The Atlantic staff writer Thomas Chatterton Williams will be in conversation with author and Fairfield Univeristy MFA faculty member Phil Klay. Williams is the author of the 2019 book Self-Portrait in Black and White and visiting professor of the humanities and senior fellow at the Hannah Ardent Center at Bard College, and a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow.

In 2022, Williams released his first book, Losing My Cool: How a Father’s Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-Hop Culture, a coming-of-age story that reflects on Williams’ adolescence in New Jersey in comparison to his father’s experience in the segregated South.