Zachary Wood Uncensored

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Zachary Wood, author of Uncensored: My Life And Uncomfortable Conversations At The Intersection of Black And White, released just least month by Dutton. Zachary’s primary goal in this book, in addition to telling us his life story in memoir form, is to encourage uncomfortable conversations. He graduated from (just this year) Williams College where he served as President of Uncomfortable Learning, a student group that has from time to time created nation controversies for inviting provocative speakers to campus from John Derbyshire to Charles Murray. Zachary has defended this conversations and the upshot from them to the point where he offered Senate testimony this past Summer.His writings, as young as he is, have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post and many others.He is an assistant editor at The Atlantic and a Robert. L. Bartley Fellow at the WSJ.Zach’s path is a convoluted one in which uncomfortable conversations have been a hallmark. Both in his family and now academically.