RESCHEDULED FROM SEPT.- Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks—a Cool History of a Hot Commodity.
Tuesday, December 127:00—8:00 PMVIRTUAL PROGRAM - Peabody Institute Library, 15 Sylvan Street, Danvers, MA 01923 - 978-774-0554
RESCHEDULED FROM SEPTEMBER 27
We are so excited to welcome Amy Brady and Tajja Isen for a conversation about the essay anthology they co-edited, The World as We Knew It: Dispatches from a Changing Climate and Brady's new book, Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks—a Cool History of a Hot Commodity.
Amy Brady is the executive director of Orion magazine and co-editor of The World as We Knew It: Dispatches from a Changing Climate. Brady has published widely on how the climate crisis continues to influence art and culture and has made appearances on the BBC, NPR, and PBS. She holds a PhD in literature and American studies and has won writing and research awards from the National Science Foundation, the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, and the Library of Congress. Learn more about Amy Brady.
Tajja Isen is the author of the essay collection Some of My Best Friends, named a Best Book of the Year by outlets including Electric Literature, The Globe and Mail, and CBC Books. She is the co-editor of the anthology The World as We Knew It: Dispatches from a Changing Climate and has also edited for Catapult and The Walrus. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Time, Vulture, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn. Learn more about Tajja Isen.
About the book Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks—A Cool History of a Hot Commodity
Journalist, and historian, Amy Brady, shares the two-hundred-year old history of ice in America and explores how this "hot commodity"has become ubiquitous in American culture. Her book is told in four parts: birth of an obsession, ice in food and drink, sports history, and the role ice plays in our future.
About the book The World as We Knew It: Dispatches from a Changing Climate
An anthology from literary writers around the world who share their reflections on how climate change has altered the world they once knew. Including essays by Lydia Millet, Alexandra Kleeman, Omar El Akkad and others.
Presented in collaboration with the Cary Memorial Library of Lexington and other area libraries.