Poets & Writers Theater
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In telling the story of the whaleship Essex, which was attacked and sunk by a sperm whale in the southern Pacific Ocean in 1820, novelist Karen Thompson Walker (The Age of Miracles) shows how fear propels imagination, as it forces us to imagine the possible futures and how to cope with them.
Tags: TED Talk | Essex | Karen Thompson Walker | The Age of Miracles | Fiction