Richard Powers with Marlon James: Playground
Schedule
Tue Oct 08 2024 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building | Manhattan, NY
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Powers returns to New York to discuss his latest novel, which intertwines tales of technology, race, friendships, and the environment.Playground is the latest novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory and Bewilderment. Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping panoramic novel that travels from Chicagoland to the California coast to the South Pacific. A celebrated ocean adventurer, an artist, and two childhood friends who bonded over a 3000-year-old board game converge on the history-scarred island of Makatea in French Polynesia, whose deposits of phosphorus once helped to feed the world. Now the tiny atoll has been chosen for humanity’s next adventure: a plan to send floating, autonomous cities out onto the open sea. But first, the island’s residents must vote to greenlight the project or turn the seasteaders away.
Powers speaks with fellow novelist Marlon James.
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Where is it happening?
New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, New York Public Library, 498 5th Ave, New York, NY 10018, United States,New York, New York, ManhattanEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
