Book Talk: CJ Hauser in Conversation with Shore Lit Founder Kerry Folan
Friday October 13, 6 pm
Academy Art Museum, Easton
Hauser’s memoir-in-essays The Crane Wife brilliantly deconstructs the myths that shape our understanding of desire. Frank and funny, it’s about love, and also, as New York Times columnist Jennifer Senior writes, “about the power of stories: The ones we are told versus the ones we tell ourselves; how they shape and misshape our expectations; how those stories can both affirm our instincts and estrange us from our deepest yearnings, sometimes at the same time.” Hauser will discuss their memoir, a Guardian “Best Book of the Year” and a Lambda Literary Award finalist, with Shore Lit Founder Kerry Folan.
Friday October 13, 6 pm
Academy Art Museum, Easton
Hauser’s memoir-in-essays The Crane Wife brilliantly deconstructs the myths that shape our understanding of desire. Frank and funny, it’s about love, and also, as New York Times columnist Jennifer Senior writes, “about the power of stories: The ones we are told versus the ones we tell ourselves; how they shape and misshape our expectations; how those stories can both affirm our instincts and estrange us from our deepest yearnings, sometimes at the same time.” Hauser will discuss their memoir, a Guardian “Best Book of the Year” and a Lambda Literary Award finalist, with Shore Lit Founder Kerry Folan.
Book Talk: David George Haskell
Sunday February 4, 2:00 pm
Avalon Theatre, Easton
Biologist and nature writer David George Haskell has spent his career reminding us to pay closer attention to nature. In his latest book, which was nominated for a 2022 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction, Haskell turns his perceptive powers to “Earth’s fraying soundtrack”—the planet’s orchestral richness, which is being increasingly blocked out by human noise. Haskell will deliver a book talk and play some recordings of nature’s most wondrous sounds in the Stoltz Listening Room of the Avalon Theatre. This program is presented by Shore Lit, Adkins Arboretum, and the Avalon Foundation.
Sunday February 4, 2:00 pm
Avalon Theatre, Easton
Biologist and nature writer David George Haskell has spent his career reminding us to pay closer attention to nature. In his latest book, which was nominated for a 2022 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction, Haskell turns his perceptive powers to “Earth’s fraying soundtrack”—the planet’s orchestral richness, which is being increasingly blocked out by human noise. Haskell will deliver a book talk and play some recordings of nature’s most wondrous sounds in the Stoltz Listening Room of the Avalon Theatre. This program is presented by Shore Lit, Adkins Arboretum, and the Avalon Foundation.
Book Talk: Andrew Leland in Conversation with Shore Lit Founder Kerry Folan
Thursday March 7, 6 pm
Academy Art Museum, Easton
In his teens, Andrew Leland was diagnosed with a rare congenital condition that would eventually leave him blind. In in his new memoir, hailed by the New York Times Book Review as “a wonderful cross-disciplinary wander," Leland approaches his gradual sight loss from the perspective of an explorer, braiding anecdotes of professional and family life with deep research into the history of blindness and keen analysis of its resonance as a literary trope. The writer, podcaster, and longtime editor of the The Believer magazine will discuss Country of the Blind with Shore Lit Founder Kerry Folan.
Thursday March 7, 6 pm
Academy Art Museum, Easton
In his teens, Andrew Leland was diagnosed with a rare congenital condition that would eventually leave him blind. In in his new memoir, hailed by the New York Times Book Review as “a wonderful cross-disciplinary wander," Leland approaches his gradual sight loss from the perspective of an explorer, braiding anecdotes of professional and family life with deep research into the history of blindness and keen analysis of its resonance as a literary trope. The writer, podcaster, and longtime editor of the The Believer magazine will discuss Country of the Blind with Shore Lit Founder Kerry Folan.