Dan Barry’s This Land: America, Lost and Found: A Conversation with Colum McCann

“Dan Barry gives dignity even to the darkest corners of the American experience. He is the closest thing we have to a contemporary Steinbeck.” – Colum McCann

In this special one-night only free event, journalist Dan Barry discusses his new book, This Land: America, Lost and Found, with acclaimed Irish author Colum McCann.
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina and on the eve of a national recession, New York Times writer Dan Barry launched a column about America – not the one populated only by cable-news pundits, but the America defined and redefined by those who clean the hotel rooms, tend the beet fields, endure disasters both natural and manmade. For more than a decade, Barry crisscrossed the country, filing deeply moving stories from the tiniest dot on the American map to the city that calls itself the Capital of the World.

In This Land: America, Lost and Found (Black Dog & Leventhal; September 11, 2018), Barry selects nearly 100 essays from a decade of his distinctive This Land columns that explore uniquely American moments from every corner of our country.

Copies of This Land: America, Lost and Found will be available for purchase in the Irish Rep lobby. Dan Barry will be signing books immediately following this discussion.