Author Talk: Diamonds, Murder, and a Clash of Worlds in the Amazon With Alex Cuadros

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The Mill Valley Library in in Mill Valley, California, presents an evening with Alex Cuadros—author of Brazillionaires and the Pulitzer Center-supported report for The New York Times Magazine, "Has the Amazon Reached Its 'Tipping Point'?"

The event is scheduled for Tuesday, December 3, 2024, 6:30-8:00pm Pacific.

A conversation with writer, reporter, and University of California, Berkeley, professor Mark Danner, the event is in honor of Cuadros' new work of journalistic nonfiction, When We Sold God's Eye, the story of the Cinta Larga, a tribe that had no contact with the West until the 1960s and came to run an illegal diamond mine in the Amazon. 

Based on six years of reporting and research, When We Sold God's Eye tells a unique kind of adventure story, one that begins with a river journey by Teddy Roosevelt and ends with smugglers from Antwerp and New York City’s Diamond District. 

Participants:

• Alex Cuadros: Cuadros, a Pulitzer Center grantee, is the author of Brazillionaires, which was long-listed for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year award. A former Bloomberg staff reporter, he’s also written for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post. His article on the Amazon’s ecological tipping point was chosen for 2024’s Best American Science and Nature Writing.
• Mark Danner is a reporter who has written on politics and foreign affairs, focusing on war and conflict. He has covered Central America, Haiti, the Balkans, Iraq, and the Middle East, among many other stories. Danner is the Chancellor's Professor of English and Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.