Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures Series
A lecture series featuring ten critically acclaimed authors sharing their insights will be available at the Cape Vincent Community Library in partnership with the Cape Vincent Arts Council and Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures. This is the second year the series has been made available locally.
The “Ten Evenings” series features an exciting roster of top authors sharing their creativity, insights, and humanity with the audience. Presented by Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures, the series will be available to the public via streaming at the Cape Vincent Community Library, 157 N. Real Street, in partnership with the Cape Vincent Arts Council.
The streaming series is free to the public and will take place at the library Tuesdays and Saturdays from 1:00-2:00, followed by a discussion session for the local audience. Each of the ten authors will be featured once on a Tuesday and again on a Saturday, beginning at 1:00 both days. Advance registration is recommended by calling the library at 315-654-2132. Individual screenings can also be scheduled by calling the library.
The streaming series will proceed as follows: Tuesday, Sept. 17 & Saturday, Sept. 21 Colm Tóibín – Long Island. From the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Brooklyn comes a gorgeous story of a woman alone in a marriage and the deepest bonds she rekindles on her return to the place and people she left behind.
Tuesday, Oct. 1 & Saturday, Oct. 5 Pico Iyer – The Half Known Life. From “one of the most soulful and perceptive writers of our time” (Brain Pickings), The Half Known Life is a journey through competing ideas of paradise to see how we can live more peacefully in an ever more divided and distracted world.
Tuesday, Oct. 29 & Saturday, Nov. 2 Heather Cox Richardson – Democracy Awakening. A vital and urgent call to action about the precarious state of American democracy, charting its historical challenges and current threats, from one of our era’s most important and insightful historians.
Tuesday, Nov. 19 & Saturday, Nov. 23 Billy Collins – Water, Water. In these sixty new poems, Billy Collins mixes the straightforward and the elusive to write about the beauties and ironies of everyday experience. A poem is best, he feels, when it begins in clarity and ends with a whiff of mystery.
Tuesday, Dec. 10 & Saturday, Dec.14 Leif Enger – I Cheerfully Refuse. Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking under sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife.
Saturday, Feb. 11 Antonia Hylton – Madness. Peabody and Emmy award-winning journalist Antonia Hylton chronicles the 93-year history of Crownsville Hospital and the stories of Black families whose mental health suffered as they tried, and sometimes failed, to find safety and dignity.
Tuesday, Mar. 4 & Saturday, Mar. 8 Cat Bohannon – Eve. A myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved, offering a paradigm shift in our thinking about what the female body is, how it came to be, and how this evolution still shapes all our lives today.
Tuesday, Mar. 25 & Saturday, Mar. 29 Percival Everett – James. A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view. James is destined to be a cornerstone of twenty-first century American literature.
Tuesday, April 29 & Saturday, May 3 R.F. Kuang – Yellowface. White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn’t write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American–in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from R.F. Kuang.
Tuesday, May 13 & Saturday, May17 Elizabeth Kolbert/Terry Tempest Williams – H Is For Hope. In twenty-six essays–one for each letter of the alphabet—Elizabeth Kolbert, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction, takes us on a hauntingly illustrated journey through the history of climate change and the uncertainties of our future.
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