A.O. Scott Coming to Speak at Wes

I just received the exciting news that A.O. Scott, a film critic for the New York Times, is coming to speak at Wes on April 29.

He is speaking for free as part of the Times’ Readership Program, which provides free papers to students. The program is funded by the WSA and an anonymous donor.

More details will come some time after break, but save the date now!

A.O.’s bio:

A. O. Scott joined The New York Times as a film critic in January 2000. Previously, Mr. Scott was a Sunday book reviewer for Newsday and a frequent contributor to Slate, The New York Review of Books and many other publications.

He has served on the editorial staffs of Lingua Franca and The New York Review of Books. He also edited “A Bolt From the Blue and Other Essays,” a collection by Mary McCarthy, which was published by The New York Review of Books in 2002.

Born on July 10, 1966, in Northampton, Mass., Mr. Scott graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. degree in literature from Harvard College in 1988. He did graduate work in English at Johns Hopkins and left before completing his doctorate.

He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children.