Originally broadcast at 3:30 p.m. EDT Thursday, July 23, 2020.
A timely, uncanny portrait of a world in the wake of fake news, diminished privacy, and a total shutdown of the Internet.
Tim Maughan is an author and journalist using both fiction and non-fiction to explore issues around cities, class, culture, technology, and the future. His work regularly appears on the BBC, New Scientist, and Vice/Motherboard. His debut novel, Infinite Detail, was selected by The Guardian as their Science Fiction and Fantasy book of the year for 2019.
About Chautauqua Institution: Chautauqua Institution is a community on the shores of Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York state that comes alive each summer with a unique mix of fine and performing arts, lectures, interfaith worship and programs, and recreational activities. As a community, we celebrate, encourage and study the arts and treat them as integral to all of learning, and we convene the critical conversations of the day to advance understanding through civil dialogue. CHQ Assembly is the online expression of Chautauqua Institution's mission.
Up Next in 2020 Programs
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CLSC: ‘The End of Ice’
Originally broadcast at 3:30 p.m. EDT Thursday, July 2, 2020.
In The End of Ice, we follow Dahr Jamail as he scales Denali, the highest peak in North America, dives in the warm crystal waters of the Pacific only to find ghostly coral reefs, and explores the tundra of St. Paul Island, where he me...
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CLSC: 'The Source of Self-Regard'
Originally broadcast at 3:30 p.m. EDT Thursday, July 16, 2020.
John Hoppenthaler presents Toni Morrison's The Source of Self-Regard.
The Source of Self-Regard, released in February 2019, was Morrison’s final published work as she died in August 2019. Morrison was an American novelist, essayist...
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CLSC: "In the Country of Women"
Originally broadcast at 3:30 p.m. EDT Thursday, July 30, 2020.
Susan Straight details her book "In The Country of Women," which features a personal narrative that reads like a love song to America and indomitable women.
Straight has published eight novels. She was a finalist for the National B...
