Film, Video Dystopian Worlds: National Book Festival 2020
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Title
- Dystopian Worlds: National Book Festival 2020
Summary
- Dark Star trilogy novelist Marlon James, "Black Leopard, Red Wolf" (Riverhead), talks with sci-fi/fantasy author Jeff VanderMeer, "A Peculiar Peril" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). In the first novel in James's Dark Star trilogy, he explores what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing child; VanderMeer's new novel is a head-spinning epic quest revolving around portals to an alternate Earth called Aurora, a surreal world filled with talking animals and vegetables. Moderated by Everdeen Mason of The Washington Post.
Event Date
- September 26, 2020
Running Time
- 33 minutes 53 seconds
Online Format
- video
- image
- online text