We are excited to celebrate the release of DOWN ALONG WITH THAT DEVIL’S BONES: RECKONING WITH MONUMENTS, MEMORY, AND THE LEGACY OF WHITE SUPREMACY, by Connor Towne O’Neill. Connor will be in conversation with Brooklyn-based writer and professor Irvin Weathersby. The event is free but registration is required.

Connor Towne O’Neill’s writing has appeared in New York magazine, Vulture, Slate, RBMA, and the Village Voice, and he works as a producer on the NPR podcast White Lies. Originally from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, he lives in Auburn, Alabama, where he teaches at Auburn University and with the Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project. This is his first book.

Irvin Weathersby  is a Brooklyn-based writer and professor from New Orleans. He has earned degrees from Morehouse College, Morgan State University, and The New School where he studied English Literature, Education, and Creative Writing respectively. Since 2003, he has been an educator in various capacities, first as a high school teacher in Baltimore and later as an adult educator in college and library settings. He currently is a full-time professor at Queensborough Community College where he teaches composition and creative writing. Irvin’s writing reflects his passions which include music, literature, art, education, mass incarceration, gentrification, history, biography, and other themes and has been published in Esquire, The Atlantic, the Root, EBONY, Killens Review, Notable Black American Men Book II and elsewhere.