BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Writers LIVE!,Virtual Event DESCRIPTION:Let the Great World Spin meets The White Lotus when three passe ngers from wildly different backgrounds board a cruise ship bound for Bermu da shortly after 9/11 and learn en route that they can’t outrun their regre ts about the risks not taken.\n\n \n\nIt’s Sunday\, September 16\, 2001. Fr anny and her husband have traded in their elegant Park Avenue co-op for a s uite on board the Sonata\, a once-glittering cruise ship with a complicated history now long past its prime. Though they’re not “cruise people\,” Fran ny is determined to host the trip as planned because it’s her mother’s seve ntieth birthday\, or chilsun\, a major rite of passage celebrated by Korean families. But as her husband keeps pointing out\, Franny and her mother ar en’t close\, and it is surreal—even wrong—to be on a cruise as the death to ll from the attacks on 9/11 continues to rise.\n\n \n\nAlso on board is Dou g\, an aging actor and former star of Starlight Voyages\, the hit Love Boat –style television series famously filmed on the Sonata. With few profession al prospects\, a now sober Doug has reluctantly joined his former castmates on a reunion cruise for fans of the show\, but he dreads the dark specter of his past misdeeds. Meanwhile\, Lucy\, the only Black female graduate stu dent in her department at MIT\, has uncharacteristically accepted an invita tion to join her roommate on the cruise during the height of recruitment se ason. Lucy’s impulsive decision reflects her growing ambivalence about the tech companies that are trying to hire her\, including a new one with a str ange-sounding name\, Google.\n\n \n\nAll the World Can Hold beautifully exp lores how we balance our needs and our wants\, as well as the regrets we li ve with and the chances to set them right. And though it’s not a 9/11 novel \, it does remind us that while the great world spins\, the interpersonal d ramas don’t cease\, even as more dire ones play out in the larger world.\n\ n \n\nJung Yun will be joined in conversation by novelist Jane Delury. \n\n \n\nAbout the Author: \n\nJung Yun was born in Seoul\, South Korea\, and g rew up in Fargo\, North Dakota. She is the author of O Beautiful\, which wa s a New York Times Editors’ Choice\, a New York Times Group Read\, and a Sa n Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year. Her debut novel\, Shelter\, was lon glisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize and was a finalist f or the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award. She is an associate professor of creative writing at the George Washington University and serv es on the board of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation.\n\n \n\nAbout the Moderator : \n\nJane Delury is the author of the novels Hedge and The Balcony\, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of A rts and Letters. Her short stories have appeared in publications including Granta\, The Georgia Review\, Ploughshares\, and The Yale Review and have w on a PEN/O.Henry Prize and a Pushcart Prize. She is a professor of creative writing at the University of Baltimore\, where she directs the BA in Engli sh.\n\n \n\nAbout the Program: \n\nTo attend in person please register here . Doors will open to registered attendees at 6 pm. A local bookseller will be on-site and have books available for purchase.Free parking vouchers are available to program attendees who park at the Franklin Street Garage (15 W . Franklin Street) after 4pm. Ask Pratt event staff for your parking vouch er prior to or after the program. This free event will be presented in-pers on and virtually. DTEND:20260311T000000Z DTSTAMP:20260419T170656Z DTSTART:20260310T230000Z GEO:39.294601;-76.617302 LOCATION:Central Library\, Wheeler Auditorium SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Jung Yun: "All the World Can Hold" UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51453193447651 URL:https://calendar.prattlibrary.org/event/jung-yun-all-the-world-can-hold END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR