Tree Talks
Forests of Our Imagination—A Conversation with Barbara Kingsolver and Richard Powers
Studio K
REACH to FOREST’s Tree Talks, curated by author Marie Arana, celebrate literary giants that illuminate the beauty and wonder of the forest. Two great American novelists, Barbara Kingsolver and Richard Powers, discuss their passion for trees.
Sun. Feb. 25, 2024
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Sun. Feb. 25, 2024 6p.m.
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Genre
Discussion/Spoken Word
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Price
Free Tickets Required
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Part of Series
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Ticket Limit
6
Program
Forests of Our Imagination—A Conversation with Barbara Kingsolver and Richard Powers
REACH to FOREST’s Tree Talks, curated by author Marie Arana, celebrate literary giants that illuminate the beauty and wonder of the forest. Two great American novelists, Barbara Kingsolver and Richard Powers, discuss their passion for trees.
Authors
Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver is a novelist, essayist, and poet. She is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Demon Copperhead, a contemporary re-telling of David Copperfield set in Appalachia at the onset of the opioid epidemic. In addition to Demon Copperhead, her bestselling works include Flight Behavior, The Poisonwood Bible, Prodigal Summer, and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. She was awarded the National Humanities Medal, the highest honor given by the U.S. government for service through the arts, as well as the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for the body of her work. Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages, and have been adopted into the core literature curriculum in high schools and colleges throughout the nation. She lives with her family on a farm in southern Appalachia.
Richard Powers
Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning novelist Richard Powers has published thirteen novels and has taught writing at the University of Illinois and Stanford University. He won the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction for The Echo Maker. His novel The Overstory is about nine Americans whose unique life experiences bring them together to address the destruction of the forests.
Marie Arana
Tree Talks curator
Marie Arana is a prizewinning author, literary critic, and media commentator. She is the inaugural Literary Director of the Library of Congress, recipient of a 2020 Literary Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, and former Editor in Chief of The Washington Post Book World. She is also the author of Silver, Sword and Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story; Bolívar: American Liberator; the memoir American Chica; and the novels Cellophane and Lima Nights. Her newest book is LatinoLand, a sweeping portrait of the Hispanic population of this country.
Ticketing & Entry
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