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Margaret Renkl in Conversation With Mary Laura Philpott

September 27, 2021 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Free
Online, N/A, Portland, OR 97207

For the past four years, Margaret Renkl’s columns have offered readers of The New York Times a weekly dose of natural beauty, human decency, and persistent hope from her home in Nashville. Now more than 60 of those pieces have been brought together in a sparkling new collection from the author of Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss. “People have often asked me how it feels to be the ‘voice of the South,’” writes Renkl in her introduction. “But I’m not the voice of the South, and no one else is, either.” There are many Souths — red and blue, rural and urban, mountain and coast, Black and white and brown — and no one writer could possibly represent all of them. In Graceland, At Last (Milkweed), Renkl writes instead from her own experience about the complexities of her homeland, demonstrating along the way how much more there is to this tangled region than many people understand. In a patchwork quilt of personal and reported essays, Renkl also highlights some other voices of the South, people who are fighting for a better future for the region. A group of teenagers who organized a youth march for Black Lives Matter. An urban shepherd whose sheep remove invasive vegetation. Church parishioners sheltering the homeless. Throughout, readers will find the generosity of spirit and deep attention to the world, human and nonhuman, that keep readers returning to Renkl’s columns each Monday morning. Renkl will be joined in conversation by Mary Laura Philpott, author of I Miss You When I Blink.

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Date:
September 27, 2021
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Cost:
Free
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Online
N/A
Portland, OR 97207

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503-228-4651
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