Author Conover to Discuss ‘Routes’ at UA

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Ted Conover, author of the new book “The Routes of Man: How Roads Are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today,” will speak at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 9, at 120 Farrah Hall on The University of Alabama campus.

The talk is free and open to the public.

Conover’s visit is part of UA’s Faculty-in-Residence Series, co-sponsored by Honors and Housing-Residential Communities, and the Bankhead Visiting Writers Series in UA’s English department.

Conover is the author of four nonfiction works. His book “Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing,” won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2001 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He contributes to publications including The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker. His new book, “The Routes of Man,” explores the roads that bind our world, transforming landscapes and the lives of the people who inhabit them.

“I write about real people, often by living their lives for a while — visiting their lives, you might say,” Conover states on his website. “Though there are easier ways to make a living, I suppose, none strike me as a fraction so interesting.

Each year, the Faculty-in-Residence Series brings a diverse group of speakers and artists to UA. The Bankhead Visiting Writers Series brings emerging, as well as internationally renowned, writers to The University of Alabama campus to read from their work.