Reporting America: An Evening with George Packer

George Packer, a staff writer for The Atlantic, is one of America's preeminent journalists and essayists. In conversation with Joshua Yaffa, BCB's writer-in-residence, Packer will narrate and expound upon his extensive reporting, carried out over the last decade-plus, from the parts of the United States that may feel mysterious and unknown to European audiences, but carry outsized social and political resonance. He will relay stories of American struggle, ambition, hope, and disappointment from Florida to the Midwest and Arizona, as well as his own home of New York City. Each of these communities, and the people living in them, stand as avatars and guides for understanding larger shifts in the American polity and where the country may be headed. Packer and Yaffa will also address the role and craft of reporting and writing in a context of increasing pressures, whether social or economic.

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George Packer is a staff writer at The Atlantic. He is the author of 10 books, including The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (a winner of the 2013 National Book Award); Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century (the winner of the 2019 Hitchens Prize and Los Angeles Times Book Prize); and, most recently, Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal. Before joining The Atlantic in 2018, he was a staff writer at The New Yorker for 15 years. He writes about American politics and culture and U.S. foreign policy.

Joshua Yaffa is a contributing writer for The New Yorker. He is also the author of Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia, which won the Orwell Prize in 2021. He has also written for Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, National Geographic, and other publications. He is currently the inaugural writer-in-residence at Bard College Berlin and was previously a fellow at The American Academy in Berlin.

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Time: 7:00 pm CET/GMT+1

Location: BCB Lecture Hall (Platanenstr. 98a, 13156 Berlin)

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