Author Colm Tóibín will be in conversation with German author and journalist Malte Herwig. The lecture is part of a series focused on the literature of ethics and sanctuary, celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Alan Cheuse International Writers Center.
This lecture, celebrating 10 years of the Cheuse Center, is part of a specially curated series of events around ideas of a literature of ethics and sanctuary. The event will highlight Colm Tóibín’s 2022 novel The Magician, a fictional biography of Thomas Mann, following his escape from Germany to America through the efforts of Washington Post publisher Agnes Meyer. Tóibín explores stories of refuge and the unlikely forces that keep ideas alive across borders; he reflects on exile, identity, and what it means to seek, and create, refuge through literature.
When: Thursday, April 23 | 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Program Overview:
6:30 PM – Doors open
7:00 PM – Lecture: “Stories of Sanctuary” (40 minutes)
7:45 PM – Conversation and Q&A with Malte Herwig
8:30 PM – Book signing and pop-up exhibition, The Travel Door Project, by artist Steven Luu