If you’d like to join us, please email a Zoom invitation. We are meeting virtually during the COVID pandemic. The Senior Pride Book Club meets every third Wednesday of the month from 2:00 to 3:30. Michener fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, Walker is a professor of creative writing at Emerson College. He has published in magazines such as Creative Nonfiction, Harvard Review, The Missouri Review, River Teeth, Mother Jones, The Iowa Review, and Oxford American, and he has been widely anthologized, including five times in Best American Essays. The recipient of the University of Texas at Austin’s James A. Jerald Walker is the author of The World in Flames: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult and Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Redemption, winner of the 2011 PEN New England/L.L. Whether confronting the medical professions racial biases or attempting to break free of societal stereotypes, Walker blends personal revelation and cultural critique in a series of short essays. Walker refuses to lull his readers instead his missives urge them to do better as they consider, through his eyes, how to be a good citizen, how to be a good father, how to live, and how to love.How to Make a Slaveby Jerald Walker is an often humorous examination of what it is to grow and exist as a black American male. The result is a bracing and often humorous examination by one of America’s most acclaimed essayists of what it is to grow, parent, write, and exist as a black American male. Whether confronting the medical profession’s racial biases, considering the complicated legacy of Michael Jackson, paying homage to his writing mentor James Alan McPherson, or attempting to break free of personal and societal stereotypes, Walker elegantly blends personal revelation and cultural critique. Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award in Nonfictionįor the black community, Jerald Walker asserts in How to Make a Slave, “anger is often a prelude to a joke, as there is broad understanding that the triumph over this destructive emotion lay in finding its punchline.” It is on the knife’s edge between fury and farce that the essays in this exquisite collection balance.
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