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Friday, October 9
 

7:00pm PDT

Hernan Diaz: Ply
Friday October 9, 2026 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT
BATS Improv Theatre
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$15 gen admission / $40 with signed book

Centuries from now, at the dawn of a historical epoch filled with both uncertainty and promise, an orphan is adrift in a city on the brink of a great transformation...After rewriting America’s past with his two previous novels, Pulitzer Prize winner Hernan Diaz defies expectations with his third and turns to the future with a novel that examines the place of technology in the American imagination. Combining Dickensian odyssey, family drama, and scientific thriller, Ply poignantly charts the tenuous boundaries of selfhood and the distance that inevitably stands between us and those we love. In conversation with Pulitzer Prize–winning science writer and friend Ed Yong. Doors at 6:30pm.
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Ed Yong

Ed Yong is the author of two prize-winning New York Times bestsellers, An Immense World and I Contain Multitudes. He won a Pulitzer Prize among other awards for his coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic. He has been a TED speaker, a Best American Science and Nature editor, and a Gugg... Read More →
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Hernan Diaz is the Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of four books published in thirty-seven languages. He is the recipient of the John Updike award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, given to “a writer whose contributions to American liter... Read More →
Friday October 9, 2026 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT
BATS Improv Theatre
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