{"id":55882,"date":"2024-03-12T11:23:51","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T15:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=55882"},"modified":"2024-03-12T16:42:57","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T20:42:57","slug":"my-monticello-author-jocelyn-nicole-johnson-to-speak-at-writers-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2024\/my-monticello-author-jocelyn-nicole-johnson-to-speak-at-writers-read\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My Monticello\u2019 author Jocelyn Nicole Johnson to speak at Writers Read\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Date<\/strong>: Tuesday, March 19<br \/><strong>Time<\/strong>: 7 p.m.<br \/><strong>Location<\/strong>: Martin Chapel<br \/><strong>Admission<\/strong>: Free and open to the public<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jocelyn Nicole Johnson<\/strong>, author of <em>My Monticello<\/em> (2021), will read from her collection of short stories and field questions at EMU\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/language-and-literature\/writers-read\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Writers Read<\/a> program on Tuesday, March 19.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A finalist for the prestigious Kirkus Prize for Fiction, <em>My Monticello <\/em>appeared on many \u201cBest of\u201d lists, including <em>The<\/em> <em>New York Times<\/em>\u2019 \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2021\/11\/22\/books\/notable-books.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">100 Notable Books of 2021<\/a>\u201d and <em>Time<\/em>\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6125901\/best-fiction-books-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">10 Best Fiction Books of 2021<\/a>.\u201d One of its short stories, \u201cControl Negro,\u201d was anthologized in <em>The Best American Short Stories 2018<\/em>, guest edited by Roxane Gay and read live by LeVar Burton.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Its title story, \u201cMy Monticello,\u201d is set in an apocalyptic near-future Charlottesville, Virginia, which is overrun by a white, racist militia. Da&#8217;Naisha, a young Black descendant of Sally Hemmings and Thomas Jefferson, leads her neighbors to take refuge in the historic, abandoned plantation house of her ancestors.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/books\/jocelyn-nicole-johnsons-my-monticello-explores-americas-racist-past--and-present--with-grace\/2021\/10\/14\/65c872a6-2c7b-11ec-985d-3150f7e106b2_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">review<\/a> for <em>The Washington Post<\/em>, Anissa Gray writes that&nbsp;<em>My Monticello<\/em>&nbsp;\u201cis, quite simply, an extraordinary debut from a gifted writer with an unflinching view of history and what may come of it.\u201d Johnson, an alumna of James Madison University, worked as a public school art teacher for 20 years. She lives in Charlottesville as a full-time writer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next morning, Johnson will speak at Convocation on Wednesday, March 20, at 10:10 a.m. at Common Grounds Coffeehouse. A book signing will follow both events, which are free and open to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The events are presented by EMU Language and Literature with the EMU Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: Tuesday, March 19Time: 7 p.m.Location: Martin ChapelAdmission: Free and open to the public Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, author of My Monticello (2021), will read from her collection of short stories <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2024\/my-monticello-author-jocelyn-nicole-johnson-to-speak-at-writers-read\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about \u2018My Monticello\u2019 author Jocelyn Nicole Johnson to speak at Writers Read\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":302,"featured_media":55898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4515,5583,14184,17562,356,5623,4513,5730],"tags":[18044,18045,6374],"feature":[17427,17426,17241],"class_list":["post-55882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-campus-community","category-campus-guests","category-digest","category-language-and-literature","category-special-programs","category-student-life","category-undergraduate-programs","tag-jocelyn-nicole-johnson","tag-my-monticello","tag-writers-read","feature-emu-home-page-feature","feature-myemu-feature","feature-news-feature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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