{"id":6407,"date":"2026-01-06T22:34:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T22:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/?p=6407"},"modified":"2026-02-13T19:33:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T19:33:18","slug":"mitchell-s-jackson-to-join-vanderbilt-reading-series-january-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/mitchell-s-jackson-to-join-vanderbilt-reading-series-january-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitchell S. Jackson to join Vanderbilt Reading Series – February 12 (new date)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday, February 12<\/strong>
\nBook Signing, 6:30 PM<\/strong>
\nReading, 7:00 PM<\/strong><\/p>\n

Vanderbilt Special Collections Library
\n1101 19th Ave South
\nNashville, TN 37212<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Due to weather, this reading has been postponed from January 29.)<\/p>\n

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Mitchell S. Jackson is the winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing<\/a> and the 2021 National Magazine Award in Feature Writing<\/a>. His debut novel The Residue Years<\/em><\/a>\u00a0won a Whiting Award and The Ernest J. Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence. His essay collection\u00a0Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family<\/em><\/a>\u00a0was named a best book of 2019 by fifteen publications. Jackson is also the author of Fly: The Big Book of Basketball Fashion<\/em><\/a>, described by the New York Times<\/em>, as \u201ca coffee-table book that elevates the subject to the same decorative status as a Dior or Gucci monograph.\u201d Jackson\u2019s other honors include fellowships, grants, and awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Creative Capital, the Cullman Center of the NYPL, the Lannan Foundation, PEN, and TED<\/a>. His writing has been featured on the cover of the\u00a0New York Times Magazine<\/em>, New York Times Book Review<\/em>,\u00a0Time<\/em>,\u00a0Esquire<\/em>, and Men\u2019s Health<\/em>, as well as in\u00a0The New Yorker<\/em>, Harpers<\/em>, Harper\u2019s Bazaar<\/em>, The Paris Review<\/em>, The Guardian<\/em>,\u00a0and elsewhere. Jackson is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine<\/em> and a columnist for\u00a0Esquire<\/em><\/a>. He holds the John O. Whiteman Dean\u2019s Distinguished Professorship in the English Department of Arizona State University.<\/p>\n

This event is part of the Gertrude C. & Harold S. Vanderbilt Reading Series<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Thursday, February 12 Book Signing, 6:30 PM Reading, 7:00 PM Vanderbilt Special Collections Library 1101 19th Ave South Nashville, TN 37212 (Due to weather, this reading has been postponed from January 29.)                   Mitchell S. Jackson is the winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":6408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8,18,15,6,17],"tags":[5],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-06-163114.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6407"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6474,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6407\/revisions\/6474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}