Books and Bathrobes with Ayad Akhtar
Books & Bathrobes With Ayad Akhtar
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Literary Affairs invites you to an exclusive ONLINE Books & Bathrobes event with New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ayad Akhtar about his novel Home Elegies. Join us on Zoom for a book club style conversation between Julie Robinson and Ayad Akhtar followed by a Q & A.
There are a limited amount of signed books available for purchase for our attendees at Book Soup in West Hollywood. Simply identify yourself with Literary Affairs and they will provide a signed copy to you. If you’d prefer limited contact, you may place your order over the phone for delivery or curbside pickup.
Book Soup
8818 Sunset Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90069
(310) 659-3110
EVENT INFORMATION
WHEN:
Tuesday, October 20
10:30am – 12pm
WHERE:
The safety and comfort of your own home.
DRESS CODE:
Bathrobes or sweats encouraged.
$15 requested to help defray our costs. NO REFUNDS.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ayad Akhtar is a novelist and playwright. His work has been published and performed in over two dozen languages. He is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Ayad is the author of American Dervish (Little, Brown & Co.), published in over 20 languages and named a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012, as well as the forthcoming novel, Homeland Elegies (Little, Brown & Co.) in September 2020. As a playwright, he has written Junk (Lincoln Center, Broadway; Kennedy Prize for American Drama, Tony nomination); Disgraced (Lincoln Center, Broadway; Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony nomination); The Who & The What (Lincoln Center); and The Invisible Hand (NYTW; Obie Award, Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award, Olivier, and Evening Standard nominations). As a screenwriter, he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay for The War Within.
Among other honors, Akhtar is the recipient of the Steinberg Playwrighting Award, the Nestroy Award, the Erwin Piscator Award, as well as fellowships from the American Academy in Rome, MacDowell, the Sundance Institute, and Yaddo, where he serves as a Board Director. Additionally, Ayad is a Board Trustee at PEN/America and New York Theatre Workshop. He lives in New York City.
ABOUT THE BOOK
A deeply personal work about hope and identity in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of belonging and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque adventure — at its heart, it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home.
Akhtar forges a new narrative voice to capture a nation in which debt has ruined countless lives and our ideals have been sacrificed to the gods of finance, where a TV personality is president and immigrants live in fear, and where the unhealed wounds of 9/11 continue to wreak havoc around the world. Akhtar attempts to make sense of it all through the lens of a story about one family, from a heartland town in America to palatial suites in Central Europe to guerilla lookouts in the mountains of Afghanistan, and spares no one — least of all himself — in the process.