David Giffels is the author of six books of nonfiction, including the upcoming Barnstorming Ohio: To Understand America, the memoirs Furnishing Eternity and All the Way Home. Chautauqua Writers’ Festival Director Lillian-Yvonne Bertram is the author of But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise.

Join fellow readers to discuss this week’s Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle selection, The End of Ice by Dahr Jamail. Conversation is facilitated by CLSC staff and a member of the Chautauqua community. All readers welcome.

Originally from Buffalo, Dr. Lillian-Yvonne Bertram is the author of But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise, chosen by Claudia Rankine as winner of the 2010 Red Hen Press Benjamin Saltman Award, a slice from the cake made of air (Red Hen, 2016) and Personal Science...

Like no other book, The End of Ice offers a firsthand chronicle of the catastrophic reality of our situation and the incalculable necessity of relishing this vulnerable, fragile planet while we still can.

David Giffels is the author of six books of nonfiction, including the upcoming Barnstorming Ohio: To Understand America, the memoirs Furnishing Eternity and All the Way Home, both winners of the Ohioana Book Award, and The Hard Way on Purpose...

Jacob White is an assistant professor at Ithaca College. His story collection Being Dead in South Carolina was published by Leapfrog Press in 2013. Mary Biddinger is the author of six full-length poetry collections, including a new book of prose poems, Partial Genius (Black Lawrence Press, 2019). 

Join fellow readers to discuss this week’s Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle selection, A Nail the Evening Hans On by Monica Sok. Conversation is facilitated by CLSC staff and a member of the Chautauqua community. All readers welcome.

Mary Biddinger is the author of six full-length poetry collections, including a new book of prose poems, Partial Genius (Black Lawrence Press, 2019).

In her debut collection, Monica Sok uses poetry to reshape a family's memory about the Khmer Rouge regime—memory that is both real and imagined—according to a child of refugees.

Jacob White is an assistant professor at Ithaca College. His story collection Being Dead in South Carolina was published by Leapfrog Press in 2013.

Gabrielle Calvocoressi is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart, Apocalyptic Swing, and Rocket Fantastic, winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. Eleanor Henderson is the author of the novels The Twelve-Mile Straight and Ten Thousand Saints, which was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2011 by The New York Times.

Join fellow readers to discuss this week’s Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle selection, The Source of Self-Regard by Toni Morrison. Conversation is facilitated by CLSC staff and a member of the Chautauqua community. All readers welcome.

Gabrielle Calvocoressi is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart, Apocalyptic Swing (a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize), and Rocket Fantastic, winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry.

Here is Toni Morrison in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades.

Eleanor Henderson is the author of the novels The Twelve-Mile Straight and Ten Thousand Saints, which was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2011 by The New York Times and was adapted into a movie starring Ethan Hawke.

Janice Eidus, twice winner of the O.Henry Prize as well as a Pushcart Prize, is a novelist, short story writer, essayist, and freelance editor/writing coach. Among her novels are The War Of The Rosens; Urban Bliss; and, The Last Jewish Virgin; her short story collections include Vito Loves Geraldine and The Celibacy Club.

Join fellow readers to discuss this week’s Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle selection, Infinite Detail by Tim Maughan. Conversation is facilitated by CLSC staff and a member of the Chautauqua community. All readers welcome.

A timely and uncanny portrait of a world in the wake of fake news, diminished privacy, and a total shutdown of the Internet.

Janice Eidus, twice winner of the O.Henry Prize as well as a Pushcart Prize, is a novelist, short story writer, essayist, and freelance editor/writing coach.

Charlotte Matthews' works include a novel, The Collapsible Mannequin, a memoir, Comes with Furniture and People (2019) and three poetry collections. Philip Metres is the author of ten books, including Shrapnel Maps (Copper Canyon 2020), Sand Opera (Alice James 2015), and The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance (2018).