Elizabeth Kolbert in conversation with Terry Tempest Williams

Name: Elizabeth Kolbert in conversation with Terry Tempest Williams
Start: 2025-05-12T19:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-05-12T21:30:00-04:00
Location: Carnegie Music Hall

Schedule

Mon May 12 2025 at 07:30 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Carnegie Music Hall | Pittsburgh, PA

In H Is for Hope, Elizabeth Kolbert investigates the landscape of climate change–from “A”, for Svante Arrhenius, who created the world’s first climate model in 1894, to “Z”, for the Colorado River Basin, ground zero for climate change in the United States. Along the way she looks at Greta Thunburg’s “blah blah blah” speech (“B”), learns to fly an all-electric plane (“E”), experiments with the effects of extreme temperatures on the human body (“T”), and struggles with the deep uncertainty of the future of climate change (“U”).
Adapted from essays originally published in The New Yorker and beautifully illustrated by Wesley Allsbrook, H Is for Hope is simultaneously inspiring, alarming, and darkly humorous–a unique examination of our changing world.
Elizabeth Kolbert is the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change; The Sixth Extinction, for which she won a Pulitzer Prize, and Under the White Sky: The Nature of the Future. For her work at The New Yorker, where she’s a staff writer, she has received two National Magazine Awards, a National Academies Communication Award, and the Blake-Dodd Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Terry Tempest Williams is the award-winning author of The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks; Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place; Finding Beauty in a Broken World; and When Women Were Birds, among other books. Her work is widely taught and anthologized around the world. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she is currently the Writer-in-Residence at the Harvard Divinity School. She and her husband Brooke Williams divide their time between Cambridge, Massachusetts and Castle Valley, Utah.
Copies of H Is for Hope are available to purchase from White Whale Bookstore. After the lecture, the author will sign books in the Music Hall Foyer.