Once Upon A Disappearance

Join Jennifer Croft, Laura van den Berg, and Jáchym Topol in a discussion about disappearances through different lenses—individual, environmental, and psychological. In The Extinction of Irena Rey, eight translators gather at a sprawling house in the ancient woods of Poland, prepared to translate beloved author Irena Rey’s latest work—unprepared to reckon with her sudden disappearance and the rivalries, desires, and isolation it unearths. In State of Paradise, a ghostwriter living in a pandemic-ravaged Florida town must contend with her missing sister, rising temperatures, otherworldly storms, cults, and world-altering virtual reality devices. In A Sensitive Person (trans. Alex Zucker), an itinerant Czech actor’s disappearance and reappearance cause a chaotic chain of events in his family and community. Don’t miss an engrossing conversation about what it means to disappear and how disappearance affects those who remain. Moderated by Katie Yee, author of the upcoming novel Maggie; Or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar