Join us for an afternoon with Pulitzer Pri ze finalist and PEN/Faulkner Award winner Hernan Diaz\, author of In the D istance and Trust. Diaz holds a Ph.D. from NYU and edits\, the Spanish-lan guage journal Revista Hispá\;nica Moderna\, at Columbia University.< /p>\n
Diaz&rsquo\;s new book\, Trust\, is set during the roar of the 192 0s around the Wall Street tycoon Benjamin Rask and his wife\, Helen. Toget her\, they have risen to the top of the world of seemingly endless wealth& ndash\;all as a decade of excess and speculation draws to an end. But at w hat cost have they acquired their immense fortune? This is the mystery at the center of Bonds\, a successful 1937 novel that all of New York seems t o have read. Yet there are other versions of this tale of privilege and de ceit.
\nHernan Diaz&rsquo\;s Trust elegantly puts these competing na rratives into conversation with one another&mdash\;and in tension with the perspective of one woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction. The res ult is a novel that spans over a century and becomes more exhilarating wit h each new revelation.
\nAbout the author: Hernan Diaz is the author of two novels translated into more than twenty languages. His first novel \, In the Distance\, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Fau lkner Award. He has also written a book of essays\, and his work has appea red in The Paris Review\, Granta\, Playboy\, The Yale Review\, McSweeney&r squo\;s\, and elsewhere. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Whiti ng Award\, the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing\, and a fel lowship from the New York Public Library&rsquo\;s Cullman Center for Schol ars and Writers.
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