Bill McKibben
In conversation with Tom Curwen, editor and writer, Los Angeles Times
Join us for a discussion of a powerful and provocative manifesto by the bestselling author of The End of Nature, an impassioned call to arms for an economy that creates community and ennobles our lives.
Co-presented with the Institute of the Environment at UCLA
Bill McKibben is the author of ten books, including The End of Nature, The Age of Missing Information, and Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age. A former staff writer for The New Yorker, he writes regularly for Harper's, the Atlantic Monthly, and the New York Review of Books, among other publications. He is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College and as well, the philosopher-impresario of the program of climate-change rallies called Step it Up.
Tom Curwen is staff writer and editor at the Los Angeles Times. He was editor of the Outdoors section, a writer for the features section and deputy editor of the Book Review. He has been honored by the American Association of Sunday and Features Editors for three pieces he did for Outdoors on caving with nature writer, Barbara Hurd, on Alaskan bush pilots and the annual migration of sand hill cranes to the Bosque del Apache. He has a master's degree in Creative Writing from USC and was a recipient of a 1991 Academy of American Poets prize. In 2002, he received a Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for mental health journalism.
Unless otherwise indicated, ALOUD programs take place at the Los Angeles Central Library's Mark Taper Auditorium, 630 W. Fifth Street, Los Angeles, CA 90071.
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