Macalester College

... singer, went to high school with him.

Is presently at Macalester College.

She's at Macalester College.

Yep.

It's just so lovely to have this picture now of-

Where'd you go to school?

Uh, I started at Macalester College in Minnesota.

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Yep, so division-

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Twin Cities Institute for Talented Youth at Macalester College, and, um, it was a pretty intensive art college that I was getting college credit for in ninth grade.

It was really cool.

I was selected-

It's gonna get you.

I, that is the song that hooked me for that album.

I heard it on the radio and while I was in that, that, uh, summer college thing, we went to the, uh, record store near Macalester College.

I grabbed it and I fucking played it nonstop.

The real question is what happens when a country defines its entire culture using a winner-takes-all television graphic, and what realities disappear in the process.

Written by Andrew Lethem, Professor of Political Science, Macalester College, in The Conversation.

Narrated for ARVA.

Better dead than red.

That'll be on Honky Tonk 98.9. Jeff Papus on the call.

St. Scholastica's at Macalester? I'm going to say Mackerel.

Macalester.

Oh, my God, Jason.

the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, and the Minnesota Book Award, as well as being a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Marlon James has a degree in language and literature from the University of the West Indies, an MFA in creative writing from Wilkes University, and teaches writing at Macalester College in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

He's the author of the novel The Book of Night Women, which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Minnesota Book Award, and John Crowe's Devil, a New York Times Editor's Choice and a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.

His short fiction and nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times, Esquire, Harper's, GQ, Granta, and the Caribbean Review of Books, and he's here today to talk about his first book since winning the Booker, one of the most anticipated releases of 2019, the first installment in his epic fantasy Dark Star trilogy entitled Black Leopard, Red Wolf.

Let's go back in time and talk a little bit about the influences that you've had in your life.

I understand that your family moved to Minnesota from Jefferson City, Missouri, when your father, Don Hudson, was offered a job coaching football at Macalester College in St. Paul back in 1972.

What do you remember about that time when your dad was coaching at Macalester? Yeah.

Yeah,

So after taking that intro class and recognizing also that even within the midst of this predominantly white institution.

I went to Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Even within that context, that I could still be in a classroom that was majority black and brown, I pretty quickly signed on and was committed to figuring out how to make that my major, because at the time it was not a standalone major.

It was It fell under kind of a choose your own adventure major within the college that you could design yourself.