Our guest is Ta-Nehisi Coates. His debut novel, \u201cThe Water Dancer,\u201d merges the slavery narrative with fantasy, and draws on themes, stories, and research from his past non-fiction, including from his books \u201cBetween the World and Me\u201d and \u201cWe Were Eight Years in Power.\u201d On October 14, 2019, Ta-Nehisi Coates came to the Sydney Goldstein Theater to talk with fellow writer Michael Chabon about craft, the role of the writer in public discourse, and much more.