“My Beloved, My Metropolis: Literary Imagination and the Crisis of an American City” with Héctor Tobar

The Department of English is pleased to welcome Héctor Tobar for the Holmes Institute Lecture, “My Beloved, My Metropolis: Literary Imagination and the Crisis of an American City.”

Tobar is the author of six books, including Our Migrant Souls and The Tattooed Soldier, a faculty member at UC Irvine, and a nationally published journalist. His nonfiction book Deep Down Dark was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and a New York Times bestseller, and was adapted into the film The 33. As a journalist, Tobar was part of the reporting team that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 1992 Los Angeles uprising.

This event is free and open to the KU community and the public.