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An Evening with Richard Powers

October 23 @ 8:00 pm - 9:15 pm

An Evening with Richard Powers discussing the writing life and his new novel, “Playground.”

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— Tickets are non refundable and are not transferable.

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Join us for an in-person and virtual* Live Talks Los Angeles event:

Wednesday, October 23, 2024, 8:00pm

*Virtual event airs on Oct 28 at 6pm PT/9pm ET

An Evening with Richard Powers

discussing the writing life and his new novel, Playground.

TICKETS:

  • $50 Reserved Section Seat + book with signed book plate
  • $25 General Admisison ticket
  • Additional books available for purchase at event
  • Face masks recommended

A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of The Overstoryand Bewilderment.

Richard Powers is the author of fourteen novels, including The Overstory, Bewilderment, and Orfeo. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Award. He lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.

“A characterful, capacious and engaging novel, distilling subjects as diverse as oceanography, climate change, the legacies of colonialism and the arc of a lifelong friendship into an exhilaratingly entangled narrative in which Powers’ unparalleled gifts for revealing the magic and mystery of the natural world are on full display.”― The 2024 Booker Prize Judges

Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world’s first aqualungs. Ina Aroita grows up on naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home. Two polar opposites at an elite Chicago high school bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game; Rafi Young will get lost in literature, while Todd Keane’s work will lead to a startling AI breakthrough.

They meet 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.

Set in the world’s largest ocean, this awe-filled book explores that last wild place we have yet to colonize in a still-unfolding oceanic game, and interweaves beautiful writing, rich characterization, profound themes of technology and the environment, and a deep exploration of our shared humanity in a way only Richard Powers can.

Details

Date:
October 23
Time:
8:00 pm - 9:15 pm
Event Category:
Website:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-richard-powers-tickets-1021713331077

Venue

Ann and Jerry Moss Theatre at New Roads School
3131 Olympic Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90404 United States

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