Early Word: Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman on Writing for TV

5 Parker Point Road,Blue Hill ME 04614

12 August, 2022

Description

Ayelet Waldman is the author of the memoir, A Really Good Day, as well as of novels including Love and Treasure, Red Hook Road, and Love and Other Impossible Pursuits. She is the editor of Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women's Prisons. Michael Chabon is the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Moonglow and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, among many other titles. Together, Waldman and Chabon edited both Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation and Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases, and with Susannah Grant, they are the creators and writers of Netflix’s award-winning true-crime mini-series Unbelievable, about a series of rapes in Washington state and Colorado. In addition, Chabon is a creator and writer of the Paramount+ series Star Trek: Picard, which has returned Patrick Stewart to the screen as celebrated Enterprise captain Jean-Luc Picard. They'll discuss this collaborative screenwriting work as well as their individual creative processes in conversation with Slate columnist Laura Miller. Co-sponsored with the Blue Hill Public Library. Join us!