Author Q&A Series

April 12, 2023 • 7:00-8:00pm

Steven Thrasher

The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
(Celadon Books, Aug 2022)

Steven W. Thrasher, PhD holds the inaugural Daniel H. Renberg chair at Northwestern University’s Medill School, the first journalism professorship in the world created to focus on LGBTQ+ research, and is a faculty member of Northwestern’s Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing. He has been published in The New York Times, The Nation, The Atlantic, Scientific American, Esquire, and The Journal of American History, among others, and has been a staff writer for the Village Voice and a columnist for the Guardian. He is an alumnus of Saturday Night Live and NPR StoryCorps and worked on the HBO film The Laramie Project. The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide (Celadon Books/MacMillan, 2022) is his first book.

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February 23, 2023 • 7:00-8:00pm

Elena Conis, PhD

How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall and Toxic Return of DDT
(Bold Type, 2022)

March 23, 2023 • 7:00-8:00pm

Bethany Brookshire, PhD

Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains
(Ecco, Dec 2022)

This event is co-produced with the Atlanta Science Festival.

We'd like to send a special thank you to Georgia Center for the Book and Atlanta Science Gallery for being the official co-sponsors of the Spring 2023 Living Health: Author Q&A Series.