Outriders: Jennifer Haigh & Malachy Tallack (2017 Event)

USA: FROM NORTH DAKOTA TO NEW ORLEANS



As part of our project to explore the Americas, Boston novelist Jennifer Haigh travelled with Scottish writer Malachy Tallack on a journey that took in the Midwestern heartlands of Donald Trump’s USA. Starting in Fargo, they visited the site of the Dakota Pipeline protests before travelling south through Tennessee and Mississippi and arriving in Louisiana. Along the way, they met the reclusive writer Wendell Berry and members of the Black Lives Matter movement. Today they share some of their unforgettable experiences, and some of the writing inspired by the journey.



Part of our Outriders series of events.