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CLA Presents: Carvell Wallace

February 20 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

The Center for Literary Arts is pleased to present author Carvell Wallace in a reading from Another Word for Love, a transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for healing. This event takes place on Thursday, February 20, 2025 at Hammer Theatre at 6:30 PM.

In Another Word for Love, Carvell Wallace excavates layers of his own history, situated in the struggles and beauty of growing up Black and queer in America. Wallace is an award-winning journalist who has built his career on writing unforgettable profiles, bringing a provocative and engaged sensitivity to his subjects. Now he turns the focus on himself, examining his own life and the circumstances that frame it—to make sense of seeking refuge from homelessness with a young single mother, living in a ghostly white Pennsylvania town, becoming a partner and parent, raising two teenagers in what feels like a collapsing world.

With courage, vulnerability, and a remarkable expansiveness of spirit—not to mention a thrilling, and unrivaled, storytelling verve—Another Word for Love makes an irresistible case for life, healing, the fullness of our humanity, and, of course, love. It could be called a theory of life itself—a theory of being that will leave you open to the wonder of the world.​

Carvell Wallace grew up between Southwestern PA, Washington DC, and Los Angeles. He attended Tisch School for the Arts and worked as a stage actor before spending fifteen years in direct service youth non-profits. He has covered arts, entertainment, music, culture, race, sports, and parenting for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Slate, GQ, Pitchfork, MTV News and others. As a podcast host, he has been nominated for a Peabody and won a Kaleidoscope Award and was the Slate parenting advice columnist. He is the co-author of the New York Times best-selling basketball memoir The Sixth Man with Andre Iguodala. He lives in Oakland and has two adult children, a comfortable couch, and a lot of plants.

This event is made possible thanks to the support of the Joyce Milligan Family Foundation, the Martha Heasley Cox Lecture and the College of Humanities and the Arts’ Artist Excellence Programming Grant.

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Date:
February 20
Time:
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
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Website:
https://events.sjsu.edu/event/cla-presents-carvell-wallace

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Hammer Theatre Center
101 Paseo De San Antonio
San Jose, CA 95113 United States
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(408) 924-8501
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