Outriders: Jennifer Haigh & Malachy Tallack (2017 Event)

As part of our Outriders project to explore the Americas, Boston
novelist Jennifer Haigh travelled with Scottish writer Malachy
Tallack on a journey that took in the Midwestern heartlands of
Donald Trump’s USA. Starting in Fargo, they visited the site of
the Dakota Pipeline protests before travelling south through
Tennessee and Mississippi and arriving in Louisiana. Along the
way, they met the reclusive writer Wendell Berry and members of
the Black Lives Matter movement. In this event, recorded live at
the 2017 Edinburgh International Book Festival, they share some
of their unforgettable experiences, and some of the writing
inspired by the journey.