Transit Books describes Lecture:

In twenty-first century America, there is so much that holds or demands our attention without requiring it. Imagine the lecture as a radical opening.

Mary Cappello‘s Lecture is a song for the forgotten art of the lecture. Brimming with energy and erudition, it is an attempt to restore the lecture’s capacity to wander, question, and excite. Cappello draws on examples from Virginia Woolf to Mary Ruefle, Ralph Waldo Emerson to James Baldwin, blending rigorous cultural criticism with personal history to explore the lecture in its many forms―from the aphorism to the note―and give new life to knowledge’s dramatic form.

Lecture is part of the Undelivered Lectures series from Transit Books.

Purchase Lecture here at Transit Books.

Join Mary Cappello and Namwali Serpell for a virtual book launch at Brooklyn’s Community Bookstore on September 8 at 7:30 pm.

Check out advanced review from Kirkus and Publisher’s Weekly.