Drew Magary, author of the novel “The Postmortal,” will present a lecture at 7 p.m. Sept. 9 in Eppley Auditorium, 3625 Garretson Ave., on the Morningside College campus. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Drew Magary, author of the novel “The Postmortal,” will present a lecture at 7 p.m. Sept. 9 in Eppley Auditorium, 3625 Garretson Ave., on the Morningside College campus. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Magary’s critically acclaimed novel was nominated for the 2012 Philip K. Dick award and the 2012 Arthur C. Clarke award. All incoming Morningside freshmen were given “The Postmortal” to read during this past summer. The freshmen joined upper class student leaders for discussions about the book during orientation activities on the Morningside campus Aug. 22-25.

In “The Postmortal” Magary imagines a near future where the cure for aging is discovered and made available to people worldwide after much political and moral debate.

Magary is a correspondent for GQ and a columnist for Deadspin. He also is the author of the book “Someone Could Get Hurt: A Memoir of Twenty-First-Century Parenthood” (2014). In addition, he has written for New York magazine, NPR, NBC, Maxim, The Atlantic, Bon Appetit, The Huffington Post, The Awl, Gawker, Playboy, Rolling Stone, Yahoo!, ESPN, Comedy Central, and more.