# Event Details - **Event Name**: Ayad Akhtar celebrates THE RADIANCE on October 10th at 3pm - **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 10 Oct, 2026 at 03:00 pm – Sat, 10 Oct, 2026 at 04:00 pm (-04:00) - **Event Description**: Barnes & Noble Philly welcomes Ayad Akhtar to discuss The Radiance on October 10th at 3pm!About this EventJoin and Barnes & Noble Philadelphia on Saturday, October 10th at 3pm at Barnes & Noble Philadelphia (1708 Chestnut Street) for a discussion of .A mysterious accident along a country road sparks an awakening and an investigation in Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and acclaimed novelist Ayad Akhtar’s most daring work yet—a visionary novel of spiritual transformation in an age of fracture.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------To make this event safe and enjoyable for all attendees, please read the guidelines below before registering for a ticket so that you know what to expect on the day of the event.General Admission Ticket ***LIMITED QUANTITY AVAILABLE:Registering for a General Admission Ticket guarantees entrance to the event for the discussion and signing.Seating: Limited quantity is available and will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis.Standing Room-Only: Limited quantity is available and will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis. In the event all seating is filled, ticket holders will be granted a standing view from behind the seated audience -- some views may be more limited/obstructed than others.ADDITIONAL GUIDELINES:--Please note that Eventbrite is the only authorized dealer for this event. Each person must have a ticket to enter.--Due to health and safety and space limitations, those without a ticket will not be permitted into the event space.--The exact time at which the event ends will be determined on the night of the event. To avoid disappointment, we strongly advise you to arrive on time for the event.--All event guidelines are subject to change.--If you have any additional questions, please can call the store directly at: (267) 234-9790.--Barnes & Noble may cancel this event at any time with or without notice to the ticket holders.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ABOUT THE AUTHORAyad Akhtar is a novelist and playwright. His work has been published and performed in over two dozen languages. He is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Edith Wharton Citation of Merit for Fiction, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.Akhtar is the author of Homeland Elegies (Little, Brown & Co.), which The Washington Post called “a tour de force” and The New York Times called “a beautiful novel…that had echoes of The Great Gatsby and that circles, with pointed intellect, the possibilities and limitations of American life.” His first novel, American Dervish (Little, Brown & Co.), was published in over 20 languages. As a playwright, he has written McNeal (Lincoln Center, Broadway), Junk (Lincoln Center, Broadway; Kennedy Prize for American Drama, Tony nomination); Disgraced (Lincoln Center, Broadway; Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony nomination); The Who & The What (Lincoln Center); and The Invisible Hand (NYTW; Obie Award, Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award, Olivier, and Evening Standard nominations).ABOUT A mysterious accident along a country road sparks an awakening and an investigation in Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and acclaimed novelist Ayad Akhtar’s most daring work yet—a visionary novel of spiritual transformation in an age of fracture—“bordering at times on the ineffable” (Mary Gaitskill, bestselling author of Bad Behavior).When a hit-and-run shatters more than his body, a writer is plunged into a spiritual awakening he can’t tell from madness. In its grip, he’s drawn to a brilliant campus colleague by an uncanny pull, and into a scandal that threatens to destroy them both. What begins as a provocative portrait of academic and cultural warfare deepens into erotic entanglement, the exposure of a family secret, and the mystery surrounding the narrator’s accident—both the violence and its aftermath.Moving between rural America and Europe, Islam and Christianity, the intimate and the metaphysical, The Radiance is of our American moment and beyond it—asking not only what has broken, but what radiance remains. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/philadelphia/ayad-akhtar-celebrates-the-radiance-on-october-10th-at-3pm/100001994874060014 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, performances, theatre, entertainment, health-wellness - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 1 hour - Location: Barnes & Noble - Philadelphia - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Philadelphia - **state**: PA - **country**: United States - **location**: Barnes & Noble - Philadelphia - **lat**: 39.9514165 - **long**: -75.16919539999999 - **full address**: Barnes & Noble - Philadelphia, 1708 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Ayad Akhtar celebrates THE RADIANCE on October 10th at 3pm - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events2/banners/79c174dd43173f8b0f6d5f4a20a28aae8cc97d154819482faf183aebd9039f4b-rimg-w1200-h600-dce89858-gmir.jpg?v=1787204387 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Ayad Akhtar celebrates THE RADIANCE on October 10th at 3pm being held? - **A:** Ayad Akhtar celebrates THE RADIANCE on October 10th at 3pm takes place on Sat, 10 Oct, 2026 at 03:00 pm to Sat, 10 Oct, 2026 at 04:00 pm at Barnes & Noble - Philadelphia, 1708 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Ayad Akhtar celebrates THE RADIANCE on October 10th at 3pm? - **A:** Ayad Akhtar celebrates THE RADIANCE on October 10th at 3pm is organized by Barnes & Noble - Philadelphia. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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