Politics & Prose at Busboys and Poets, Takoma, presents Ron Childress as he discusses his new book And West is West.
Winner of the 2014 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, Childress’s debut novel looks at how we use technology to do our dirty jobs for us—one of which is to conceal from ourselves exactly what we are doing. Childress, who has worked in a variety of communications and marketing capacities, focuses on a drone pilot in Nevada and a big-data worker on Wall Street. As the two narratives unfold, both characters find that they not only use the new technology but are used by it, and that the algorithms are as treacherous as the remote weaponry.
This event is part of the Politics & Prose and the PEN/Faulkner Foundation Contemporary Fiction Reading Series at Busboys and Poets.
