Richard Cooke In Your Suburb

Sat 7 Sep 2019

Richard Cooke

Kenmore Library

In Your Suburb

7110

#Performances

#About the event

Duration: 60 minutes

Hear the inimitable political journalist Richard Cooke talk about his award-winning dispatches and essays which capture the schisms and the clamour of Trump’s America.

#Artist

Richard Cooke

Richard Cooke is The Monthly’s US correspondent and contributing editor. His work appears in The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Best of Longform, Best Australian Essays, The Saturday Paper, The Guardian and Australian Foreign Affairs. He is the current Mumbrella Publish Columnist of the Year, and was a finalist in the 2018 Walkley–Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism.

#Moderator

Sarah Klenbort

Sarah Klenbort is a prize-winning short story writer who recently moved to Brisbane after ten years in Sydney, where she taught literature at Western Sydney University and memoir writing at Sydney Community College, various libraries and the Shakespeare Hotel. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, Best Australian Stories, Overland, Island Magazine, Southerly and a variety of US and UK journals and magazines. She has an MFA in fiction from Columbia University and a PhD in English from Binghamton University. Sarah teaches creative writing at UQ.