January 29, 2019, Tuesday - Talk of the Stacks with Matthew Desmond at Central Library

Time: Doors open at 6:15 p.m. for general admission seating. The program begins at 7 p.m.

Location: Central Library, Pohlad Hall, 300 Nicollet Mall

Talk of the Stacks with Matthew Desmond

Join us for an evening of conversation with Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.

Desmond's acclaimed book draws on years of embedded fieldwork and painstakingly gathered data. Evicted won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Books Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, among numerous others. It was named one of the Best Books of 2016 by nearly three dozen outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. In 2017, Desmond launched the Eviction Lab at Princeton University after conversations with renters and policymakers convinced him that collecting national data on eviction would help answer fundamental questions about residential instability, forced moves, and poverty in America. They hope their findings will inform programs to prevent family homelessness and raise awareness of the centrality of housing insecurity in the lives of low-income families.

This program is FREE and open to the public.

The 2019 Talk of the Stacks series is presented by U.S. Bank with additional support from the Star Tribune.

Talk of the Stacks with Matthew Desmond is presented in partnership with the Pohlad Family Foundation.