This is a free event; details available from Book Soup’s website.

Alissa will be in conversation with Justin Chang, who is a film critic at The New Yorker. He also reviews movies for NPR’s “Fresh Air.” Previously, he was the film critic at the Los Angeles Times and the chief film critic at Variety. His book “FilmCraft: Editing” was published in 2011. Chang serves as the chair of the National Society of Film Critics and the secretary of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and is a member of the New York Film Festival selection committee. He teaches at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. In 2024, he won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism, for his writing about film at the Los Angeles Times.