An in-person event, open to the public, no rsvp needed
Please join us for this panel on writing for and engaging broad audiences, which will be moderated by Amy Wilentz and feature Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow and Jeffrey Wasserstrom. The focus will be on the role of interviews with and profiles of individuals in two new books on contemporary issues that were published in the spring: Tuhus-Dubrow's Atomic Dreams: The New Nuclear Evangelists and the Fight for the Future of Energy (Algonquin) and Wasserstrom's The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia's Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing (Columbia Global Reports).
Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow is a local freelance writer. She is a contributor to general interest periodicals such as the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. In addition to Atomic Dreams, she is the author of Personal Stereo, a book published by Bloomsbury in 2017 in its "Object Lessons" series.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom is a Distinguished Professor of History and a co-founder of the Forum for the Academy and the Public. His essays and reviews have appeared in publications such as the Atlantic and the TLS. In addition to The Milk Tea Alliance, his books include Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink, a 2020 work that was also published by Columbia Global Reports.
Amy Wilentz is a Professor Emerita of English and Literary Journalism, a co-founder of the Forum, and a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. She has written for many periodicals, including the New Yorker, the New York Times, and the Nation, for which she is a contributing editor. Her books include Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti, which was published by Simon & Schuster and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for 2013.
This event is sponsored by UCI's Forum for the Academy and the Public and cosponsored by the History Department and the Center for Storytelling.