TIFA Presents: Courtroom Classics with Scott Turow

Scott Turow and Timothy Taylor

TIFA Presents: Courtroom Classics with Scott Turow

Scott Turow and Timothy Taylor

7:00pm

Thursday, March 11, 2021

45 mins

Wind down for the evening with legal thriller master Scott Turow, in conversation with novelist Timothy Taylor. Turow, the bestselling author of Presumed Innocent, will share insight on his latest legal drama, The Last Trial, and the return of his celebrated character, defence attorney Alejandro “Sandy” Stern, in a central role. For his final Kindle County courtroom case, Stern navigates a complex and highly technical trial that forces him to confront his own judgments and failings. Turow weaves a story of expert twists and entertainment, while illuminating the human side of truth and justice.

Interviewer: Timothy Taylor

 

Turow, Scott - The Last Trial At eighty-five years old, Alejandro “Sandy” Stern, a brilliant defense lawyer with his health failing but spirit intact, is on the brink of retirement. But when his old friend Dr. Kiril Pafko, a former Nobel Prize winner in Medicine, is faced with charges of insider trading, fraud, and murder, his entire life’s work is put in jeopardy, and Stern decides to take on one last trial. In a case that will be the defining coda to both men’s accomplished lives, Stern probes beneath the surface of his friend’s dazzling veneer as a distinguished cancer researcher. As the trial progresses, he will question everything he thought he knew about his friend.

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Wind down for the evening with legal thriller master Scott Turow, in conversation with novelist Timothy Taylor. Turow, the bestselling author of Presumed Innocent, will share insight on his latest legal drama, The Last Trial, and the return of his celebrated character, defence attorney Alejandro “Sandy” Stern, in a central role. For his final Kindle County courtroom case, Stern navigates a complex and highly technical trial that forces him to confront his own judgments and failings. Turow weaves a story of expert twists and entertainment, while illuminating the human side of truth and justice.

Interviewer: Timothy Taylor

 

Turow, Scott - The Last Trial At eighty-five years old, Alejandro “Sandy” Stern, a brilliant defense lawyer with his health failing but spirit intact, is on the brink of retirement. But when his old friend Dr. Kiril Pafko, a former Nobel Prize winner in Medicine, is faced with charges of insider trading, fraud, and murder, his entire life’s work is put in jeopardy, and Stern decides to take on one last trial. In a case that will be the defining coda to both men’s accomplished lives, Stern probes beneath the surface of his friend’s dazzling veneer as a distinguished cancer researcher. As the trial progresses, he will question everything he thought he knew about his friend.

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Featured Authors

Scott Turow is the author of many bestselling works of fiction, including The Last Trial, Testimony, Identical, Innocent, Presumed Innocent, and The Burden of Proof, and two nonfiction books, including One L, about his experience as a law student. His books have been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, and have been adapted into movies and television projects. He has frequently contributed essays and op-ed pieces to publications such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic.

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Timothy Taylor is a best-selling and award-winning novelist and journalist. He’s written nine books including his novels Stanley Park and The Blue Light Project, as well as nonfiction titles such as Foodville and The Cranky Connoisseur. His latest work is the auto-fictional novel The Rise and Fall of Magic Wolf which returns Taylor to the world of commercial kitchens and the cooks who work in them. Taylor is a professor with the UBC School of Creative Writing. He lives in Vancouver.

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7:00pm

Thursday, March 11

45 mins

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