LECTURES

Three memoirists discuss going public with deeply personal stories. Screenwriter and actor Marianne Leone (Knowing Jesse) writes movingly about her son?s life and death. Nick Flynn (Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, The Ticking is the Bomb) explores the past with an eye toward impending fatherhood. Jerald Walker (Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion and Redemption) describes his escape from drugs and violence in a crime-ridden Chicago housing project. Moderated by Christina Thompson, author of the memoir Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All.