Writers Center Stage presents: Rachel Kushner & Piper Kerman
When: Wed., Oct. 16, 7:30-9 p.m. 2019
Rachel Kushner is the best-selling author of The Flamethrowers, a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times Top Ten Book of 2013; Telex from Cuba (2008), a finalist for the National Book Award; and The Mars Room (2018), which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
Piper Kerman got mixed up in a drug trafficking and money laundering operation. Kerman was later sentenced to 15 months in prison. Her experiences behind bars inspired the 2010 best-selling memoir Orange Is the New Black, which was later turned into an Emmy Award-winning Netflix series of the same name.