Sep 5, 2022
Award-winning showrunner, filmmaker and bestselling novelist
Noah Hawley (creator of FX’s Fargo and Legion) speaks with Jeffrey
Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, about Hawley’s sixth and
newest novel Anthem, a thoughtful and entertaining cultural
commentary for the real world we live in that examines a plethora
of ongoing issues ranging from political divisions to climate
change -- all in Hawley’s uniquely incisive voice.
With Anthem, Hawley faced his most challenging writing yet --
putting a level of hindsight to something where the ink wasn’t dry
yet, or as he says, “If my job as a writer is to recreate the real
world around me, then what do I do when the real world around me
becomes ridiculous?”
Hawley ranks among the most prolific and accomplished writers
working between page and screen – having won both an Emmy Award and
Edgar Award, and Anthem has been discussed as an epic inventive
literary thriller that is the first must read novel of the
year.