Castle Hill Author Talks
Join us for a series of provocative and entertaining discussions with some of today’s most talented and creative authors. In a series of live, one-hour events, host Karen Dukess, author of The Last Book Party, will interview acclaimed, debut, and award-winning authors of fiction and non-fiction about their new books and their paths to publication. Available individually or as a series, the interviews will include time for questions from the audience. Events are FREE although donations greatly appreciated!
Tuesday, July 30th, 6pm
Join Karen Dukess in conversation with Ben Shattuck
Ben Shattuck is the author of Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau, which was a New Yorker Best Book of 2022, a Wall Street Journal Best Book of Spring, a New York Times Best Book of Summer, and a New England Indie Bestseller. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and winner of the PEN America Short Story Prize and a Pushcart Prize. His forthcoming book of stories, The History of Sound, will be published in July 2024. He is also the director and founder of the Cuttyhunk Island Writers’ Residency.
Book info: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/703118/the-history-of-sound-by-ben-shattuck/
About the host
Karen Dukess is the author of The Last Book Party, "a spare, bittersweet page-turner (NYTimes)," which was an IndieNext and Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick. She has been a tour guide in the former Soviet Union, a newspaper reporter in Florida, a magazine publisher in Russia and a speechwriter on gender equality for the United Nations Development Programme. She has blogged on raising boys for The Huffington Post and written book reviews for USA Today. She has a degree in Russian Studies from Brown University and a Master's in Journalism from Columbia University. She lives with her family near New York City and spends as much time as possible in Truro
Join Ben for a workshop at Castle Hill!