Moderator: Lindsay Christians
Panelist: Ayad Akhtar
Ayad Akhtar, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright raised in suburban Milwaukee, discusses his latest book, “Homeland Elegies.” A blend of memoir and lyric fiction about post-9/11 America, it ranges from debt and sex to politics, his own family and the complexities of Muslim life in America.
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