Peter Coviello: IS THERE GOD AFTER PRINCE? (With Jared Hickman)
Join the Ivy Bookshop and Bird in Hand for our latest event. In this vibrant collection of essays, Is There God after Prince?: Dispatches from an Age of Last Things, Peter Coviello examines what it means to love art, culture, and people in an age of accelerating disaster. Exploring examples of popular culture including The Sopranos, The Shining, Joni Mitchell, Pavement, Prince (of course), and more, Coviello illuminates the strange ways the things we cherish help us to hold on to life and to its turbulent joys. We are delighted that JHU professor Jared Hickman will be joining Coviello for this exciting event. We hope you will join us, too!
Peter Coviello is the author of six books, including Make Yourselves Gods, a finalist for the 2020 John Whitmer Historical Association Best Book Prize; Tomorrow’s Parties, a 2013 finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies; and Long Players, a memoir selected as one of ARTFORUM’s Ten Best Books of 2018. His newest book, Is There God After Prince?: Dispatches from an Age of Last Things, was selected as a “Most Anticipated” title by both The Millions and the Lambda Literary Review, and appeared in year-end lists for 2023 from the Chicago Tribune, the Seminary Co-op Bookstore, and elsewhere. He taught for many years at Bowdoin College and since 2014 has been at UIC, where he is Professor and Head of English.
Jared Hickman works on the phenomenological history of the global space opened up by early modern European expansion into the Americas and beyond. He is the author of Black Prometheus: Race and Radicalism in the Age of Atlantic Slavery (Oxford University Press, 2016), a study that charts the modern revival and reinvention of the ancient titan across genres (from slave narrative to high Romantic poetry to Marx’s dissertation) and geographies (U.S., Cuba, Brazil, Britain, the Caucasus, and more) and in so doing attempts to map the racialized cosmos of global modernity.
