This is the first of three sessions featuring The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick:
“In Maine” (1971)
Special Guests: New York Times best-selling author and long-time summer resident of Castine, Lee Smith has orchestrated a prolific career writing both fiction and creative nonfiction, including her memoir Dimestore: A Writer’s Life. Lee joined Village Reads last summer as our “Readers and Writers in Conversation” inaugural guest to discuss her April 2020 publication of the novella Blue Marlin.
Lee’s partner, Hal Crowther, is a journalist, critic, and essayist whose work has appeared in periodicals including Time, Newsweek, The Oxford American, Granta, and other independent weeklies around the country. His wide-ranging essays on politics and media have earned him vast critical acclaim, including the Independent Publisher Book Award for Essay/Creative Non-Fiction.