Laird Hunt & Colson Whitehead (2017 Event)

A TOUR OF AMERICA RACE IN AMERICA



Two of the finest writers working in America today take a tour around the dark history of their country. Paul Auster called Laird Hunt's last novel Neverhome 'magnificent'; The Evening Road is his latest, which he discusses today, and it's a novel 'as audacious as it is lyrical'. Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad has already won him the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Award and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in fiction - join him to find out why. Chaired by Jenny Niven.