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Interview with Brian Michael Murphy

Posted on October 31, 2022 by MALS Program, Ashley Riley

Join us for a hybrid program as Rena Mosteirin, proprieter of Left Bank Bookstore and Lecturer at Dartmouth, interviews Brian Michael Murphy about his new book, "We The Dead; Preserving Data At The End of The World."

"Locked away in refrigerated vaults, sanitized by gas chambers, and secured within bombproof caverns deep under mountains are America's most prized materials: the ever-expanding collection of records that now accompany each of us from birth to death. This data complex backs up and protects our most vital information against decay and destruction, and yet it binds us to corporate and government institutions whose power is also preserved in its bunkers, infrastructures, and sterilized spaces."

Brian Michael Murphy is Dean of the College at Bennington College, and is director of the MFA in Public Action at Bennington as well.

This program will be held in the Mayer Room and also on Zoom.  For more information email Jared Jenisch at jared.jenisch@thehowe.org, or, visit the event page: Rena Mosteirin Interviews Brian Michael Murphy: We The Dead - LibCal - Howe Library

Brian Michael Murphy website: https://www.brianmichaelmurphy.com/

Shop We the Dead on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/We-Dead-Preserving-Data-World/dp/1469668289/

Zoom information:

Date: Thursday, November 10, 2022
Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Time Zone: Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
Location: Mayer Room
Online: This is an online event.
Event URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUvcO6grDMiH9Dz5AOhC-9lmmzvsFqo9o5F

 

About the Interviewer:

Rena Mosteirin is an editor at Bloodroot Literary Magazine, teaches creative writing at Dartmouth College, and owns Left Bank Books, a used bookstore in Hanover, just over the Dirt Cowboy Cafe. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College and earned her MFA at the Bennington Writing Seminars.  Her website can be found at http://www.renajmosteirin.com/

 

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