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A Conversation with Brian Goldstone
Author of There is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America.
Date: Thursday, February 12, 2026
Time: 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Location: PAIS 290
Registration: https://tinyurl.com/lingregister
Download event flyerJoin us for an engaging discussion covering:
- Atlanta's working homeless
- Inequality in America
- Journalism, narrative & storytelling
- Ethnography
- Language
Book signing and Reception to follow!
Hosted by the Emory Program in Linguistics, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Global Development Studies Program, Institute for the Liberal Arts, Hightower Fund, and Writing Across Emory.
Brian Goldstone is a journalist and the author of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America, a finalist for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and named one of the 10 Best Books of 2025 by The New York Times and The Atlantic. His longform reporting and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, The New Republic, The California Sunday Magazine, and Jacobin, among other publications. He received his PhD in cultural anthropology from Duke University and was a Mellon Research Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University. He lives in Atlanta with his family.