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

FREE books will be available

ABOUT JOAN: In addition to No Ship Sets Out To Be A Shipwreck, 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.

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