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05/16/2014 12:00 pm CSA Luncheon: Julia Cooke

  • May 16, 2014
  • 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
  • Pelican Marsh Golf Club, 1810 Persimmon Drive
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“The Other Side of Paradise: Life In The New Cuba”
A Special Presentation by Julia Cooke

The CSA Committee is pleased to present a contemporary look at “Life in The New Cuba”, on Friday, May 16th, at the Pelican Marsh Golf Club, 1810 Persimmon Drive, at 12 noon. This will be a luncheon presentation.

Cuba is changing dramatically in the post-Fidel era, as “younger” brother Raoul is desperately trying to change the nature of the economic system. In 2009, Journalist Julia Cooke had the rare opportunity to move to post-Fidel Castro Havana. In “The Other Side of Paradise: Life in the New Cuba,” Cooke chronicles her experiences through intimate storytelling and in-depth reporting focusing on the last generation of Cubans raised under The Bearded One. Over five years on and off the island, she entrenched herself in contemporary Cuba, gaining access to a Havana populated with twenty-five-year-old Marxist philosophy students, baby-faced anarchists, children of the whiskey-drinking elite, Santería trainees, pregnant prostitutes, and more.

Julia Cooke's writing on Cuba has appeared in the New York Times, Virginia Quarterly Review, Conde Nast Traveller, and various channels of The Atlantic online. She is the recipient of fellowships from The Norman Mailer Center and Columbia University, where she completed her MFA. After living for five years in Mexico City and Havana, she currently lives in New York City, where she teaches writing at The New School. The Other Side of Paradise: Life in the New Cuba is her first book.

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