How can fiction balance absurdity and tenderness to reveal more profound truths about being human? In this panel, our authors will explore how comedy, melancholy, and the surreal intertwine, capturing the strangeness, beauty, and vulnerability of life.
| Where: | Koffler Room 218 (Seats 142, Wheelchair accessible)    |
| When: | Sun, Mar 15, 4:00 pm - 4:55 pm |
| Signing area: | Sales & Signing Koffler/Commons (following presentation) |
| Genre: | Fiction / Literature |
| Moderator: | Alisa Alering |
Jade Chang’s debut novel, "The Wangs vs. the World," won the VCU-Cabell First Novelist Award and has been published in a dozen countries. Her journalism and essays have recently appeared in The Best American Food Writing, and in The New York Times and Los Angeles Times....
Tucsonan Mike Powell has written essays and features for The New York Times Magazine, The Ringer, The Paris Review, Oxford American, and dozens of other publications on subjects ranging from the joys of dishwashing to the state of Hollywood stuntwork in the era of motion-capture animation....
Joshua Wheeler is the author of the essay collection "Acid West," which was named a best book of 2018 by Newsweek, The Paris Review, and O, The Oprah Magazine. He’s written for The New York Times, Alta, and Harper’s Magazine....
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