The annual Haystack Book Festival, a program of the Norfolk Foundation, brings together writers and thinkers to explore new ideas in literature and the arts.
FALL 2023
September 29th
September 30th
October 1st
FRIday, september 29th
Writing Lives
4:00 PM at The Norfolk Library
Ada Calhoun, author of Also a Poet; Frank O’Hara, My Father and Me and Priscilla Gilman, author of The Critics Daughter: A Memoir
In conversation with novelist and memoirist, Courtney Maum.
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FRIday, september 29th
Brendan Gill Lecture
6:00 PM at The Norfolk Library
Susanna Moore, author of The Lost Wife: A Novel
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Saturday, September 30th
On the Use and Abuse of Religion for Life
10:30 AM at The Norfolk Library
Elizabeth Bucar, author of Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation
In conversation with Bob Smietana, author of Reorganized Religion: The Reshaping of the American Church and Why it Matters
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Saturday, September 30th
INSPIRED BY THE LEGACY OF ANNE GARRELS
A Conversation About Covering Conflict
1:00 PM at The Norfolk Library
George Packer, author of The Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
In conversation with Elizabeth Becker, author of You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War
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Saturday, September 30th
Liberalism and Resentment: Political Ideas and Emotions
3:00 PM at The Norfolk Library
Robert Schneider, author of
The Return of Resentment: The Rise and Decline and Rise Again of a Political Emotion
In conversation with Samuel Moyn, author of
Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times
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Sunday, october 1st
Birding Through Great Mountain Forest
8:00 AM at Mountain House
200 Canaan Mountain Road, Falls Village
NOTE: LOCATION HAS CHANGED
Early morning bird watch at Great Mountain Forest with Eileen Fielding, Director, Sharon Audubon Center
Meet at Mountain House, 200 Canaan Mountain Road, Falls Village, CT. Park only in the area to the left of the barn or along the road, north of the West Gate.
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED: - Limited to 20 people.
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Sunday, october 1st
A Look at Contemporary America by Traveling Through History
11:00 AM at The Norfolk Library
Neil King Jr. author of American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal
In conversation with Rinker Buck, author of Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure
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Sunday, october 1st
How the Changing Landscape Touches Us All - Humans and Non-Humans Alike
1:30 PM at The Norfolk Library
Carl Safina author of Alfie & Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe
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