Writing With Sound • An Evening with Sarah Larson

Sarah Larson has contributed to the New Yorker since 2007, during which time she's written omnivorously about culture, politics, and the horrors and wonders of being alive and conscious in the United States of America.

In just the past six months, she has written sensitive and searching profiles of figures as diverse as the filmmaker Mike Leigh, the vacuum magnate James Dyson (progenitor of the Dyson Airblade, for you hand-dryer wonks out there!), first Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, and public radio legend Ira Glass, creator of This American Life.

Over the past decade, Larson has also established herself as one of the few working "podcast critics" out there, having been one of the first writers to take the podcast seriously as a medium, with its own distinctive potentialities, formal qualities, and artistic lineage. Come hear Larson speak about the challenges and rewards of building a critical vocabulary from scratch, her sense of where the medium is headed, and her view from behind the scenes at the magazine that launched a million tote bags.

- No ticket required

- Monroe Hill House at Brown College, UVA (Google Maps info here)

- Parking at UVA Central Grounds Garage