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June 7, 2022
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Hazards of Reality
What if Airless Spaces, and the life of its author, cannot be read as a story at all?
Crushing Banalities
2018, Germany. A bungalow, with anthracite walls and a flat roof. Jerome Daimler’s parents purchased it. They’re divorced now. He lives there alone.
Rightful Trespass
If a writer is necessarily constrained by the limits of his own subjectivity, they expand that subjectivity at the source: they write with two heads…
More than twenty years after 9/11, the Global War on Terror is now the longest military campaign in American history, dragging on even after last year’s withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. How can writers help us make sense of it? In a conflict this sprawling—one that has remained a distant and remote reality for many Americans—what role should literature play in depicting and redefining the war? Join us on June 7th for a conversation with Peter C. Baker (author of the debut novel Planes, excerpted in issue 26) and Phil Klay (author of the essay “False Witnesses” in issue 27 and the essay collection Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War) about these questions, their new books and more.
Moderated by Joseph M. Keegin and co-sponsored by the Seminary Co-op.
Online | Tuesday, June 7th
7 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. CT
Register using the form below to receive the Zoom link and bring your questions and thoughts for the open Q&A!