The March 20 Third Thursday program will feature novelist Julia Phillips and poet Rodney Leonard. This is the annual “Spring Sessions” reading organized by Southern Humanities Review, the Auburn University literary journal.
Julia Phillips is the author of the bestselling novels Bear and Disappearing Earth, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and one of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year. A 2024 Guggenheim fellow, she lives with her family in Brooklyn.
Rodney Terich Leonard is the author of Sweetgum & Lightning (Four Way Books), winner of the NCPA Gold Award and the Human Relations Indie Book Award, finalist for the National Indie Excellence Award and semi-finalist for The Poetry Society of Virginia Poetry Book Award. He lives in Manhattan.
The location will be Pebble Hill (101 South Debardeleben St. in Auburn). Refreshments and book sales will be available at 6 p.m., and the reading will commence at 6:30. This event is free and open to the public.
The Third Thursday Series is sponsored by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities, the Department of English and Southern Humanities Review in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Auburn University, and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
