Book Talk: Joan Wickersham
When:
Saturday, Mar 15, 2025 1:00p -
2:00p
Saturday, Mar 15, 2025 1:00p -
2:00p
Where:
Scandinavian Cultural Center & Library
206 Waltham St
West Newton, MA 02465
Admission:
FREE
Hosted by:
Categories:
Accessible Spots, Good for Groups, Lectures & Conferences, Rainy Day Ideas
Event website:
https://scandicenter.org/event/book-talk-joan-wickersham/
Join us for a book talk with author Joan Wickersham as she discusses her book No Ship Sets Out To Be A Shipwreck. In this nonfiction/poetry hybrid, Wickersham meditates on a Swedish warship Vasa, which sank only minutes into its maiden voyage and lay forgotten underwater until it was found and raised more than three hundred years later.
No Ship Sets Out To Be A Shipwreck is a contemplative, strange, passionate, funny, and haunting book that both is and isn’t about the ship – a personal yet universal reckoning with mortality, and the question of what vanishes and what endures.
Saturday March 15th | 1pm | Free with registration | Tickets
FREE books will be available
ABOUT JOAN: In addition to No Ship Sets Out To Be A Shipwreck, Joan Wickersham is the author of The News from Spain and The Suicide Index, a finalist for the National Book Award. Her work has been published in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Nonrequired Reading, as well as many magazines. She is a regular contributor to The Boston Globe, where her op-ed column has been running for the past 15 years.
