JOIN US on NOVEMBER 8TH at 7pm to hear authors Elizabeth Rush, Bathsheba Demuth, and Elizabeth Bradfield read from their respective books and foster a discussion around the our earth's changing climate!

The reading and discussion will be followed by an audience Q&A and book signing.

LEARN ABOUT THE BOOKS:

RISING: DISPATCHES FROM THE NEW AMERICAN SHORE by Elizabeth Rush (Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction):

With every passing day, and every record-breaking hurricane, it grows clearer that climate change is neither imagined nor distant―and that rising seas are transforming the coastline of the United States in irrevocable ways. In Rising, Elizabeth Rush guides readers through some of the places where this change has been most dramatic, from the Gulf Coast to Miami, and from New York City to the Bay Area. For many of the plants, animals, and humans in these places, the options are stark: retreat or perish in place.

FLOATING COAST: AN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY OF THE BERING STRAIT by Bathsheba Demuth:

A groundbreaking exploration of the relationship between capitalism, communism, and Arctic ecology since the dawn of the industrial age.

Whales and walruses, caribou and fox, gold and oil: through the stories of these animals and resources, Bathsheba Demuth reveals how people have turned ecological wealth in a remote region into economic growth and state power for more than 150 years.

TOWARD ANTARCTICA: POEMS by Elizabeth Bradfield

Poet-naturalist documents and queries her work as a guide on ships in Antarctica, offering an incisive insider’s vision that challenges traditional tropes of The Last Continent. Inspired by haibun, a stylistic form of Japanese poetry invented by 17th-century poet, Matsuo Bashō to chronicle his journeys in remote Japan, Bradfield uses photographs, compressed prose, and short poems to examine our relationship to remoteness, discovery, expertise, awe, labor, temporary societies, “pure” landscapes, and tourism’s service economy.

LEARN ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

*ELIZABETH RUSH* is the author of Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction. Her work has been supported through grants from the National Science Foundation, National Geographic, the Howard Foundation, and the Andrew Mellon Foundation. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island where she teaches creative nonfiction at Brown University.

*BATHSHEBA DEMUTH* is an environmental historian, specializing in the lands and seas of the Russian and North American Arctic. Her interest in northern environments and cultures began when she was 18 and moved to the village of Old Crow in the Yukon. For over two years, she mushed huskies, hunted caribou, fished for salmon, tracked bears, and otherwise learned to survive in the taiga and tundra. In the years since, she has visited Arctic communities across Eurasia and North America. From the archive to the dog sled, she is interested in how the histories of people, ideas, places, and non-human species intersect.

*ELIZABETH BRADFIELD* is an naturalist and the author of the poetry collections Once Removed, Approaching Ice, Interpretive Work and Toward Antarctica which combines her photographs with brief, hybrid essays. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, Kenyon Review, Poetry, The Atlantic Monthly, and elsewhere. Founder and editor-in-chief of Broadsided Press, she works as a naturalist/guide locally as well as on expedition ships, teaches creative writing at Brandeis University, and lives on Cape Cod with her partner. www.ebradfield.com