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AN EVENING WITH

David Koepp

IN CONVERSATION WITHAndrew Kevin Walker

DISCUSSING HIS DEBUT NOVEL

Cold Storage

September 11, 8pm

William Turner Gallery,

Bergamot Arts Station,

Santa Monica

This event is part of

our Newer Voices

Series featuring

debut authors.

Events in this series

are free, but we

encourage our

patrons to support

debut authors by

purchasing tickets

at $30 which include a copy of the book and two reserved

seats.

David Koepp is a celebrated American screenwriter and

director best known for his work onJurassic Park,Spider-

Man,Panic Room,War of the Worlds, andMission:

Impossible.

For readers of Andy Weir and Noah Hawley comes an

astonishing debut.Cold Storageis a wild and terrifying

adventure about three strangers who must work together

to contain a highly contagious, deadly organism.

When Pentagon bioterror operative Roberto Diaz was

sent to investigate a

suspected biochemical attack,

he found something far

worse: a highly mutative

organism capable of

extinction-level destruction.

He contained it and buried it in cold storage deep beneath

a little-used military repository.

Now, after decades of festering in a forgotten sub-

basement, the specimen has found its way out and is on a

lethal feeding frenzy. Only Diaz knows how to stop it.

He races across the country to help two unwitting

security guards—one an ex-con, the other a single mother.

Over one harrowing night, the unlikely trio must figure out

how to quarantine this horror again. All they have is luck,

fearlessness, and a mordant sense of humor. Will that be

enough to save all of humanity?

“An ultra-flammable combination of science-based

horror, primal nightmare-level terror, and unrelenting

action, cunningly tied together by indelible characters

and a satisfyingly sly, knowing sense of humor.”

—Steven Soderbergh

Andrew Kevin Walker is screenwriter whose credits include

Seven,Sleepy Hollow,BrainscanandNerdland.

AN EVENING WITH

Randall Munroe

IN CONVERSATION WITHKyle Hill

DISCUSSING HIS BOOK

How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for

Common Real-World Problem

September 12, 8pm

Aratani Theatre, Downtown Los Angeles

Randall Munroe is the author of the #1 New York Times

bestsellersWhat If?andThing Explainer, the science

question-and-answer blogWhat If, and the popular

webcomicxkcd. A former NASA roboticist, he left the

agency in 2006 to draw comics on the Internet full-time.

Full of clever info-graphics and amusing illustrations,How

Tois a mind-bending way to better understand the science

and technology underlying the things we do every day.

For any task you might want to do, there’s a right way,

a wrong way, and a way so monumentally complex,

excessive, and inadvisable that no one would ever try it.

How Tois a guide to the third kind of approach. It’s full of

highly impractical advice for everything from landing a

plane to digging a hole.

By exploring the most complicated ways to do simple

tasks, Munroe doesn’t just make things difficult for himself

and his readers. As he did so brilliantly inWhat If?,

Munroe invites us to explore the most absurd reaches of

the possible.

“Munroe’s madness has its method: His solutions tend to

the daft and are definitely outside the box, but figuring

out for yourself how to get something done, whether

changing a light bulb or powering a house, ‘can be fun

and informative and sometimes leads you to surprising

places.’ An enjoyable treat for fans of logic puzzles,

brain hacking, kaizen, mad science, and other forms of

mental stimulation.”—Kirkus Reviews

Kyle Hill is the science editor atNerdist. He uses real-world

math and science concepts to solve, measure, and make

sense of pop culture

quandaries in comics,

video games, movies,

and TV.

AN EVENING WITH

Malcolm Gladwell

DISCUSSING HIS BOOK

Talking to Strangers: What We Should

Know about the People We Don’t Know

IN CONVERSATION WITHBrit Marling

September 16, 8pmSOLD OUT

Robert Frost Auditorium,

Culver City

IN CONVERSATION WITHLarry Wilmore

September 17, 8pm

Fox Performing Arts Center,

Riverside

Malcolm Gladwell is the bestselling

author ofThe Tipping Point,Blink,

Outliers,David and Goliath, and

What the Dog Sawand is host of

the podcastRevisionist History.

He has been a staff writer atThe

New Yorkersince 1996. Gladwell

has been included inTime

magazine’s

100 Most Influential

People list and

touted as one of

Foreign Policy’s Top

Global Thinkers.

Talking to

Strangersis a

classically Gladwell-

ian intellectual

adventure—a

challenging and

controversial

excursion through

history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the

news. Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the

tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don’t

know. And because we don’t know how to talk to strangers,

we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that

have a profound effect on our lives and our world.

“Every few years, journalist Gladwell assembles serious

scientific research on oddball yet relevant subjects and

then writes a bestseller. Readers expecting another

everything-you-think-you-know-is-wrong page-turner

will not be disappointed ... Another Gladwell tour de

force.” —Kirkus

Brit Marling is an actor, writer and producer. Most recently

she was in the return ofThe OAon Netflix. Other credits

includeThe Keeping Room,The Better Angels,I Origins,

The East, andThe Company You Keep.

Larry Wilmore has been a television producer, actor,

comedian, and writer for more than 25 years. He can

currently be heard as host ofLarry Wilmore: Black on the

Airon The Ringer Podcast Network.

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