In 2022, I spoke with author Hernan Diaz about his novel Trust, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction a year later. While he was writing Trust, he was also working on another novel titled Ply, which just came out this week. Ply is set centuries in the future in a civilization that looks very different than we see today. Our unnamed narrator works as something called a “pincher,” who steals electricity off the grid in order to power underground concerts. Along the way she is introduced to a new scientific invention with the potential to change reality as the world understands it. I recently spoke with Hernan Diaz about his research, craft and so much more.
Ply by Hernan Diaz was published by Riverhead Books.
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