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27
Shorewood Reads 2022: An Author's Journey with Steven Wright
Wednesday, April 27
10:00 am - 11:30 am
Location: Shorewood Village Center
Join Steven Wright, author of The Coyotes of Carthage, for an informational session about writing and publication. Steven will discuss his personal writing journey, the process of getting an agent, finding a publisher, working with an editor, etc.
ABOUT STEVEN WRIGHT
Steven Wright is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School, where he codirects the Wisconsin Innocence Project. From 2007 to 2012 he served as a trial attorney in the Voting Section of the United States Department of Justice. He has written numerous essays about race, criminal justice, and election law for The New York Review of Books.
ABOUT THE COYOTES OF CARTHAGE
Dre Ross has one more shot. Despite being a successful political consultant, his aggressive tactics have put him on thin ice with his boss, Mrs. Fitz, who plucked him from juvenile incarceration and mentored his career. She exiles him to the backwoods of South Carolina with $250,000 of dark money to introduce a ballot initiative on behalf of a mining company. The goal is to manipulate the locals into voting to sell their pristine public land to the highest bidder. Dre arrives in God-fearing, flag-waving Carthage County, with only Mrs. Fitz's well-meaning yet naïve grandson Brendan as his team. Dre, an African-American outsider, can't be the one to collect the signatures needed to get on the ballot. So he hires a blue-collar couple, Tyler Lee and his pious wife, Chalene, to act as the initiative's public face. Under Dre's cynical direction, a land grab is disguised as a righteous fight for faith and liberty. As lines are crossed and lives ruined, Dre's increasingly cutthroat campaign threatens the very soul of Carthage County and perhaps the last remnants of his own humanity.
This event is part of our Shorewood Reads 2022 programming. Shorewood Reads 2022 is co-sponsored by the Shorewood Public Library with support from the Lange Bequest, the Friends of the Shorewood Public Library, and Boswell Book Company.