About this Event
Join the Royall House and Slave Quarters (15 George St, Medford, MA) on November 7th from 12PM to 2PM for a book talk with acclaimed author and journalist Jori Lewis and Boston area author and naturalist Maria Pinto as we celebrate Lewis’ new book .
A Natural History of the Spirits is a compilation of essays that blends natural history, spiritual inquiry, cultural and political investigation, folklore, myth, and personal history, inspired by her experiences in her adopted country of Senegal and her native United States.
Signed copies will be available for purchase.
Participants:
Jori Lewis writes narrative nonfiction that explores how people interact with their environments. Her reports and essays have been published in The Atlantic, Orion Magazine, and The New York Review of Books, among others, and she is the editor in chief of Adi Magazine, a literary magazine of global politics. The author of Slaves for Peanuts (winner of a Whiting Award, a Silvers Grant, a James Beard Award, and the Harriet Tubman Prize), Lewis splits her time between Illinois and Senegal.
Maria Pinto is a Boston area author and naturalist. She leads regular fungal forays at Arnold Arboretum, and her writing has appeared in Science, Arnoldia, and Orion, where she’s a contributing editor. Her book of lyric essays inspired by fungi, Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival was shortlisted for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, is a Massachusetts Book Award honoree, and was the recipient of the Don Kissel Prize for Nonfiction.
Event venue & nearby stays
Royall House and Slave Quarters, 15 George Street, Medford, United States
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