TomorrowTalks with Percival Everett: The Trees

Join us as Arizona State University welcomes Booker Prize finalist Percival Everett for its TomorrowTalks series. Everett will discuss his novels "The Trees" (2021) and "Dr. No" (2022) in an online event on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022 at 6 p.m. Arizona / MST (6 p.m. PDT / 7 p.m. MDT / 8 p.m. CDT / 9 p.m. EDT). The conversation will be facilitated by ASU literary scholar Ayanna Thompson, a Regents Professor of English and founding director of the RaceB4Race Initiative in the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

All are welcome; registration is required.

Percival Everett is the highly acclaimed author of more than thirty novels and story collections. Provocative and page-turning, his 2022 Booker Prize finalist novel "The Trees" takes direct aim at racism, police violence, and the painful legacy of lynching in the United States. His most recent book, "Dr. No," is a caper with teeth, a wildly mischievous novel.

TomorrowTalks place thought leaders of today in conversation with the changemakers of tomorrow: our students. Each distinguished speaker explains how they use writing to address our most pressing challenges. This year, the series talks with trailblazers; in addition to Everett, speakers include Jonathan Franzen (Oct. 5), Jocelyn Nicole Johnson (Oct. 13), and Jemele Hill (Jan. 26). TomorrowTalks are a student-engagement initiative led by the Division of Humanities in The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at ASU and hosted by ASU's Department of English in partnership with Macmillan Publishers.