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Some Favorite Writers: Justin Torres

Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles , CA, United States

Justin Torres’ latest book Blackouts received the 2023 National Book Award for fiction and was called a “shimmering, fable-like novel” by The Washington Post. Filled with tales-within-tales, redacted pages, illustrations and photographs, Torres excavates the devastating history of the 1941 report Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns, imaginatively exposing stories that had previously been erased. Readings are followed by a discussion with the author and UCLA professor Mona Simpson, who organizes this series. Co-presented by UCLA Department of English. Limited books will be available for purchase. Questions about the event? Visit the Hammer Museum for full details.

Poetry: Monica Youn

Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles , CA, United States

Monica Youn’s most recent volume is FROM FROM, a finalist for the 2023 National Book Award. Among her many honors are the Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundation, the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. An associate professor of English at UC Irvine, she is a former constitutional lawyer, a member of the Racial Imaginary Institute, and a foremost interrogator of what Cathy Park Hong calls “the hidden biases built into the way we speak” and more specifically “the abjection of racial containment.” Organized and hosted by poet, literary critic, and UCLA...