Thursday, September 01, 2005

By Emily Walsh, PR Intern

Wilmington, NC – Writer and critic Stanley Crouch will speak at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 15 in Cameron Hall, Room 105, at University of North Carolina Wilmington.

Following his talk, Crouch will sign copies of his novel Don’t the Moon Look Lonesome Tonight: A Novel in Blues and Swing. The Jerald Shynett Quartet will perform from 6:30 to 7 p.m. and continue during the signing. There is no charge for admission.

Crouch writes a bi-weekly editorial column for New York Daily News and his writings have been published in Harper’s, The New York Times, The New Republic, Vogue, Downbeat, The Amsterdam News, The Partisan Review, The Reading Room and The New Yorker.

His books include Reconsidering The Souls of Black Folk, written with Playthell Benjamin, and a collection of essays on identity, The Artificial White Man. His second novel, Dead Man Blues for Saber Tooth, which should appear in the winter of 2005

Crouch is currently writing the scripts for an eight-hour television miniseries, and he is completing Kansas City Lightning, a biography of Charlie Parker.

The lecture is sponsored by the UNCW Office of Campus Diversity, Department of Music, Upperman African American Cultural Center and Cape Fear Jazz Appreciation Society.