Wendell Pierce, star of "The Wire" and "Treme" and the author of The Wind in the Reeds (Riverhead, 2015), and talks approximately his work rebuilding the Katrina-damaged Pontchartrain Park neighborhood in New Orleans.→Event: Wendell Pierce will be in conversation with poet and fellow Louisiana native Yusef Komunyakaa at the 92nd Street Y nowadays,October 29, at 8:15pm. See details and tickets here.
Source: wnyc.org