This event has passed.Historical Fiction: A Reading and Conversation Sunday, November 18, 2018 @ 1:00 pmRoom 8302 (Building 8, 3rd Floor) 300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States Jon Michael Varese’s The Spirit Photographer is a stunning novel of historical suspense about a charismatic conman haunted—perhaps literally—by a ghost from his past. Add to Schedule + Google Calendar+ Add to iCalendar Details Date: Sunday, November 18, 2018 Time: 1:00 pm Authors Jon Michael Varese Jon Michael Varese is a graduate of Swarthmore College and the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is currently the Director of Public Outreach for The Dickens Project, and has lectured and written widely on nineteenth-century literature for several outlets, including the Guardian, San Francisco Chronicle, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Spirit Photographer (The Overlook Press), a story that evolved from his work in nineteenth-century American history, is his first novel. Boston, 1870. Photographer Edward Moody runs a booming business capturing the images of the spirits of the departed in his portraits. One day, while developing the negative from a sitting to capture the spirit of the young son of an abolitionist senator, Moody is shocked to see a different spectral figure develop before his eyes. The camera has seemingly captured the spirit of a beautiful young woman. Is it possible that the spirit photographer caught a real ghost? When Moody recognizes the woman in the photograph as the daughter of an escaped slave he knew long ago, he is compelled to travel from Boston to the Louisiana bayous to resolve their unfinished business—and perhaps save his soul. But more than one person is out to stop him . . . Rosana Cruz Rosana Cruz is Vice President of Movement and Capacity Building for Race Forward, the Center for Racial Justice Innovation, and has been on the front-lines of racial justice and human rights efforts on the local and national scene for over twenty years. A Miami native, writer, teacher, and public speaker, she holds an MA in Latin American Studies and a BA in Race and Gender. She appears with Jon Michael Varese for a conversation about The Spirit Photographer. Other Language English Occurrence Annual Venue Name: Room 8302 (Building 8, 3rd Floor) Location: 300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Fl 33132 United States + Google Map
Details Date: Sunday, November 18, 2018 Time: 1:00 pm Authors Jon Michael Varese Jon Michael Varese is a graduate of Swarthmore College and the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is currently the Director of Public Outreach for The Dickens Project, and has lectured and written widely on nineteenth-century literature for several outlets, including the Guardian, San Francisco Chronicle, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Spirit Photographer (The Overlook Press), a story that evolved from his work in nineteenth-century American history, is his first novel. Boston, 1870. Photographer Edward Moody runs a booming business capturing the images of the spirits of the departed in his portraits. One day, while developing the negative from a sitting to capture the spirit of the young son of an abolitionist senator, Moody is shocked to see a different spectral figure develop before his eyes. The camera has seemingly captured the spirit of a beautiful young woman. Is it possible that the spirit photographer caught a real ghost? When Moody recognizes the woman in the photograph as the daughter of an escaped slave he knew long ago, he is compelled to travel from Boston to the Louisiana bayous to resolve their unfinished business—and perhaps save his soul. But more than one person is out to stop him . . . Rosana Cruz Rosana Cruz is Vice President of Movement and Capacity Building for Race Forward, the Center for Racial Justice Innovation, and has been on the front-lines of racial justice and human rights efforts on the local and national scene for over twenty years. A Miami native, writer, teacher, and public speaker, she holds an MA in Latin American Studies and a BA in Race and Gender. She appears with Jon Michael Varese for a conversation about The Spirit Photographer.
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