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Marriage, Motherhood and White Trash
Micro-dosing Nancy Isenberg and Benjamin Reiss
Ayelet Waldman Thursday 1–1:45 pm
Thursday 1–1:45 pm Joan Didion Room
Walt Disney Room
In her best-selling history of the class system in America, historian Nancy Isenberg
You won’t want to miss Lucie Arnaz and upends history as we know it by taking on our comforting myths about equality
Ayelet Waldman talking about marriage, and uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing—if
motherhood and micro-dosing LSD. occasionally entertaining—poor white trash. Benjamin Reiss, fellow historian and
Waldman is the author of A Really Good Day, author will join Isenberg in a conversation on the untold history of class in America.
an account of her month-long adventure
micro-dosing LSD to combat her bi-polar
disorder and be a “less difficult” person
to herself and her family. Fifty years after
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and Timothy
Leary’s mantra of turn on, tune in, drop out:
this conversation will introduce us to the
brave new world of LSD.

An American Story

Danzy Senna
Thursday 1–1:45 pm
Anne Rice Room
“Our culture prides itself
Danzy Senna, author of Caucasia and New People, will discuss the line between on variety and choice ...
fiction and memoir and the timely and complex themes that pervade Senna’s work.
Some of the difficult topics Senna revisits in her writing are race, class, and identity at least for those who can
politics, along with manners in contemporary America. afford to choose.”
— Benjamin Reiss

“How does a culture
that prizes equality of
opportunity explain, or
indeed accommodate,
its persistently

marginalized people?”
— Nancy Isenberg

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