Gramercy Books talk featuring Matthew Desmond

Wednesday, April 19, 2023 | 7 p.m.
Location

Columbus College of Art & Design
Canzani Auditorium
60 Cleveland Ave.
Columbus, OH 43215
United States

 

Gramercy Books presents an exclusive central Ohio evening on Wednesday, April 19, at 7 p.m. with Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of Evicted, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond, for the Columbus launch of his latest book, Poverty, by America (Crown, to be released March 21, 2023). Reimagining the debate on poverty, Desmond’s book makes a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America. Poverty, by America was named by TIME as one of the most anticipated books of 2023.

Desmond will be in conversation with Ann Fisher, executive producer and host of All Sides with Ann Fisher on WOSU 89.7 NPR News.

Tickets are $30 and include a copy of Desmond’s book, are available on Eventbrite. Complimentary tickets can be reserved, pending availability, for those for whom price is a barrier by calling Gramercy Books at 614.867.5515.

Columbus College of Art & Design, United Way of Central Ohio, WOSU Public Media, and YWCA Columbus are Gramercy Books Community Partners for this exclusive Columbus book launch appearance.

Poverty, by America has been called “essential and instructive, hopeful and enraging,” and a road map for how we can work together to build a better country. Matthew Desmond is the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University and the founding director of the Eviction Lab. His last book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, among others. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, Desmond is also a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine.

Ann Fisher is the host and executive producer of All Sides with Ann Fisher. She joined WOSU Public Media in 2009 after nearly thirty years in the newspaper business, covering politics, public affairs, culture, media, and business over the course of her career at The Grand Rapids Press, The Blade in Toledo, and The Columbus Dispatch. A native of Michigan, Ann earned a B.S. in Journalism at Michigan State University.