Michael Loughran with Jeannie Vanasco: WINDOWER

The best memoirs are not just an account of a single life, but a guide to how to live. Michael Loughran gives us this gift in Windower, a memoir of grief, an account of the years before and after losing his wife to suicide, a document of love's impossible forms. It's a vital book about being human amid loss, about how to go on in this devastating and beautiful world.

Memoirist Jeannie Vanasco will join Michael in conversation in a perfect pairing-- Jeannie's new memoir, A Silent Treatment, explores the loneliness and isolation of silence as punishment, and where love lives amidst it. Mark your calendars for a night of reflection and insight.

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Michael Loughran's work has appeared in Boston Review, Indiana Review, Harvard Review, Tin House, and elsewhere. He lives in Philadelphia and teaches at the Community College of Philadelphia. Windower is his first book.

Jeannie Vanasco is the author of the memoirs A Silent Treatment, Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl, and The Glass Eye. She lives in Baltimore and is an associate professor of English at Towson University.

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