Tuesday July 18
7:00 Emlen Hall at The Bay School

17 Bay School Road
Blue Hill, Maine 0461

Co-sponsored by Word. Blue Hill Literary Arts Festival

 

Two award-winning novelists—one who had an asteroid named after him, another whose last novel shut down technology—will chat onstage in Blue Hill Tuesday, July 18, at 7 p.m. The event, co-sponsored by Word. Blue Hill Literary Arts Festival, is free and open to the public.

Visiting the area with the Authors Guild, celebrated science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson will appear in conversation with bestselling novelist and Blue Hill summer residentJonathan Lethem.

 

 

Kim Stanley Robinson is the author of 22 novels, including the internationally bestselling Mars trilogy and more recently Red Moon, New York 2140, and The Ministry for the Future. He was part of the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers’ Program in 1995 and 2016, and a featured speaker at COP-26 in Glasgow as a guest of the United Kingdom and the United Nations. His work has been translated into 28 languages, and has won awards including the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards.

 

photo: Amy Maloof

 

Jonathan Lethem, an essayist and short story writer as well as a novelist, is best known for his 1999 novel Motherless Brooklyn. In 2005, he received a MacArthur Fellowship. His most recent novel, The Arrest, set in rural Maine, is the story of what happens when much of what we take for granted—cars, guns, computers, and airplanes, for starters—quits working.