Where:
Porter Square Books
25 White St
Cambridge, MA 02140
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Art
Event website:
https://www.portersquarebooks.com/event/richard-hoffman-sven-birkerts-remembering-alchemists-and-other-essays
Porter Square Books is delighted to welcome Richard Hoffman, author of Remembering the Alchemists and Other Essays, to the store for a conversation with Sven Birkerts. This event will take place on Tuesday, January 17 at 7pm at Porter Square Books (25 White St. Cambridge, MA 02140). RSVP here to let us know you're coming!
Remembering the Alchemists is an intense, passionate, and moving collection of personal essays that never loses sight of the moral issues it raises. At times thoughtful and wise and at other times a cri de cœur, it is held together by the experienced voice of an essayist at the top of his game. Richard Hoffman speaks softly, even reverently, in the presence of art and the natural world, but addressing militarism, war, and violence against children, he speaks with urgency and earnest questioning. Several of these essays ask how it is that we seem to have given up on ourselves, and what it might take to turn the cascading traumas of history into compassion for one another and lessons for the future.