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Please join us for an evening with Oliver Munday as he sits down with Sidik Fofana to discuss his books Don’t Sleep: The Urgent Messages of Oliver Munday and the short story collection Head of Household.
About Don’t Sleep: The Urgent Messages of Oliver Munday:
Part personal history, part design philosophy, and part advocacy, Don't Sleep: The Urgent Messages of Oliver Munday showcases the arresting work of Oliver Munday. Employing humor and menace in equal measure, Munday wields graphic design as a tool of empowerment, activism, and resistance. Drawing from the history and utility of twentieth- century agitprop, from Russian Constructivism to the Black Panthers, Munday updates a timeless medium for the social media age with his stark and often unsettling imagery.
About Head of Household:
From stories about a father who shows up hungover to chaperone his daughter’s kindergarten bowling trip, to another who rediscovers his love of graffiti, and a father who pays for his legal fees and apartment through his OnlyFans earnings, Head of Household is a short story collection that reckons with divorce, financial anxiety, and sexuality to create a collage of the beleaguered father, a man on the frontlines of a masculinity in crisis—stories of men salvaging the shreds of their identities while staging puppet shows and pretending to be ponies for their children.
Presented by the Creative Writing Program at The New School for Social Research.
Sidik Fofana is a graduate of NYU’s MFA program and author of Stories From the Tenants Downstairs. He is a recipient of the 2023 Whiting Award and was named an Emerging Writer Fellow at the Center for Fiction in 2018. His work has appeared in The Sewanee Review and Granta. A public school teacher in Brooklyn, he also teaches Creative Writing at The New School.
The New School offered the first academic creative writing workshop in 1931 and pioneered a new philosophy of education. The idea: students would make their own lives and their own stories part of their education. Today, The New School continues to celebrate and cultivate daring and diverse new voices through its Creative Writing program. The value of this approach is reflected in the publications and achievements of our MFA Creative Writing graduates and faculty.
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