Speaker Series: Dylan Thuras

Schedule

Thu, 13 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

45 Main St, Newtown, CT, United States, Connecticut 06470 | Newtown, CT

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A three-time New York Times-bestselling author, including the #1 bestseller Atlas Obscura, Dylan Thuras is a leading expert in travel and dining known for his creative and welcoming approach to exploration.
Thuras is the co-founder of AtlasObscura.com, the comprehensive travel database for those looking for a unique travel experience, which gets over 8 million visits a month. Since launching in 2009, Atlas Obscura has become one of the most influential travel publications of the last two decades.
A passionate and friendly speaker, Dylan Thuras instills a sense of adventure in his audiences, emphasizing the value of exploring close to home, in small museums, and at outsider art projects. As host of the Emmy Award-winning show Small Town, Big Story, Thuras has traveled to dozens of small towns across the U.S. and beyond–from a Lumberjack Championships in Wisconsin to a Sand Castle building competition in Texas (where he won third place), to a pepper eating contest in Hatch, New Mexico.
Thuras graduated from Bennington College in 2004 with a B.A. in Film, Writing, Animation, and Visual Arts. Thuras’s work has been featured on Slate, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Men’s Health, and National Public Radio, where the NPR CEO called it “Absolutely brilliant.” He is a regular speaker at conferences ranging from SXSW to the New Yorker Festival.
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45 Main St, Newtown, CT, United States, Connecticut 06470

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