Wednesday, April 29, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Skylight Books, Los Angeles
 CLICK HERE TO RSVP _**RSVP is recommended but not required. Entry and seating are first-come, first-served. RSVPs do not guarantee entry to a full event.**_ **The story of a disillusioned generation that set out to reclaim its dignity and take on corporate America.** In recent years, young college grads have faced an alarming reality: crushing debt, unemployment, and jobs below their qualifications. They are frustrated that the time and money they invested in a degree have failed to bring about the opportunities they were promised. The anger of this college-educated working class began to boil over during the Covid pandemic, when workers at Starbucks cafes and Apple stores shocked corporate America by voting to unionize. The seemingly spontaneous rebellion soon spread to video game studios and tech companies, and to Hollywood writers and actors, who waged historic strikes the following year. In each case, frustrated college graduates were at the center of the uprising. When New York Times reporter Noam Scheiber met Sydney Mitchel, a writers guild strike captain at the Disney lot, he learned that she had once been a writer on a network television show, but had settled for a job as a writer’s assistant after a year of unemployment. Mutiny is the revelatory account of a generation made confident by their historic educational achievements, only to become disillusioned when their degrees yielded far less than they were taught to expect. With striking empathy, Scheiber paints a vivid portrait of this new working class while telling the dramatic story of its revolt against the status quo. He describes how recent developments like the proliferation of artificial intelligence and the war in Gaza have further fueled its discontent, and he explains why the college-educated working class will continue to demand change in the workplace, in cities like New York, and in national politics for years to come. **Noam Scheiber** covers workers for _The New York Times_. Before that, he covered economic policy and three presidential campaigns for _The New Republic_. His first book was _The Escape Artists_. He holds a master’s degree in economics from the University of Oxford. **Brooks Barnes** is a senior staff writer at _The New York Times_. He covers the entertainment business, with a particular focus on the Walt Disney Company. He joined _The Times_ in 2007 and lives in Los Angeles with his husband. Prior to _The Times_, he was a reporter at _The Wall Street Journal_, starting in 1999 in the newspaper's Seattle bureau.