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The Mount: 2024 Summer Lectures and Discussions

Arts and Culture, Literature, Lectures, and Talks

August 6 | 11:00 am - 1:00 pm  

$25 – $30

For more than 30 years, the Summer Lecture Series has brought insightful presentations highlighting recent works of memoir and biography to The Mount. After a successful launch of the Masters Series last summer, author André Bernard, former Vice President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, will return for a second season of conversations with literary masters, all unquestionably at the top of their game!

August 2 at 5:00 pm: Rosanne Cash – Composed
August 5 at 4:00 pm and August 5 at 11:00 am: Safiya Sinclair – How to Say Babylon: A Memoir
August 9 at 5:00 pm: Jonathan Alter – His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, A Life
August 12 at 4:00 pm and August 12 at 11:00 am: Deborah Cohen – Last Call at the Hotel Imperial
August 19 at 4:00 pm and August 20 at 11:00 am: Charlotte Gray – Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons
August 26 at 4:00 pm and August 27 at 11:00 am: Brenda Wineapple – Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial that Riveted a Nation
August 30 at 5:oo pm: Michael Pollan – This is Your Mind on Plants

The Mount and its glorious gardens

Venue Details:

The Mount, Edith Wharton's Home

2 Plunkett Street
Lenox, MA 01240 United States
Phone:
(413) 551-5111

Host Details:

The Mount, Edith Wharton's Home

Phone:
(413) 551-5111
Email:
[email protected]
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