THE DEEP READ: Elizabeth Kolbert in Conversation with Ezra Klein

Join us for a live discussion with Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Elizabeth Kolbert and NY Times columnist, podcast host, and UCSC alumnus Ezra Klein. We’ll discuss this year’s Deep Read book, Under a White Sky, which depicts the stark  changes and emerging technologies affecting our climate and world.

 

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Students, staff, faculty, alumni, and the broader community are invited to join the conversation and think deeply with two leading voices working today to explain our complicated times.

 

About the Speakers

Elizabeth Kolbert has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1999. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History—her book about mass extinctions that weaves intellectual and natural history with reporting in the field—won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in the General Nonfiction category and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for the best books of 2014. Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future was a national bestseller and was named one of the best books of the year by the Washington PostTimeEsquireSmithsonian MagazinePublishers WeeklyKirkus Reviews, and Library Journal.

 

Ezra Klein is an Opinion columnist and podcast host at the New York Times. His podcast, The Ezra Klein Show, receives more than a half-million downloads per episode and is routinely in the top 25 podcasts on Apple’s charts. Prior to his work at the Times, Klein founded and launched Vox, the popular explanatory news site. As Vox’s editor-in-chief, and then its editor-at-large, he helped create Explained on Netflix. In 2020, Klein published Why We’re Polarized, a bestselling examination of the forces driving polarization and paralyzing politics in the United States. Klein is a UC Santa Cruz alumnus.

 

About The Deep Read

This event is part of The Humanities Institute’s Deep Read Program that invites curious minds to think deeply about literature, art, and the most pressing issues of our day. We read books from a wide range of genres, exploring their implications on our politics, inner lives, and communities.

 

The Deep Read Program is made possible through the generous support of the Helen and Will Webster Foundation.

Sunday, May 21, 2023 at 4:00pm to 5:30pm

Quarry Amphitheater

Website

https://thi.ucsc.edu/deepread/

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