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SUMMARY:John Griswold - A Democracy of Ghosts
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DESCRIPTION:A DEMOCRACY OF GHOSTS\, by John Griswold\, is the love story 
 of four couples\, set against the backdrop of the Herrin Massacre of 192
 2. This clash of miners and strikebreakers in Bloody Williamson County\,
  in Southern Illinois\, resulted in the deaths of 21 men -- 19 of them t
 he "scabs" tortured and murdered by average men\, women\, and even child
 ren in what was once the most radical community in America. Griswold has
  drawn from contemporary eyewitnesses and news accounts\, an ethnography
  of the area\, histories\, and his own grandfather's letters to create t
 he lives of four fictional couples whose ambitions\, self-doubts\, and s
 ocial and sexual jealousies contribute to this great American violence t
 hat still echoes down through time.John Griswold has taught undergraduat
 e creative writing (prose)\, literature\, and rhetoric at UIUC since 200
 0. His stories\, poems\, and essays have been in War\, Literature and th
 e Arts\; Brevity\; Perigee\; Ninth Letter\; and Natural Bridge\, which n
 ominated him for the 2001 Pushcart Prize. He's currently at work on a no
 nfiction book to be released in 2010 by The History Press. As Oronte Chu
 rm\, John is also a contributing writer for Inside Higher Ed\, a columni
 st for McSweeney's Internet Tendency\, and has pieces in Mountain Man Da
 nce Moves (McSweeney's Books) and The Best Creative Nonfiction\, Vol. 3 
 (WW Norton).
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LOCATION:Illini Union Bookstore Authors Corner
CATEGORIES:Reading/Signing
CONTACT:Scott Baseler 217-333-2050
ORGANIZER:sbaseler@illinois.edu
URL:http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/674?key=2000010120000101144989
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