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Author Talk: Naomi Alderman on Writing Dystopian Worlds

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2023-11-30 12:00:00 2023-11-30 13:00:00 America/Los_Angeles Author Talk: Naomi Alderman on Writing Dystopian Worlds Naomi Alderman will join us to talk about her new book, The Future. This new novel delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it Virtual Program -

Thursday, November 30
12:00pm - 1:00pm

Add to Calendar 2023-11-30 12:00:00 2023-11-30 13:00:00 America/Los_Angeles Author Talk: Naomi Alderman on Writing Dystopian Worlds Naomi Alderman will join us to talk about her new book, The Future. This new novel delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it Virtual Program -

Naomi Alderman will join us to talk about her new book, The Future. This new novel delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it

About the Author: Naomi Alderman is the bestselling author of The Power, which was the winner of the 2017 Baileys’ Women’s Prize for Fiction. It was longlisted for the 2017 Orwell Prize and chosen as one of the best books of the year by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, NPR, Entertainment Weekly and the San Francisco Chronicle. The Power topped Barack Obama’s list of his favorite books from 2017 and has been translated into more than thirty languages. Naomi grew up in London and attended Oxford University and UEA.

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Lectures & Conversations | Books, Poetry, & Writing |

TAGS: | Author Talk |

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