Pulitzer Prize winner to speak at UCC Sunday
NORWICH – Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, author and war correspondent Chris Hedges will speak at the United Church of Christ (UCC) Sunday to discuss themes from his latest book – “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle.”
The program is the second in what the local church hopes to make an annual series, bringing national speakers to Norwich to address a wide variety of issues, according to Reverend Joseph Connolly, pastor and teacher at UCC.
Also the author of the best-selling “War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning” – 2002 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction – Hedges’ latest offering “charts the dramatic and disturbing rise of a post-literate society that craves fantasy, ecstasy and illusion,” according to publisher Knopf Canada.
In the book, Hedges states that two distinct societies now exist – one which “functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth” versus one that is “retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic,” as stated at www.randomhouse.ca.
In this second society, according to the website, “serious film and theater, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins.”
Currently a columnist for the Internet magazine Truthig, Hedges is the author of nine books and spent approximately two decades reporting from the Middle East, Central America, Africa and the Balkans. In 2009, the Academy Award-winning film The Hurt Locker featured a well-known quote of Hedges’ during its opening – “The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.”
Connolly said he expects the program to be both informative and entertaining and has “spoken with others who said he is an excellent speaker, something you don’t always get with an author.”
The author will also field questions following his presentation, he added.
Hedges will speak at 3 p.m. Sunday at the United Church of Christ, 11 West Main St. and the program is free and open to the public. For more information call 334-3434 or e-mail office@uccnorichny.org.
The program is the second in what the local church hopes to make an annual series, bringing national speakers to Norwich to address a wide variety of issues, according to Reverend Joseph Connolly, pastor and teacher at UCC.
Also the author of the best-selling “War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning” – 2002 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction – Hedges’ latest offering “charts the dramatic and disturbing rise of a post-literate society that craves fantasy, ecstasy and illusion,” according to publisher Knopf Canada.
In the book, Hedges states that two distinct societies now exist – one which “functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth” versus one that is “retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic,” as stated at www.randomhouse.ca.
In this second society, according to the website, “serious film and theater, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins.”
Currently a columnist for the Internet magazine Truthig, Hedges is the author of nine books and spent approximately two decades reporting from the Middle East, Central America, Africa and the Balkans. In 2009, the Academy Award-winning film The Hurt Locker featured a well-known quote of Hedges’ during its opening – “The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.”
Connolly said he expects the program to be both informative and entertaining and has “spoken with others who said he is an excellent speaker, something you don’t always get with an author.”
The author will also field questions following his presentation, he added.
Hedges will speak at 3 p.m. Sunday at the United Church of Christ, 11 West Main St. and the program is free and open to the public. For more information call 334-3434 or e-mail office@uccnorichny.org.
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