Central Library
Tuesday, April 01, 2008 7:00 PM
JONATHAN ROSEN
The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature
ShareIn conversation with Jennifer Price, Environmental Writer
Rosen, novelist and New York Times contributor, sets out to explore birdwatching's centrality—historical and literary, spiritual and scientific—to a culture torn between the desire both to conquer and to conserve.
Jonathan Rosen is the author of The Talmud and The Internet: A Journey between Worlds and the novels Eve's Apple and Joy Comes in the Morning: A Novel. His essays have appeared in The New York Times and The New Yorker. He is the editorial director of Nextbook.
Jenny Price is a writer whose work focuses on the L.A. environment. Author of Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America, she has published in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, L.A. Weekly, Audubon, Believer, and Good, and is a regular contributor to the Native Intelligence column on LA Observed. She has written often about the Los Angeles River and gives frequent tours. A 2005-6 Guggenheim Fellow and two-time NEH Fellow, she has a Ph.D. in history from Yale University, and has been a Research Scholar at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women since 1999. She lives in Venice Beach, and is working on a new book, Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in L.A.
