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Taking as starting points five Thoreauvian aperçus, George Howe Colt will discuss lessons learned from a half-century of writing, touching on such topics as how a reader becomes a writer, what it means to write from the inside out, how to see the forest and the trees, and what happens when two writers marry.

The Write Connection at Thoreau Farm: A Program in Partnership with the Thoreau Society

This combination talk and reading will explore the increasingly urgent challenge of writing about the natural world in a time of rapid climate change. We’ll explore how such writing can challenge Western notions of community, narrative, context, and scale, attitudes toward “the other,” and the role of uncertainties. Hurd will also do a short reading from her latest book The Epilogues and discuss the evolution of this hybrid collection.