Glyn Vincent-Crossing: A True Story

Name: Glyn Vincent-Crossing: A True Story
Start: 2025-09-12T18:00:00-04:00
Location: 8 Broadway, Newport, RI, United States, Rhode Island 02840

Schedule

Fri, 12 Sep, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

8 Broadway, Newport, RI, United States, Rhode Island 02840 | Newport, RI

Join us for an evening with NY based journalist and author Glyn Vincent to discuss his new book CROSSING: A TRUE STORY, "In this gripping memoir a perilous sail across the Atlantic takes on added dimensions when the author's troubled family past is revealed."
This event is free and open to the public, we kindly ask you to RSVP and share with your friends!
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In early Spring of 2022, the author boarded a 52-foot sailboat to cross the Atlantic with a close friend and a captain and sailor he did not know.
From the start of the 2,600-mile trip, from St. Martin in the Caribbean to the Azores off Portugal, things went awry—with the captain, the boat, the weather and, most precipitously, the author’s state of mind. As a recreational sailor with no experience of being out of sight of land, the author’s darkest fears materialized as the small crew sailed through squalls then gales and, finally, a tropical storm with near-hurricane force winds.
In Crossing, Glyn Vincent explores why he ventured into the middle of the ocean in the first place, and how he first fell in love with the sea. He describes his unsettled childhood in New York City, his parents’ tabloid existence (his mother was the Broadway and television actress Betsy von Furstenberg) and the itinerant, unstable lives of his grandparents and great-grandparents, whose troubled history goes back on his mother’s side to a Gothic castle in Germany and on his father’s side to an orphanage in Alexandria, Egypt, and a massacre in Damascus in 1860.
In the end, this enthralling memoir is as much about the storm Vincent inherited and harbored within, as it is about the one he encountered at sea.
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Glyn Vincent is a New York based journalist and author of The Unknown Night, a critically acclaimed biography of the American artist R.A. Blakelock. A finalist for the National Magazine Award, his articles and reviews have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, The New York Observer, The Paris Review, Columbia Magazine, The Huffington Post and many other publications. He has appeared on New York Public Radio and lectured across the country. A graduate of Harvard and Columbia University School of Journalism, he is active in local environmental organizations on Long Island where he also sails and saltwater fly fishes.