Central Library
Tuesday, April 01, 2008 7:00 PM
JONATHAN ROSEN
In conversation with Jennifer Price, Environmental Writer
The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature
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.
Directions/Parking: Unless otherwise indicated, ALOUD programs take place at the Los Angeles Central Library's Mark Taper Auditorium,
630 W. Fifth Street, Los Angeles, CA 90071.
