# Event Details - **Event Name**: Nathaniel Rich presents Cloudthief, with Leanne Shapton - **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 14 Jul, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Tue, 14 Jul, 2026 at 08:00 pm - **Event Description**: Join Nathaniel Rich at Community Bookstore for the launch of his new novel, Cloudthief. Leanne Shapton will join him in conversation.About this EventPlease note that an RSVP does not guarantee you a seat. We can accommodate approximately 50 seated attendees and 80 total attendees. If you require a seat, please plan to arrive early.About the book:Forget banks, casinos, museums—society’s most valuable treasure sits in the giant, anonymous data centers that power modern life. There, in endless rows of hard drives, lies the sum of our civilization’s knowledge, all of the world’s personal and private truths, uploaded and saved. They wait unseen, unexploited, and, most critically, unguarded.Tim is a climate journalist disillusioned with chronicling the end of the world. Virginia is an evasive, paranoid, and technologically savvy con artist who has found an ingenious way to live off the grid in the heart of Manhattan. Joined by desire and desperation, they hatch a plan to steal secrets. But they have secrets of their own—secrets they can’t tell each other, secrets that could destroy them both...With their last few dollars and some dimestore wigs they set out for the outskirts of Tulsa, Oklahoma, the unlikely site of the world’s largest repository of knowledge—a data center the size of a small city—to attempt a brazen heist that, whether they fail or succeed, will change their lives forever.But the heist is only the beginning.From the award-winning author Nathaniel Rich, Cloudthief is a heist novel for a new era, in which the most valuable things in life are virtual, privacy is a sick joke, and security is relative. After all is lost, what remains?About the participants:Nathaniel Rich is the author of Cloudthief (2026) and three previous novels, all New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice selections: King Zeno (2018); Odds Against Tomorrow (2013); and The Mayor's Tongue (2008). His short fiction has won the Emily Clark Balch Prize and been a two-time finalist for the National Magazine Award for Fiction. He has also written two works of nonfiction: Second Nature (2021), which includes the story that serves as the basis for the film Dark Waters; and Losing Earth (2019), a finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. Losing Earth is being adapted into a film directed by Tom McCarthy. Rich is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and a frequent contributor to The Atlantic, Harper’s, and The New York Review of Books. A 2025 Guggenheim Fellow, he teaches at Tulane University and lives in New Orleans.Leanne Shapton is an author, artist and publisher based in New York City. She is currently the art editor at . She is the co-founder, with photographer Jason Fulford, of J&L Books, an internationally-distributed not-for-profit imprint specializing in art and photography books. Shapton is a fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. She grew up in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Shapton's Swimming Studies won the 2012 National Book Critic's Circle Award for autobiography, and was long listed for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2012. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/brooklyn/nathaniel-rich-presents-cloudthief-with-leanne-shapton/100001991730566741 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, sports, entertainment, science-fair - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 1 hour - Location: Community Bookstore - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Brooklyn - **state**: NY - **country**: United States - **location**: Community Bookstore - **lat**: 40.67273729999999 - **long**: -73.9764706 - **full address**: Community Bookstore, 143 7th Avenue, Brooklyn, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Nathaniel Rich presents Cloudthief, with Leanne Shapton - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events9/banners/5e917333167239f493149a1d962fa22f3dbe7b235256f9c52961180f788cdc0d-rimg-w1200-h600-dc4b8f82-gmir.jpg?v=1782634911 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Nathaniel Rich presents Cloudthief, with Leanne Shapton being held? - **A:** Nathaniel Rich presents Cloudthief, with Leanne Shapton takes place on Tue, 14 Jul, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Tue, 14 Jul, 2026 at 08:00 pm at Community Bookstore, 143 7th Avenue, Brooklyn, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Nathaniel Rich presents Cloudthief, with Leanne Shapton? - **A:** Nathaniel Rich presents Cloudthief, with Leanne Shapton is organized by Community Bookstore. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** Nathaniel Rich presents Cloudthief, with Leanne Shapton is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Brooklyn, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. 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