Summer Lecture Series

  • Forever Seeing Beauties by Eve Kahn
  • Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener by Kimberly A. Hamlin
  • All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf by Katharine Smyth
  • Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Nicholas A. Basbanes
  • My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir by Jenn Shapland
  • Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter by Kerri K. Greenidge
  • The Sun and Her Stars: Salka Viertel and Hitler's Exiles in the Golden Age of Hollywood by Donna Rifkind
  • The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War

We have made the difficult decision to cancel this year’s in-person lecture series. However, we are delighted to offer free online conversations with each of our eight planned authors in a new program we’re calling DISCOURSE & PROCESS CHATS (June 8 – July 27). Moderated by Julie Scelfo, past Lecture Series presenter and author of The Women Who Made New York, these conversations will provide insight into each author’s book and their research and writing process.

You can also listen to audio recordings from each author, introducing the subject of their book. Scroll down to get started.

DISCOURSE & PROCESS CHATS

Listen as our authors introduce their books to you!

Books featured may be purchased  from The Bookstore in Lenox. Matt will arrange for shipping or a curbside pick-up.