19 Aug Telluride Library: Authors Unknown Series Features Craig Child & “The Wild Dark,” 8/21!
Join Telluride’s Wilkinson Public Library on Thursday, August 21st for talk, nay, a performance, by master storyteller Craig Childs about his new book, “The Wild Dark.” Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and there will be food and live music. Craig’s talk starts promptly at 7 p.m., but doors will be locked at 6:59, so be on time!
Note: Everyone who is in their seat by 6:59 gets into a raffle for a copy of “The Wild Dark” (and great esteem for being so punctual).
Craig Childs’s reading is not to be missed. The author of more than a dozen critically acclaimed books on nature, science, and adventure, his work has a way of elevating and astounding his listeners.
A night sky is not an absence of light; it is the presence of the universe.
In “The Wild Dark” Childs embarks on a quest to bike from the blinding lights of the Las Vegas Strip to one of the darkest spots in North America.
Childs is a fearless explorer of both the natural world and the human imagination, making him the perfect guide to help us rediscover the heavens and to ask: “What does it do to us to not see the night sky?”
In a book that is at once an adventure story, a field guide, and a celebration of wonder, Childs invites us all to look up and to look inward, eyes wide and sparkling with stars.
“…In a riveting masterpiece of creative nonfiction, author Craig Childs lifts the essential scientific language about light pollution into an absorbing narrative of adventure, meditation and multicultural exploration of human purpose and meaning…, raved The Utah Review.
“…In Childs’ latest book, ‘The Wild Dark: Finding the Night Sky in the Age of Light,’ the longtime nature writer explores what it means to lose that natural sky, and to reconnect with it on a journey through the American Southwest. I have written about this subject for more than a decade, and I was struck by Childs’ ability to make darkness come alive…,” said Rocky Mountain Reader.
Craig Childs, more:
Craig Childs has published more than a dozen books of adventure, wilderness, and science. He has won the Orion Book Award; the Galen Rowell Art of Adventure Award; the Spirit of the West Award for his body of work; and the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award (3 times).
Childs is a contributing editor at Adventure Journal Quarterly, and his writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Outside, and The New York Times, where he’s been called “a modern-day desert father.”
Childs holds a B.A. in Journalism from CU Boulder with a minor in Women’s Studies, and an M.A. in Desert Studies from Prescott College in Arizona.
He’s taught graduate courses in writing at University of Montana and the MFA programs at University of Alaska and Southern New Hampshire University.
Craig Childs lives in Norwood, Colorado.
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