Kingston Writersfest: International Marquee: Apocalypse Now!

Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - 8:00pm

Grand Theatre, Regina Rosen Auditorium
218 Princess Street
Kingston, ON
K7L 1B2

Kingston Writersfest kicks off its fifth year with the International Marquee: Apocalypse Now!

Margaret Atwood and Nathaniel Rich explore climate-induced catastrophe in brilliantly complex novels of apocalyptic manners, where the survival of nature – and human nature – is up for grabs. MaddAddam is the final installment of Margaret Atwood’s trilogy; Nathaniel Rich’s Odds Against Tomorrow is set in a near-future New York where a mathematician measures worst-case scenarios within a culture obsessed by fear. Do these imagined futures make climate change more real? Or is narrative the last refuge of a civilization taken to the brink by technology run amok? In conversation with Hal Wake.

Presentation of student writing contest awards.
Sponsored by Cunningham Swan, Lawyers

General admission: $30.00
Reserved seating.
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