Join Lit Hub senior editor and novelist Jessie Gaynor, author and NPR host Mary Childs, and CMC Director Chioke I’Anson for a series of author conversations. We’ll hear how contemporary novelists, journalists, and memoirists tackle their craft, find inspiration, and quiet the creative doubt.

In this session, we’ll be speaking with Atossa Abrahamian, an independent journalist who writes about the cracks in the nation-state system. Her new book, The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World, takes a revelatory look at a globe-spanning collection of offshore jurisdictions, legal black holes, and free zones that allow nations to use loopholes to skirt their own laws and to abdicate their law-enforcing powers in aid of tax-evading elites. We’ll discuss her journalistic approach, as well as the ways in which these twentieth- and twenty-first-century liminal spaces contribute to a new mercenary world order.

Doors open at 5:30 PM with the event starting at 6:30 PM.

About the Author: Atossa Araxia Abrahamian is a journalist whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, New York magazine, the London Review of Books, and other publications. A New America National fellow, she is the author of The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen, and has worked as an editor at The Nation, as an opinion editor at Al Jazeera America, and as a reporter for Reuters. She grew up in Geneva and lives in Brooklyn.