{"id":1369,"date":"2015-09-08T08:54:05","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T13:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/?p=1369"},"modified":"2015-09-08T13:14:12","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T18:14:12","slug":"1369","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/1369\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Reading Author to Speak at President’s Convocation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Author and TV writer and producer Kevin Roose<\/a> will speak Sept. 9 at the President\u2019s Convocation at Illinois Wesleyan University. Roose is the author of The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner\u2019s Semester at America\u2019s Holiest University<\/i> <\/a>, which was selected for the University\u2019s Summer Reading Program.<\/p>\n

\"speaker-roose-kevin\"<\/a>Roose was a self-described fairly typical Brown University student who \u201cstudied English lit, drank fair-trade coffee, attended the occasional anti-war protest, and sang in an a cappella group\u201d before he became fascinated with Liberty University, a Christian liberal arts college founded by the late Rev. Jerry Falwell. Roose wanted to know more about his Christian peers, so in his junior year he transferred to Liberty to live among fellow students while pretending to be one of them. The Unlikely Disciple<\/i> (Grand Central Publishing, 2009) is the story of that semester.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe setup for this book sounds like a joke\u2026But Kevin Roose, a strong and thoughtful writer, pulls it off without caricatures or condescension, and with a whole lot of humor and soul-searching,\u201d according to a review in The Minneapolis Star-Tribune<\/i>. The Unlikely Disciple<\/i> also received praise from numerous news outlets, including Jewish Week<\/i>, ChristianityToday.com<\/i>, and The Paris Review<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Roose is also the author of Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall<\/i> Street\u2019s Post-Crash Recruits<\/i>, a 2014 New York Times<\/i> bestseller looking at the lives of eight young Wall Street bankers. He has written for GQ, Esquire<\/i>, the New York Times<\/i>, and New York<\/i> magazine, among others. He is currently a senior editor and co-executive producer at Fusion, the joint venture between Univision and Disney\/ABC.<\/p>\n

The President\u2019s Convocation, which begins at 11 a.m. in Presser Hall\u2019s Westbrook Auditorium (1210 N. Park St., Bloomington), traditionally opens the academic year at Illinois Wesleyan with a prominent speaker. Roose\u2019s address is free and open to the public. Roose will sign copies of The Unlikely Disciple<\/i> at 1 p.m. Sept. 9 in the Young Main Lounge of the Memorial Center (104 E. University).<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on the IWU News & Events page<\/a> – Aug. 26, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Author and TV writer and producer Kevin Roose will speak Sept. 9 at the President\u2019s Convocation at Illinois Wesleyan University. Roose is the author of The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner\u2019s Semester at America\u2019s Holiest University , which was selected for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":500,"featured_media":1370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-facultystaff","category-students"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2015\/09\/speaker-roose-kevin.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/500"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1369"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1373,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions\/1373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}