Rachel Kushner and Paul Schrader: Prison Complex | 5-1-2018 | LIVE from the NYPL 

LIVE from the NYPL | Recorded live at the New york Public Library, Celeste Bartos Forum, May 1, 2018.
Bestselling author Rachel Kushner joins LIVE to discuss her most recent novel, The Mars Room, set in a women’s correctional facility deep within California’s Central Valley. Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences and severed from the San Francisco of her youth and her young son, Jackson. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive; the bluffing and pageantry and casual acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike; and the deadpan absurdities of institutional living, which Kushner evokes with great humor and precision. Kushner will speak with screenwriter and director Paul Schrader.