# Event Details - **Event Name**: Marlon James — The Disappearers - with Lily Meyer — at Betts Theater - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 10 Sep, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 10 Sep, 2026 at 08:00 pm (-04:00) - **Event Description**: Join us for an evening in conversation with Marlon James for his new novel, The Disappearers.About this EventIn 1988, eight men in Kingston, Jamaica, begin rehearsals for a play. The men are strangers to one another and each has a different reason for being involved. But they all share one inescapable truth: All of them are gay―a “battyman” in Jamaican argot―and all of them must contend with the dangers that such a truth lays bare.One night a mob savagely attacks them, killing one of the men. For the survivors, their recovery is as much emotional as it is physical. As their bodies heal, each man grapples with the violence, the hatred, and the rage that the attack made plain. Some try to ignore what the attack has unearthed, while others double down on retribution.In The Disappearers, Marlon James has written a riveting and deeply human story of men forced to make compromises to survive what the society they live in demands. It is both a dramatic page-turner and an unflinching exploration of queer life in Jamaica during the 1980s and 1990s.Marlon James is the Booker Prize–winning and New York Times bestselling author of A Brief History of Seven Killings; the bestselling and National Book Award finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf; as well as the bestselling Moon Witch, Spider King; The Book of Night Women; and John Crow’s Devil. In addition to the Booker Prize, James’s novels have won the American Book Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, and the Los Angeles Times Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, and have been finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the NAACP Image Award. In 2019, Time magazine named him one of the one hundred most influential people in the world. Born in Jamaica, James lives in New York City.James will be in conversation with Lily Meyer. Meyer is a translator, a critic, and the author of the novels The End of Romance (Viking, 2026) and Short War (Deep Vellum, 2024). She is a staff writer at The Atlantic. Her stories and translations can be found in The Dial, The Drift, The Sewanee Review, The Southern Review, and many other journals. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/washington/marlon-james-the-disappearers-with-lily-meyer-at-betts-theater/100001991500911837 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, science-fair - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 1 hour - Location: GWU Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 23.2, max: 50.9, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Washington - **state**: DC - **country**: United States - **location**: GWU Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre - **lat**: 38.8999317 - **long**: -77.0472034 - **full address**: GWU Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre, 800 21st St NW, Washington, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Marlon James — The Disappearers - with Lily Meyer — at Betts Theater - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/00d5fdea4e555cb5f84451d0efd5a3dd5330277e107dbbe5baaf85de7c2f31d1-rimg-w1200-h600-dc61170d-gmir.jpg?v=1781673314 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Marlon James — The Disappearers - with Lily Meyer — at Betts Theater being held? - **A:** Marlon James — The Disappearers - with Lily Meyer — at Betts Theater takes place on Thu, 10 Sep, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Thu, 10 Sep, 2026 at 08:00 pm at GWU Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre, 800 21st St NW, Washington, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Marlon James — The Disappearers - with Lily Meyer — at Betts Theater? - **A:** Marlon James — The Disappearers - with Lily Meyer — at Betts Theater is organized by Politics and Prose. - **Q**: What has been the experience of attendees at Politics and Prose's events? - **A:** Attendees have given Politics and Prose a rating of 5/5 based on reviews from early attendees on AllEvents. 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