Dean Bakopoulos: What Is Your Life? On the Uncertainty Ahead (January 2019)

Bakopoulos’s lecture explores the dynamic and haunting ways uncertainty (both autobiographical and fictional) can fuel one’s work and enhance what’s on the page. Among the authors discussed: Kiese Laymon, Jamel Brinkley, Marguerite Duras, Ottessa Moshfegh, Adrienne Rich, Erica Dawson, and Cathy Song.