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The Dunes Literary Series, hosted by the Department of English, at Indiana University Northwest resumes with writers from a range of genres and backgrounds. The monthly reading series will feature writers from Northwest Indiana, Chicago and beyond.
Peggy Shinner is the author of You Feel So Mortal/Essays on the Body, which was long-listed for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.
Her essays have appeared in The Paris Review, BOMB, LitHub, Colorado Review, Salon, The Rumpus, and others. Her next collection, Wound Weapon Warning Virtue, is forthcoming and an essay from that collection, “The Rest is History,” won Fourth Genre’s 2022 Steinberg Memorial Essay Contest.
Jesse Rifkin’s This Must Be the Place: Music, Community, and Vanished Spacesin New York City explores the history of back-block music clubs that have disappeared amidst the city’s gentrification. As an historian, he also operates Walk on the Wild Side Tours in New York.
