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Tune in to a conversation between the authors Michael Lewis and Geraldine Brooks, presented by Live Talks Los Angeles. Mr. Lewis will speak about his new book, “The Premonition: A Pandemic Story,” which follows a biochemist, a public health worker and a federal government employee who worked in the White House as they confront the pandemic. Tickets cost $35, and include a signed copy of the book. When 9 p.m. Thursday Explore what net zero emissions might look like in a discussion presented by The New York Times and Morgan Stanley. The Times’s Andrew Ross Sorkin joins Dame Ellen MacArthur, founder of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation; Matt Dwyer, vice president of product impact and innovation at Patagonia; and other experts to explore how the economy can transform in the fight against climate change. The governor of Tokyo, Yuriko Koike, will also be in conversation with Motoko Rich, The Times’s Tokyo bureau chief, to discuss the city’s plan to integrate cir ....