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For A Good Time In Cambridge: TNC on Tuesday edition

by Tom Levenson|  November 28, 20116:26 pm| 7 Comments

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Just to add to Ta-Nehisi Coates day at the blog, one last reminder:  any Balloon Juicers in the greater Boston area are more than welcome at Ta-Nehisi’s reading/talk at MIT tomorrow night — Tuesday, 29 November.  The festivities start at 7 in MIT’s building/room 6-120.  (Interactive map here.)

Ta-Nehisi will be starting from his work-in-progress, a historical novel set before during and after the Civil War, told through multiple voices — of slaves and former slaves, slave-holders and more.  Readers of this blog will remember Ta-Nehisi’s exceptional work on recovering some of the willed forgetting that marks so much Civil War history during “Confederate History Month” a year or so ago – DennisG highlighted that work as he added his own contributions to the effort.  This latest work is the next iteration of that inquiry — and Ta-Nehisi will talk about some of the specific challenges he’s facing as he tries to write through facts into the sound and texture of the past.

Should be a great time. Come if you’ve the necessary proximity and the interest.  (BTW:  in response to a question on my earlier announcement of this event: it’s free and open to the public, no tickets required.)

 

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  1. 1.

    Aimai

    November 28, 2011 at 6:47 pm

    Cool. I’ll try to come and be a groupie for both of you. What a great evening it will be.
    Aimai

  2. 2.

    J.W. Hamner

    November 28, 2011 at 8:55 pm

    Cool. I’ll definitely be there and I’ll bring my camera.

  3. 3.

    Tom Levenson

    November 28, 2011 at 10:29 pm

    @Aimai: @J.W. Hamner:

    Looking forward to seeing you both.

  4. 4.

    SFAW

    November 28, 2011 at 10:54 pm

    Tom –

    6-120? What is that, a 30-person room? Why not 10-250?

    (Yes, I know 6-120 holds somewhat more than 30, I’m just being a pain in the neck. And I would hope TNC would draw more than it holds.)

    Best place to park? Mass Ave? Kresge lot? Mem Drive?

    I hope I can make it, thanks for posting about it.

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    Tom Levenson

    November 28, 2011 at 11:18 pm

    @SFAW: 150 or so. And why not 10-250? Because I have no idea how many TNC will draw at an engineering school the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. I had Lewis Hyde draw 50, and just after I got to MIT, I was there when Haruki Murakami so overwhelmed 10-250 that the cops came and cleared out half the room. To invoke William Goldman: No One Knows Anything.

    Mem Drive is the closest. Mass Ave.’s OK — so is Ames. If you’ve got an MIT sticker, you can park right on the campus main lot.

  6. 6.

    SFAW

    November 29, 2011 at 12:09 am

    Tom –

    Engineering school? Is that what they do there?

    I was only kidding about 10-250 – it’d be nice to think he’d draw 400+, but I don’t know if that’d be a reasonable expectation.

    No sticker, so I guess I gots to drive around for a bit. I hope I can make it.

  7. 7.

    TheMightyTrowel

    November 29, 2011 at 3:11 am

    I’m sending my dad (a Baltimore native) along. :)

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