On Wednesday, Sept. 25, at 7 p.m. in the Marano Campus Center auditorium (room 132), the Oswego Reading Initiative invites the campus into conversation with Ryan Lee Wong — acclaimed author of the celebrated novel "Which Side Are You On?"
Beyond earning finalist status for the PEN/Hemingway Award in the category of Debut Novel, this year's ORI selection "Which Side Are You On?" juxtaposes generations, cultures, activism vs. Zen Buddhist philosophy, Los Angeles vs. New York, and didacticism vs. openmindedness.
Wong’s Oswego Reading Initiative talk is presented collaboratively with the Living Writers Series — a class he will visit prior to this public event — and students have commented on the way his novel answers big questions with more questions, such as why the nation is so divided and whether the polarizing sides people take are real or illusory.
The Living Writers Series is supported by ARTSwego and made possible by the Student Arts Fee, as well as the Oswego Reading Initiative, Subnivean magazine and a Library of America grant secured by Roberta Hurtado of the Latino and Latin American Studies program in partnership with Penfield Library.
More vent information is available at calendar.oswego.edu and oswego.edu/artswego.
-- Submitted by the Oswego Reading Initiative Committee