Late City: An Afternoon with Robert Olen Butler and Chauncey Mabe

Event Date: September 19, 2021 4:00 pm

In LATE CITY, a 115-year-old man begins to die in a nursing home 10 minutes after the 2016 presidential race is called. Curious to know what prompted Robert Olen Butler to tell this story? Hear it from the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer himself in conversation with Chauncey Mabe.

Robert Olen Butler is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of eighteen previous novels, and the author of six short story collections and a book on the creative process. For more than twenty years Chauncey Mabe worked as book review editor at the Sun Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale. Today he lives in Miami where he operates as a freelance writer specializing in the arts, especially books