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Between Dystopias: Marlon James and Hafizah Augustus Geter Live at Deep Water Lit Fest 23


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Each year  Deep Water Literary Festival in Narrowsburg, NY, identifies a unifying theme, often a particular literary work or an author, and builds a program to engage and interrogate the ways in which the theme resonates for contemporary audiences. In 2023 the festival explored the work of British novelist and journalist George Orwell. In this conversation the award-winning novelist, Marlon James, author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf and A Brief History of Seven Killings, and the poet and memoirist Hafizah Augustus Geter, author of The Black Period, parse the meaning and dynamics of dystopia, both literary and real-world. At a time when our lived reality feels like it's teetering on the edge of catastrophe, how does dystopian, apocalyptic, and speculative fiction speak to the world we live in, or help us to imagine alternatives. Find more information about the festival here. For Marlon James ten favorite books, head to One Grand Books here.

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