Hernan Diaz & Trust

June 23, 2023

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Question?

What do capitalism, the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, and occultist painters have in common: this summer, we explore the subjects through our favorite fiction authors in this three-part series. 

June 23, 6 pm: At once an immersive story and a brilliant literary puzzle, Hernan Diaz in Trust, winner of a 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, engages the reader in a quest for the truth while confronting the deceptions that often live at the heart of personal relationships, the reality-warping force of capital, and the ease with which power can manipulate facts.

July 21, 6 pm: Mariah Fredericks's The Lindbergh Nanny is a powerful, propulsive novel about America’s most notorious kidnapping through the eyes of the woman who found herself at the heart of this deadly crime.

August 18, 6 pm: In Claire McMillan’s Alchemy of a Blackbird, she reimagines the dynamic female friendship that became an artistic collaboration between two giants of the art world and their mutual muse, the Tarot.

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Tickets
  • Pre-registration is recommended as seating is limited.
  • $15 Members, $20 General Admission; Free for graduate, undergraduate students & children 18 and under.
  • The lecture is in the Stable auditorium.
  • A book signing and refreshments follow the talk.

Biography

Hernan Diaz is the author of two novels translated into more than thirty languages. His first novel, In the Distance, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. His second novel, Trust, was a New York Times Bestseller, a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the winner of the Kirkus Prize, and longlisted for the Booker Prize, among other nominations. It was named one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, and Time magazine, and it was one of The New Yorker’s 12 Essential Reads of the Year. One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2022, Trust is currently being developed as a limited series for HBO. Diaz’s work has appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, The Atlantic, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. He has received the John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, and a fellowship from the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.