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Vinson Cunningham at The Open Book
Vinson Cunningham speaks at the University of South Carolina's spring literary series, The Book Book, which is free and open to all. Feel free to stay after the talk to have a book signed and enjoy light refreshments. Vinson Cunningham is a staff writer and a theatre critic at The New Yorker and a Pulitzer Prize Finalist. His essays, reviews, and profiles have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review,McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and elsewhere. In 2020, he was a finalist for a National Magazine Award for his profile of comedian Tracy Morgan. A former White House staffer, he has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, the Yale School of Art, and Columbia University’s School of the Arts. His debut novel, Great Expectations, follows a young black campaign staffer working on the historic presidential campaign of an Illinois Senator. The book has been lauded for its character insights, gem-like prose, and skillful grappling with race. Washington Post-reviewer Ron Charles describes it as “a coming-of-age story that captures the soul of America,” while Publishers Weekly declares that it “matches the scale of its namesake.” The Wall Street Journal calls Great Expectations “one of the smartest and most involving political novels in ages.”
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