Morgan Jerkins is the author of the New York Times bestseller, This Will Be My Undoing, and the Senior Editor of ZORA. Morgan Jerkins and Rion Amilcar Scott will discuss Jerkin's new book as well as their respective writing practices and approaches to history. The World Doesn't Require You is newly out in paperback on August 25th. His two short-story collections, Insurrections, and most recently, The World Doesn't Require You, populate his fictional town of Cross River, Maryland, a largely black settlement founded in 1807 after the only successful slave revolt in the United States. Instead of excavating history, Rion Amilcar Scott invents it. Jerkins sets out to recover some of what was lost in her own personal family memory and identity, while exploring similar experiences of loss and reclamation for African Americans across the country. Her family are among those who ventured out in search of better lives, and among those who suffered enduring "ruptures in cultural memory" during the exodus. Morgan Jerkins, senior editor at ZORA, has been called a "prophet who deals with the past." In her new book, Wandering in Strange Lands, Jerkins travels some of the routes that brought 6 million African Americans out of their homes in the South during the period between 19 that is known as the Great Migration. Morgan Jerkins and Rion Amilcar Scott on history, memory, fiction, and Jerkin's new book, Wandering in Strange Lands.
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