Date : Thursday, 2 April 2009       From : 7:00pm   To : 9:00pm
   Category : Lectures/Conferences/Symposia       Location : Tuthill


   Event Description :

Scholar Adam Bradley will discuss his edition of Ralph Ellison's second novel, "Three Days Before the Shooting,” to be published by Random House in 2009. Ralph Ellison spent nearly forty years composing his second novel, a follow-up to his 1952 classic, Invisible Man. While he kept writing until just before his death in 1994, he would never finish the book. Instead, Ellison left behind thousands of pages of notes, typescript drafts, and computer print-outs that together comprise an expansive vision of his novel so long in-progress. For fifteen years, the vast majority of this material has been restricted from public view. With the publication of Three Days Before the Shooting... in 2009, readers and scholars alike will have the opportunity to see what Ellison kept to himself for more than half his life. Adam Bradley has been working with Ellison's manuscripts in one capacity or another since he was nineteen years-old, first as a research assistant to Ellison's literary executor, John Callahan, and now as co-editor with Professor Callahan on this unprecedented posthumous publication. While a small, but significant portion of Ellison's second novel was published as Juneteenth in 1999, the vast majority of Three Days Before the Shooting... will be new to readers. For more information please contact Scott Newstok newstoks@rhodes.edu http://www.adamfbradley.com/ellison.php

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