TRUTH OR DARE: ON AUTHENTICITY, RISK, AND THE FUTURE OF FICTION

WHAT FORMS OF ART, activism, and literature can speak authentically now? What risks are still available to writers? Truth or dare (or both)? To celebrate the release of our Summer issue, we'll explore these questions and more with Lauren Oyler, Ed Park, Omari Weekes, and Jo Livingstone, moderated by Bookforum editor Michael Miller.

This event is free and will be hosted on Zoom.

NOTE: This Zoom event can be accessed via the "View the Event" button in your confirmation email as well as in the reminder email, which will be sent on the day of the event. You can also join us from this page, where the meeting link will be accessible at 7pm on June 1st.

PANELISTS:

Jo Livingstone is the recipient of the 2020 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. They are a culture staff writer at the New Republic, and have written for the New York Times, the Times Literary Supplement, Bookforum, and other publications.

Lauren Oyler’s essays and criticism appear regularly in Bookforum, as well as in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the London Review of Books, Harper’s Magazine, and many other publications. Her debut novel, Fake Accounts, was published in February. Photo: Pete Voelker.

Ed Park is the author of the novel Personal Days and is finishing another novel. His fiction has appeared in the New Yorker and elsewhere. His last piece for Bookforum was about Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi. He has been a book editor at Penguin Press and Little A.

Omari Weekes is an assistant professor of English and American ethnic studies at Willamette University. His writing has appeared in Bookforum, n+1, The Point, The Black Scholar, and other publications.

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