Bewilderment: Richard Powers in Conversation with Eleanor Wachtel

Richard Powers and Eleanor Wachtel

Bewilderment: Richard Powers in Conversation with Eleanor Wachtel

Richard Powers and Eleanor Wachtel

2:00pm

Saturday, October 23, 2021

Longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize, Richard Powers’s Bewilderment draws you into the intimate relationship of astrobiologist and single father Theo Byrne and his troubled yet loving son, Robin. In an unforgettable live discussion between the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and CBC Writers and Company host Eleanor Wachtel, comes a moving conversation about the cosmos, father-son relationships, and the ways we answer the innocent curiosities of children in the face of a self-destructive world. This event will take place on Zoom. An email with the access link will be sent to registrants within 24 hours of showtime.

This event is generously supported by the Vancouver Writers Fest. Bewilderment has been named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2021 by Newsweek, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, BuzzFeed, Goodreads, New York Magazine and Times of London.

This event is co-presented by the Vancouver Writers Fest. The official bookseller for this event is Indigo.

Bewilderment book cover

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Conversation

Longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize, Richard Powers’s Bewilderment draws you into the intimate relationship of astrobiologist and single father Theo Byrne and his troubled yet loving son, Robin. In an unforgettable live discussion between the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and CBC Writers and Company host Eleanor Wachtel, comes a moving conversation about the cosmos, father-son relationships, and the ways we answer the innocent curiosities of children in the face of a self-destructive world. This event will take place on Zoom. An email with the access link will be sent to registrants within 24 hours of showtime.

This event is generously supported by the Vancouver Writers Fest. Bewilderment has been named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2021 by Newsweek, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, BuzzFeed, Goodreads, New York Magazine and Times of London.

This event is co-presented by the Vancouver Writers Fest. The official bookseller for this event is Indigo.

Bewilderment book cover

Buy from Indigo

Conversation

Featured Authors

Richard Powers
Richard Powers is the author of twelve novels. His most recent, The Overstory, won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and the 2020 American Academy of Arts and Letters' William Dean Howells Medal for the most distinguished American work of fiction published in the last five years, and was a finalist for the Booker Prize. The Overstory has been on the New York Times bestseller list for 63 weeks to date, with more than 1 million copies in print across all formats. Powers is also the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the National Book Award, among other accolades. Richard Powers’ Festival appearance is generously supported by the Vancouver Writers Fest.

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Eleanor Wachtel
Eleanor Wachtel is the cofounder and host of CBC Radio’s Writers & Company, now in its 32nd season. She’s also host and moderator of TIFF’s Books on Film series. Five selections of her conversations have been published, most recently The Best of Writers & Company. She has earned numerous accolades, including nine honorary degrees from universities across Canada and Officer of the Order of Canada.

Read more about Eleanor Wachtel

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Saturday, October 23

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