This event took place on August 31, 2022.
Controversial novelist and commentator Lionel Shriver in conversation with Benjamin Teitelbaum, will discuss her first nonfiction book, the hot-off-the-presses 鈥�Abominations: Selected essays from a career of courting self-destruction.鈥澨� Shriver was one of the earliest critics of identity politics, that constellation of prescriptive opinions we now call "woke."听 She has been subjected to three concerted pile-ons, after which she has mysteriously got up, dusted herself off, and carried on saying the ostensibly unsayable.听Shriver has even dared discouraging words about immigration, affirmative action, and 鈥� perhaps her most outrageous stance 鈥� punitive taxation of the well-off. Part of the Benson Center's Media Bias series.
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A prolific journalist with a fortnightly column in Britain鈥檚 The Spectator, Lionel Shriver has written widely for The New York Times, the Guardian, the London Times, Prospect, the Financial Times, 贬补谤辫别谤鈥檚 Magazine, and many other publications.听 Her 贬补谤辫别谤鈥檚 piece 鈥淪emantic Drift鈥� appears in 鈥淏est American Essays of 2020.鈥澨� Her first nonfiction book, 鈥淎bominations: Selected essays from a career of courting self-destruction,鈥澨� will be published in September 2022.听 As a fiction writer, she has published one story/novella collection and fourteen novels, including the bestsellers 鈥淭he Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047,鈥� 鈥淏ig Brother, So Much for That,鈥� 鈥淭he Post-Birthday World,鈥� and the Orange Prize for Fiction winner 鈥淲e Need to Talk 蜜糖直播 Kevin鈥� (a 2011 feature film starring Tilda Swinton).听 She won the 2014 BBC National Short Story Award.听 Her most recent novel is 鈥淪hould We Stay or Should We Go鈥� (2021). Her work has been translated into over 30 languages.
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