In times of crisis, societies look to their storytellers to understand and process the challenges and to peek around corners to see pathways that purely rational analyses simply can’t fathom. Today, best-sellers in fiction and memoir are setting real-world information about the climate crisis, social justice movements, and migration realities within their narratives. Audiences are ready for these stories, but what about artists? Does the moment dictate the art? In our ancestral past it was the myth-makers who guided their communities through crisis. Do modern day writers think about their obligations on the entertainment-awareness spectrum? How do storytellers move in or move out of our current moment? Join a conversation with leading writers about their creative process, how they consider the bigger local and global conversations as they craft their work, and the relationship between fictional narratives and real world movements for change.  Hosted by Laleh Khadivi, Iranian-born writer and filmmaker. With: Keenan Norris, novelist, essayist and scholar; Andri Snær Magnason, renowned Icelandic novelist, poet, filmmaker and environmental activist.