Keynote Address

George Saunders with Jia Tolentino

 

Wednesday, October 18th | 8pm

Join Booker Prize-winning author George Saunders for a conversation on his new, masterful short story collection—one of the New York Times’ Notable Books of the Year. Liberation Day explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans.

With his trademark prose—wickedly funny, unsentimental, and exquisitely tuned—Saunders continues to challenge and surprise. Together, these nine subversive, profound, and essential stories coalesce into a case for viewing the world with the same generosity and clear-eyed attention Saunders does, even in the most absurd of circumstances.

Saunders will be in conversation with the New Yorker’s Jia Tolentino. Tickets are available here.

Featured Book: Liberation Day

Event Details:

  • This is a ticketed event. Every ticket includes a signed copy of the paperback edition of Liberation Day and one general admission seat.

  • This event will take place at the Whitaker Center, located at 222 Market St, Harrisburg, PA 17101.

  • Doors will open at 7:00pm, and the event will begin at 8:00pm. Seating is general admission; first come, first served.

  • There will not be a signing with the author following the program. Signed copies of George Saunders' previous books will be available for sale at the event, as well as Jia Tolentino's book, Trick Mirror.

About the Speakers:

George Saunders is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of eleven books, including A Swim in a Pond in the Rain; Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the Booker Prize; Congratulations, by the way; Tenth of December, a finalist for the National Book Award; The Braindead Megaphone; and the critically acclaimed  CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, Pastoralia, and In Persuasion Nation. He teaches creative writing at Syracuse University.

Jia Tolentino is a staff writer at The New Yorker. Raised in Texas, she studied at the University of Virginia before serving in Kyrgyzstan in the Peace Corps and receiving her MFA in fiction from the University of Michigan. She was a contributing editor at The Hairpin and the deputy editor at Jezebel, and her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Grantland, Pitchfork, and other publications. She lives in Brooklyn.