An Evening with John Green- Everything is Tuberculosis
Schedule
Sat, 22 Mar, 2025 at 07:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
The Englert Theatre | Iowa City, IA
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Tickets available at The Englert Theatre Box Office https://englert.org/events/an-evening-with-john-green/
Prairie Lights is pleased to present John Green, who will talk about his new nonfiction work, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection. He will be joined in conversation by Kaveh Akbar. Each ticket ($38 plus fees) includes one pre-signed copy of Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green. Ticketholders' complimentary book may be picked up at the event.
John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease.
Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is seen as a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it.
In 2019, author John Green met Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, preventable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing over a million people every year.
In Everything Is Tuberculosis, John tells Henry’s story, woven through with the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world—and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis.
About John Green
John Green is the award-winning, #1 bestselling author of books including Looking for Alaska, The Fault in Our Stars, Turtles All the Way Down, and The Anthropocene Reviewed. With his brother, Hank, John has co-created many online video projects, including Vlogbrothers and the educational channel Crash Course. John serves on the board of trustees for the global health nonprofit Partners In Health and spoke at the United Nations High-Level Meeting on the Fight to End Tuberculosis. John lives with his family in Indianapolis. You can visit him online at johngreenbooks.com or join the TB Fighters working to end tuberculosis at tbfighters.org.
About Kaveh Akbar
Kaveh Akbar is the author of the New York Times Best-selling novel, Martyr!, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Kaveh Akbar’s poems appear in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. He is the author of two poetry collections: Pilgrim Bell and Calling a Wolf a Wolf, in addition to a chapbook, Portrait of the Alcoholic. He is also the editor of The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 110 Poets on the Divine. He lives in Iowa City.
There will not be a public signing. There will be an opportunity for attendees to submit a question for the author at the beginning of the event.
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Where is it happening?
The Englert Theatre, 221 E Washington St,Iowa City, Iowa, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
