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HUA HSU is the author of the exquisite memoir Stay True, which won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Memoir and the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography. The Atlantic called it “funny and wise, an elegiac work of self-forgiveness. What a gift it is, Hsu concludes, to remember the people you loved, and who loved you, while you were busy becoming yourself.” Stay True was one of Time’s Must-Read Books of the Year, a New York Times Top 10 Book of the Year, a Publishers Weekly best nonfiction book of the year, and a New Yorker best book of the year. Hua Hsu has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2017 and a contributor since 2014, and is also the author of A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific. Legendary photojournalist LYNSEY ADDARIO will be joining us to talk about her extraordinary and bestselling memoir It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War and her award-winning work in the Ukraine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Lebanon, Darfur, South Sudan, Somalia, Yemen, Syria, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Her relentless pursuit of the truth has shaped her life, and her work, which often focuses on war, refugees, and the plight of women in traditional societies, is breathtaking. Lynsey publishes her images and reporting with The New York Times, National Geographic, and Time, and has been named one of the five most influential photographers of the past 25 years. Last but not least, JOHN VAILLANT will be discussing the climate crisis and his 2023 bestseller Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World, for which he was a finalist for the National Book Award and just won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. In it, John tells sobering and elegantly rendered stories about the 2016 wildfire that swept through Alberta, Canada, destroying half a million acres of land and displacing nearly 100,000 people. It offers a stunning preview of a hotter, drier, more flammable world to come. David Wallace-Wells, author of the bestselling The Uninhabitable Earth, called John’s book “riveting, spellbinding, astounding on every page. John Vaillant is one of the great poetic chroniclers of the natural world, and here he captures the majesty and horror of one of its great disasters—and what made it tragically possible.”
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