[Yale-readings] Fwd: Emily Bernard at Yale Bookstore - Oct 25, 2004

[nancy.kuhl at yale.edu]

Contact:	Richard G. Carlson, Events Coordinator
Yale Bookstore
(203) 777-8440 (Ext. 165)

Media Alert from The Yale Bookstore


What:	Emily Bernard reading from and signing copies of her book, Some 
of My Best Friends:  Writings on Interracial Friendships

When:		Monday, October 25, 2004 at 6:00 p.m.

Where:	The Yale Bookstore, 77 Broadway, New Haven, CT 06511
		

About The Book:  Can friendship transcend the boundaries of race?  Do 
certain companionable qualities or life circumstances make interracial 
friendships more likely to flourish?  Should true friends forgive one 
another occasional incidents of racial ignorance or even 
insensitivity?  Emily Bernard, a black woman who has had white friends 
from the time she was a little girl, has long contemplated questions 
like these.  For answers, she sought out writers from an array of 
backgrounds-white, black, Latino, Asian, Jewish-and asked them to share 
experiences, insights, and feelings.  The result is a collection of 
thought-provoking strikingly diverse essays on a timely, vital, and 
complicated issue.  Some of My Best Friends celebrates interracial 
friendships as it examines their challenges.  Among the contributors 
are Pam Houston, Jee Kim, Darryl Pinckney, Luis J. Rodriquez, Trey 
Ellis, Sandra Guzman, Suheir Hammad, William Ayers, and Susan 
Straight.  They each reveal the mysteries, frustrations, 
disappointments, and precious gifts of friendships, interracial and 
otherwise..

About The Author:  Emily Bernard is the editor of the critically 
acclaimed Remember Me to Harlem:  The Letters of Langston Hughes and 
Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964.  She holds a Ph.D. in American Studies 
from Yale University and has received fellowships from the National 
Endowment for the Humanities, the Ford Foundation, and the W.E.B. 
DuBois Institute for African-American Research at Harvard.  A native of 
Nashville, Tennessee, she is currently an Assistant Professor of 
English at the University of Vermont.

About the Yale Bookstore:
The Yale Bookstore, a Barnes and Noble College Bookstore is located at 
77 Broadway at York Square, New Haven, CT, 06511, (203) 777-8440, 
www.yalebookstore.com.  All events are free and open to the public.  
The bookstore offers a wide selection of bestsellers, titles by Yale 
and local authors, Yale course books and emblematic merchandise, dorm 
supplies, gifts, stationery and Clinique products.  The Yale Bookstore 
Cafe serves Java U coffee and snacks.



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