Arts
As the memoir continues its reign, it has also continued to surprise and captivate us, raising provocative questions about truth, memory, and the different ways we tell the story of ourselves. Novelist Heidi Julavits’s collection of personal essays, The Folded Clock, blends memoir and journal, with wry, minutely-observed meditations on friendship, aging, and the selves we leave behind. And journalist-turned-woodworker Nina MacLaughlin, author of Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter, explores the challenges and freedom she found in a hands-on avocation, one rarely taken on by women. Come join these three masters of the form in a discussion moderated by Megan O’Grady, book critic at Vogue. Sponsored by May K. Houghton.