Feb
25
11:00pm
Edward Ball and Seyward Darby, with the Seminary Co-op
By Macmillan Publishers
Edward Ball and Seyward Darby discuss their books LIFE OF A KLANSMAN and SISTERS IN HATE.
Presented by Seminary Co-op Bookstores and Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Purchase Life of a Klansman from Seminary Co-op here.
Purchase Sisters in Hate from Seminary Co-op here.
"[Life of a Klansman] is brave, revealing and intimate, as well as an exploration of how one family’s morally complicated past echoes down to the present. This is a story for our cultural moment, as Americans begin to engage with and acknowledge the ways that white supremacy endures in our society . . . Ball is movingly philosophical about what responsibility his generation holds for the sins of its fathers." —W. Ralph Eubanks, The Wall Street Journal
"[Sisters in Hate is] superbly written . . . [Darby's] focus on the lives of three very different women makes her book as readable as a good novel; skillfully combined with history and analysis, her subjects’ stories provide a better picture of the forces driving white backlash than several of the best sellers that attempted to do so in the wake of Trump’s election.” ―Susan Neiman, The New York Times Book Review
Edward Ball's previous books include The Inventor and the Tycoon, about the birth of moving pictures in California, and Slaves in the Family, an account of his family’s history as slaveholders in South Carolina, which received the National Book Award for Nonfiction. He has taught at Yale University and has been awarded fellowships by the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard and the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center. He is also the recipient of a Public Scholar Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Seyward Darby is the editor in chief of The Atavist Magazine. She previously served as the deputy editor of Foreign Policy and the online editor and assistant managing editor of The New Republic. As a writer, she has contributed to The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Elle, and Vanity Fair, among other publications.
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