Previously, she was the book critic for New York, the editor of the environmental magazine Grist, and a reporter and editor at The Santiago Times, in Santiago, Chile. In 2016, she won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing for “The Really Big One,” her story on seismic risk in the Pacific Northwest. Kathryn Schulz is a staff writer at The New Yorker. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Magazine, and lives in Suffolk, England. Her book H is for Hawk won many prizes, including the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, the Costa Book of the Year, the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger in France, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction. Helen Macdonald is a writer, poet, naturalist and historian of science. She writes with heart-tugging clarity about wild boar, swifts, mushroom hunting, migraines, the strangeness of birds' nests, and the unexpected guidance and comfort we find when watching wildlife.īy one of this century's most important and insightful nature writers, Vesper Flights is a captivating and foundational book about observation, fascination, time, memory, love and loss and how we make sense of the world around us. Meditating on notions of captivity and freedom, immigration and flight, Helen invites us into her most intimate experiences: observing the massive migration of songbirds from the top of the Empire State Building, watching tens of thousands of cranes in Hungary, seeking the last golden orioles in Suffolk's poplar forests. In Vesper Flights Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays, along with new pieces on topics ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep.

Books will be available prior to the event, once signed books have arrived.*Īnimals don't exist in order to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves. The signed book included in your ticket can be shipped or picked up, simply choose your preferred method at check out. An entry link will be emailed to ticket holders in the week of the event. Porter Square Books is pleased to present a virtual talk with Helen Macdonald, author of H Is For Hawk, for the release of her new book V esper Flights, in conversation with Kathryn Schulz! *This virtual event is ticketed, and your ticket includes a signed copy of the book.*

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