Book Talk: Jeannie Vanasco, A Silent Treatment
Friday, February 20 @ 6 pm
Golden Hour Rum Room, St. Michaels
FREE
Jeannie Vanasco’s latest memoir is about the period her mother spent living in the basement apartment of Vanasco’s Baltimore home and began retreating into periods of punishing silence lasting days, weeks, or even months. In A Silent Treatment (Tin House, 2025)--an NPR and Electric Literature “Best of 2025” pick--Jeannie reflects on her mother’s withdrawal, articulating her own bewilderment and compassionately exploring a complicated mother-daughter relationship. “Like Annie Ernaux, Jeannie has a genius for immediacy, writing from within an experience while at the same time offering a perspective that is self-aware, wise, and wry,” writes Kate Reed Petty for BOMB Magazine. Jeannie will be in conversation with Shore Lit Director Kerry Folan.
This event is presented in partnership with Shore Lit, Windon Distilling, and Book Hounds. Doors open at 5pm. We are requesting reservations to help us prepare, but please note that seating is limited and available on a first come, first served basis. If you have questions about accessibility for this event, please email Kerry Folan at [email protected].
Friday, February 20 @ 6 pm
Golden Hour Rum Room, St. Michaels
FREE
Jeannie Vanasco’s latest memoir is about the period her mother spent living in the basement apartment of Vanasco’s Baltimore home and began retreating into periods of punishing silence lasting days, weeks, or even months. In A Silent Treatment (Tin House, 2025)--an NPR and Electric Literature “Best of 2025” pick--Jeannie reflects on her mother’s withdrawal, articulating her own bewilderment and compassionately exploring a complicated mother-daughter relationship. “Like Annie Ernaux, Jeannie has a genius for immediacy, writing from within an experience while at the same time offering a perspective that is self-aware, wise, and wry,” writes Kate Reed Petty for BOMB Magazine. Jeannie will be in conversation with Shore Lit Director Kerry Folan.
This event is presented in partnership with Shore Lit, Windon Distilling, and Book Hounds. Doors open at 5pm. We are requesting reservations to help us prepare, but please note that seating is limited and available on a first come, first served basis. If you have questions about accessibility for this event, please email Kerry Folan at [email protected].
Book Talk: David George Haskell, How Flowers Made Our World
Oxford Community Center, Oxford
Sunday, May 2 @ 2pm
FREE
"Flowers are the world’s great collaborators and creators,” writes David George Haskell, a biologist and nature writer acclaimed for his lyrical explorations of the living world. Haskell’s books have twice been finalists for Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction and have won the American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award and the National Academies’ Best Book Award, among many other honors. His latest book, How Flowers Made Our World: The Story of Nature’s Revolutionaries (Viking, 2026), combines lyrical writing, sensual exploration, and the latest in scientific research to explore some of the most consequential life forms ever to have evolved, showing how our planet came to be and how it thrives today.
This program is presented in partnership with Shore Lit, Adkins Arboretum, and the Oxford Community Center. Seating is limited and registration is required. For questions about accessibility for this event, please email Kerry Folan at [email protected].
Oxford Community Center, Oxford
Sunday, May 2 @ 2pm
FREE
"Flowers are the world’s great collaborators and creators,” writes David George Haskell, a biologist and nature writer acclaimed for his lyrical explorations of the living world. Haskell’s books have twice been finalists for Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction and have won the American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award and the National Academies’ Best Book Award, among many other honors. His latest book, How Flowers Made Our World: The Story of Nature’s Revolutionaries (Viking, 2026), combines lyrical writing, sensual exploration, and the latest in scientific research to explore some of the most consequential life forms ever to have evolved, showing how our planet came to be and how it thrives today.
This program is presented in partnership with Shore Lit, Adkins Arboretum, and the Oxford Community Center. Seating is limited and registration is required. For questions about accessibility for this event, please email Kerry Folan at [email protected].