On the eve of the ACC Tournament, come hear Ed Southern discuss his book Fight Songs: A Story of Love and Sports in a Complicated South. Fight Songs explores the connections and contradictions between the teams we root for and the places we plant our roots; between the virtues that sports are supposed to teach and the cutthroat business they've become; between the hopes of fans and the demands of the past, present, and future.
The Museum Shop will have copies of Fight Songs: A Story of Love and Sports in a Complicated South for purchase.
For questions, please contact Stacey Smith (919) 814-7032
Speaker bio: Ed Southern is the author of Fight Songs: A Story of Love and Sports in a Complicated South and the editor of the anthology The Devil's Done Come Back: New Ghost Tales from North Carolina. His stories and essays have appeared in the Oxford American, The Bitter Southerner, the North Carolina Literary Review, Zona Motel, and elsewhere. A native North Carolinian, since 2008 he has been the executive director of the North Carolina Writers' Network. He lives in Winston-Salem.