why Do the Heathen Rage?_ for
publication.
DANA GIOIA is an internationally acclaimed poet and writer. Former
California Poet laureate and Chairman of the National Endowment for
the Arts, Gioia was born in Los Angeles of Italian and Mexican
descent. The first person in his family to attend college, he received
a B.A. and M.B.A. from Stanford and an M.A. from Harvard in
Comparative Literature. For fifteen years he worked as a businessman
before quitting at forty-one to become a full-time writer.
Gioia has published five full-length collections of verse, most
recently _99 Poems: New & Selected _(2016), which won the Poets’
Prize as the best new book of the year. His third collection,
_Interrogations at Noon _(2001), was awarded the American Book Award.
An influential critic, Gioia has published four books of essays. His
controversial volume,_ Can Poetry Matter? _(1992), was a finalist for
the National Book Critics Circle award. The book is credited with
helping to revive the role of poetry in American public culture.
Gioia has also edited or co-edited two dozen best-selling literary
anthologies, including _An Introduction to Poetry _(with X. J.
Kennedy) and _Best American Poetry 2018_. His essays and memoirs have
appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic, Washington Post, New York Times,
Hudson Review, and BBC Radio.
Gioia has won many awards including the Laetare Medal from Notre Dame,
Presidential Citizen’s Medal, Aiken Taylor Award in Modern Poetry,
and Walt Whitman Champion of Literacy prize. He has been awarded ten
honorary doctorates.
Gioia teaches each fall semester at the University of Southern
California where he holds the Judge Widney Chair of Poetry and Public
Culture. He divides his time between Los Angeles and Sonoma County,
California.
CONTACT
Contact Susanna Loe at sloe@tkc.edu [http://tkc.edu] with questions.
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lives and careers. A traditional Christian liberal arts college
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