Professors Bartlett and Holloway discuss "The Help" at Durham's Regulator Bookshop

January 21, 2010 • 7:00 PM • See description

Join us for a provocative discussion of the recent novel, "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett, led by Karla Holloway and Katharine Bartlett. On the NYT bestseller list since August, "The Help", a novel about the relationships between African-American maids and their white employers in 1960s Mississippi, "has the classic elements of a crowd pleaser: it features several feisty women enmeshed in a page-turning plot, clear villains and a bit of history," writes the New York Times. Holloway is the James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke, and holds appointments in the Law School, Women's Studies, and African American Studies. Bartlett, the A. Kenneth Pye Professor of Law, is the former Dean of the Duke Law School. This event is co-sponsored with the Durham County Library. For more information, contact The Regulator Bookshop at (919) 286-2700 or mail@regbook.com.