Jesmyn Ward and Ta-Nehisi Coates: In Conversation Tuesday, October 24 at 7PM at The Town Hall
Celebrating the release of Ward’s new novel, Let Us Descend; Co-Presented by The Town Hall and The Center for Fiction; Tickets Start at $35 and include a hardback copy of Let Us Descend
Two of America’s most beloved authors, Jesmyn Ward and Ta-Nehisi Coates, celebrate the release of Ward’s new novel, Let Us Descend.
Author and academic Jesmyn Ward (Salvage the Bones; Sing, Unburied, Sing) is a two-time National Book Award winner, the youngest ever holder of the Library of Congress Prize for Fiction, a member of the Time 100 Most Influential People in the World, and an awardee of the prestigious MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship. The October 24th publication of Let Us Descend, Ward’s fourth novel and her first in over six years, is cause for jubilation within the literary community. Who better to celebrate this release than Ward’s fellow MacArthur genius, the famed writer, journalist and essayist Ta-Nehisi Coates (Between the World and Me, The Water Dancer). Friends since 2019, these contemporaries share a bond as two of Black America’s most critically beloved authors. Don’t miss literary history as it is written at this public conversation between Ward and Coates on the Town Hall stage.
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