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Humanities Without Boundaries: Dave Eggers And Valentino Achak Deng
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Wed Nov 4
7:30 pm
Humanities Without Boundaries: Dave Eggers And Valentino Achak Deng at Chazen Museum of Art
Postmodern lit poster boy Dave Eggers is an even hotter commodity than usual due to his new novel The Wild Things (a companion piece for the Where The Wild Things Are movie, which he also co-wrote). But he’s always been at his best when deconstructing established storytelling forms—in such books as his breakthrough A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius, and as the founder of the popular lit-mag McSweeney’s. In 2006’s What Is The What, Eggers penned an “autobiography” of Valentino Achak Deng, a Sudanese refugee and “Lost Boy” who left his home and family in the wake of civil war, and eventually wound his way to Atlanta. In 2006, Eggers and Deng created the Valentino Achak Deng Foundation to help rebuild Sudanese communities, and the two will be speaking here as part of the Humanities Without Boundaries lecture series sponsored by UW-Madison’s Center for the Humanities.
Chazen Museum of Art 800 University Ave, Madison, WI
Postmodern lit poster boy Dave Eggers is an even hotter commodity than usual due to his new novel The Wild Things (a companion piece for the Where The Wild Things Are movie, which he also co-wrote). But he’s always been at his best when deconstructing established storytelling forms—in such books as his breakthrough A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius, and as the founder of the popular lit-mag McSweeney’s. In 2006’s What Is The What, Eggers penned an “autobiography” of Valentino Achak Deng, a Sudanese refugee and “Lost Boy” who left his home and family in the wake of civil war, and eventually wound his way to Atlanta. In 2006, Eggers and Deng created the Valentino Achak Deng Foundation to help rebuild Sudanese communities, and the two will be speaking here as part of the Humanities Without Boundaries lecture series sponsored by UW-Madison’s Center for the Humanities.
Updated 02/24/2010
