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<b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;line-height:117%">Cornelius<span style="letter-spacing:-1.15pt">
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<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right:283.75pt">Hosted in conjunction with the undergraduate class Approaches<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt">
</span>to Contemporary Biography<span style="letter-spacing:-.05pt"> </span>at Beinecke<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt">
</span>Library<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:-.45pt">
</span>co$B!>(Bsponsored<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>by<span style="letter-spacing:-.55pt">
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<b><i><span style="font-size:20.0pt;line-height:125%">Brutal<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt">
</span>Imagination:<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>A<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt">
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</span>2024 Beinecke Mezzanine<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<i>Brutal Imagination </i>is a powerful examination of the notorious<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt">
</span>1994<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>incident<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt">
</span>in<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>which<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt">
</span>a<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>white<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt">
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</span>South<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Carolina,<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">
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</span>a<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Black<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">
</span>man had kidnapped her children. The FBI searched for the man until Smith confessed that she had in$B!>(B vented<span style="letter-spacing:-.35pt">
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</span>her<span style="letter-spacing:-.3pt"> </span>children.<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt">
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt">A<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>collaboration<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">
</span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">
</span>Beinecke<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Rare<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt">
</span>Book<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt">
</span>Manuscript<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt"> </span>Library,<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">
</span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>Yale<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">
</span>Public<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>Humanities<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">
</span>Program,<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">
</span>Department<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt">
</span>Theater<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt"> </span>and Performance Studies, hosted in conjunction with the undergraduate class Approaches to Contemporary Biography at Beinecke Library.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">***<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">The Yale-Readings Listserv is sponsored by the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. To post announcements about poetry and fiction readings,
send the full text of the announcement, including contact information, to <a href="http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/yale-readings">
<span style="color:#0563C1">nancy.kuhl at yale.edu.</span></a> Messages sent directly to the Yale-Readings list may not be posted.
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">For more information about Poetry at the Beinecke Library, visit: Poetry at Beinecke Library:
<a href="https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/blogs/poetry-beinecke-library"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/blogs/poetry-beinecke-library</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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