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Emily Bernard on Pursuing Your Truth as a Writer

An excerpt from The Yale Review's Spring Festival

Emily Bernard

During The Yale Review's Spring 2023 Literary Festival, Emily Bernard participated in a roundtable discussion, "Reading in an Age of Crisis," with Garth Greenwell, Kathryn Lofton, and The Yale Review's editor, Meghan O'Rourke. Watch a recording of the entire event here.

Emily Bernard is the Julian Lindsay Green and Gold Professor of English at the University of Vermont and the author of five books, including Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine.
Originally published:
June 21, 2023

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