New Yorker Journalist William Finnegan

Writing at
Wesleyan presents

NEW YORKER JOURNALIST

 William
Finnegan

2014 Joan Jakobson Visiting Writer

Wednesday,
April 2nd, 2014

Russell House,
350 High Street, Middletown, CT

8 P.M.

Celebrated NEW YORKER JOURNALIST, William Finnegan, will
read from his upcoming work on Wednesday,
April 2nd, 2014 at 8:00 p.m. in Wesleyan University’s
Russell House, 350 High Street, Middletown, CT.

William Finnegan has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since
1987. He has written recently about poverty, organized crime, immigration, coun­terterrorism,
and international trade and has also contributed articles on surfing, the
Olympics, and punk-rock music. He has twice received the John Bartlow Martin
Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism, and in 2010 his report from
Mexico, “Silver or Lead,” won the Overseas Press Club’s award for best
reporting in any medium on Latin America. He is the author of four books,
including Crossing the Line, and Cold New World: Growing Up in a
Harder Country. His new book, a surfing memoir, is forthcoming in 2014.

Free and open to the public.

Reception and book signing
to follow the reading.

For more information, please
call 860.685.3448 or visit http://www.wesleyan.edu/writing/community/writing-events.html. For program information
contact Anne Greene, agreene@wesleyan.edu or 860.685.3604