Acclaimed journalist Hilton Als, who became a staff writer at The New Yorker in 1994 and its drama critic in 2002, will read from his work as part of UGA’s Institute for African American Studies’ fall lecture series. In the past, Als has worked as a staff writer for The Village Voice and an editor-at-large at Vibe magazine, has collaborated on film scripts for Swoon and Looking for Langston and has taught at Yale, Wesleyan University and Smith College. His most recent book, White Girls, which received the LAMBDA Literary Award for LGBT Nonfiction and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, explores themes of race, gender, identity and otherness through a series of essays, memoir and cultural criticism. 

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