The annual Haystack Book Festival is scheduled for October 4th through the 6th at the Norfolk Library in Norfolk Connecticut. This event strives to stimulate conversations between writers and thinkers and to explore ideas in literature, life, and the arts.
Highlights of this event include conversations with six authors, a walk in Great Mountain Forest on October 6th, and a special program for children that same day at 1:30 p.m. when Sarah Maslin Nir talks about her book series, Once Upon a Horse. During the program, middle school children will receive free copies of her latest book, Star Horse. Nir, author of Horse Crazy and an investigative reporter with the New York Times, has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize two times for her work. On Sunday at 11 a.m. David Chaffetz, whose area of specialty includes Iranian, Indian, and Chinese history will discuss how the horse-shaped civilization while Nir focuses on the emotional connection modern humans share with animals.
Other authors that are also participating in this event include Marina Harss, author of The Boy from Kyiv: Alexei Ratmansky’s Life in Ballet with Mindy Aloff, author of Why Dance Matters; Brendan Gill Lecture speaker Gillian Linden, author of Negative Space: A Novel Michael Korda, author of Muse of Fire: WWI as Seen Through the Lives of the Soldier Poets with Simon Winchester, author of Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic; William Egginton, author of The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality with Samuel Moyn, author of Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times and Noah Charney, author of These Trees Tell a Story: The Art of Reading Landscapes with Mike Zarfos, executive director of Great Mountain Forest.
For more information https://norfolklibrary.org/haystack-book-festival
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