Phoebe Greenwood with Michael Reynolds: VULTURE

You’re invited to an evening with Phoebe Greenwood, whose new novel Vulture draws readers into the dark heart of western media, and with audacity and humour, questions its complicity in the tragedies that feed it. Centered on a young news reporter who is sent to cover a war from the Beach Hotel in Gaza, it’s an arresting, incisive commentary on our present moment as much as it is on longer-standing media trends.

We are delighted that Michael Reynolds, Executive Publisher of Europa Editions– Vulture’s publisher– will join Greenwood in conversation.

From the author– to give you a taste of what you might ponder at this event: “This book is about the war news industry and how it fails the people whose tragedies fuel it. Its dysfunction, self-interest and crippling existential angst. I’m a great believer in free and fair journalism. Journalists are some of my favorite people. I also think the media needs to hold itself to account now more rigorously than ever if it wants to be trusted. As Omar El Akkad writes in his brilliant One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This: ‘The worst and most successful war reporters I meet are all very confident.'”

We hope you’ll join us for this exciting, insightful evening!

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Phoebe Greenwood is a freelance journalist and has reported on British and foreign affairs for publications including the Guardian, the Spectator, the Sunday Times and the Financial Times Magazine. She has worked with Save the Children UK and Amnesty International across the world and was the Middle East stringer for the Guardian and the Observer from 2010-2013. She has since reported, commissioned, and supervised correspondence on the Israel/Palestine conflict for France 24, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, the Guardian, Hyphen, and Vice News Tonight.

Michael Reynolds is the Executive Publisher of Europa Editions. He is the recipient of the 2016 Golden Colophon Award for Superlative Achievement & Leadership in Independent Literary Publishing, given by the Community of Literary and Magazine Presses, was a 2017 Epiphany Magazine Honoree for Publishing Excellence, and in 2020 was named a knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his significant contribution to the enrichment of the French cultural inheritance. He has served on the jury for the PEN/Heim Translation Fund, the Gutekunst Prize for Young Translators, and the foreign jury of the Strega Prize. He is a regular speaker at publishing conferences in America and internationally, a member of the Independent Publisher Caucus Steering Committee, and the founder of Books Across Borders.

Prize-winning and bestselling authors Reynolds has worked with at Europa include Mieko Kawakami, Elena Ferrante, Amélie Nothomb, Alina Bronsky, Domenico Starnone, Anne Berest, Joseph O’Connor, K Patrick, and Robert Seethaler.

Born in Australia, Reynolds now lives in New York.

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@reynoldsmichael

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