Saturday, September 19th • 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT
Ayad Akhtar
in conversation with Amitava Kumar
Conversations with Authors is our free virtual event series! Join us throughout the week at 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT for a new chat with a different author.
Thank you for joining me and Amitava Kumar for our discussion of Homeland Elegies. Book Passage is such an amazing institution in our national literary life, and it was a real honor for me to be able to share some of the thinking behind my new book with you all.
Book suggestions are always subjective. What you'd recommend to one person you might not to another. So here's a list of books I'm reading and loving:
My conversation partner's most recent book is amazing. President Obama loved it too:
A book that's coming out next month that I'm excited about:
Stay safe fellow book-loving friends!
—Ayad Akhtar
Below, please find links to purchase their books, as well as Ayad's recommended titles.