Celebrate the Release of Donna Seaman’s New Memoir, River of Books

On Wednesday, Dec. 4^th at 6:30 PM The Book Stall (811 Elm Street in Winnetka) hosts renowned Booklist editor Donna Seaman as we celebrate the release of her new memoir, River of Books. She will be joined in conversation by Miles Harvey, author of the recently published The Registry of Forgotten Objects. Kirkus says, "A 'constant reader' who generously advocates for a wide diet of literature, from novels to poetry to narrative nonfiction to essays and all that lie between, Seaman counsels that 'the more varied our reading, the more detailed, intricate, and vital our perceptions become.' A lively and entertaining contribution to the shelf of books about books.”

This event is free with registration, please CLICK HERE to register.  

More About the Book: With the infectious curiosity of an inveterate bibliophile and the prose of a fine stylist, Donna Seaman charts the course of her early reading years in a book-by-book chronicle of the significance books have held in her life. River of Books recounts Seaman's journey in becoming an editor for Booklist, a reviewer, an author, and a literary citizen, and lays bare how she nourished both body and soul in working with books. Seaman makes palpable the power and self-recognition that she discovered in a life dedicated to reading.

More About the Author: Donna Seaman is the adult books editor at Booklist, a member of the Content Leadership Team for the American Writers Museum, and a recipient of the Louis Shore Award for excellence in book reviewing, the James Friend Memorial Award for Literary Criticism, and the Studs Terkel Humanities Service Award. Seaman has written for the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and other publications. She has been a writer-in-residence for Columbia College Chicago and has taught at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago. Seaman created the anthology In Our Nature: Stories of Wildness, her author interviews are collected in Writers on the Air: Conversations about Books, and she is the author of Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists.

Conversation Partner Miles Harvey is the author of The King of Confidence (a NY Times Book Review Editors’ Choice selection that was also longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Award for Excellence in Nonfiction), Painter in a Savage Land, and The Island of Lost Maps. He teaches creative writing at DePaul University in Chicago, where he chairs the Department of English and is a founding editor of Big Shoulders Books, a nonprofit, social-justice publisher. The Registry of Forgotten Objects is his first work of fiction. Christine Sneed says of this new volume, “The stories in this extraordinary collection feature … electric currents of the mischievous and the comedic—the stories of George Saunders and Charles Baxter came to mind.” For more info, visit www.milesharvey.com.