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SUMMARY:Winter Words with Lily King
DESCRIPTION:Join acclaimed author Lily King (“Writers & Lovers\,” “Euphoria”) as she discusses her latest novel\, “Heart the Lover\,” an instant New York Times bestseller. Written with the superb wit and emotional sensitivity fans of King have come to adore\, “Heart the Lover” is a deeply moving story that celebrates love\, friendship and the transformative nature of forgiveness. The novel is King at her very best\, affirming her as an astute chronicler of the human experience and one of the finest novelists at work today. \nModerated by Mitzi Rapkin \nAbout the Author \n\n\n\nLily King is the award-winning author of six novels\, including most recently\, “Heart the Lover.” She has also published a collection of short stories\, “Five Tuesdays in Winter.” Her 2020 novel\, “Writers & Lovers\,” won the New England Society Book Awards and was a New York Times Notable Book and chosen as a top-10 best book of 2020 by The Washington Post\, NPR\, People Magazine and The Los Angeles Times. Her 2014 novel\, “Euphoria\,” won the Kirkus Award\, the New England Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Award. “Euphoria” was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2014 by The New York Times Book Review. It was included in TIME’s Top 10 Fiction Books of 2014\, as well as on Amazon\, NPR\, Entertainment Weekly\, Publishers Weekly and Salon’s Best Books of 2014.
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/winter-words-lily-king-2026/
LOCATION:Paepcke Auditorium\, 1000 N 3rd St.\, Aspen\, CO\, 81611\, United States
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SUMMARY:Winter Words with Susan Orlean
DESCRIPTION:Bestselling author and beloved New Yorker writer Susan Orlean will discuss “Joyride\,” a magic carpet ride through her life and career. The book is also a time machine to a bygone era of journalism\, from Orlean’s bright start in the golden age of alt-weeklies to her career-making days working alongside icons such as Tina Brown\, David Remnick\, Anna Wintour and other forces who shaped the media industry as we know it today. “Joyride” is a must-read for anyone who hungers to start\, build and sustain a creative life. Orlean inspires us to seek out daily inspiration and rediscover the marvels that surround us. \nModerated by Christine Benedetti \nAbout the Author \n\n\n\n\nSusan Orlean is the New York Times bestselling author of “Joyride\,” “The Library Book\,” “Rin Tin Tin\,” “Saturday Night\,” “The Orchid Thief\,” which was made into the Academy Award–winning film “Adaptation\,” and other books. She has been called “a national treasure” by TheWashington Post and “a latter-day Tocqueville” by The New York Times. Her deeply moving explorations of American stories both familiar and obscure have earned her a reputation as one of America’s most distinctive journalistic voices. A staff writer for The New Yorker for over 30 years and a former contributing editor at Rolling Stone and Vogue\, she has been praised as “an exceptional essayist” (Publishers Weekly) and a writerwho “approaches her subjects with intense curiosity and fairness” (Bookmarks).
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/winter-words-susan-orlean-2026/
LOCATION:Paepcke Auditorium\, 1000 N 3rd St.\, Aspen\, CO\, 81611\, United States
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SUMMARY:Winter Words with Lauren Groff
DESCRIPTION:Lauren Groff will be in conversation discussing her most recent novel “The Vaster Wilds\,”  which plunges readers into colonial America’s wilderness through the eyes of a young servant girl fleeing the famine of Jamestown. As she navigates nature’s brutal beauty and the edges of survival\, Groff crafts an electrifying exploration of resilience\, self-discovery\, and the precarious line between civilization and wildness. \n\nModerated by Mitzi Rapkin \n\n\nAbout the Author \n\n\n\n\nLauren Groff is a three-time National Book Award finalist and The New York Times–bestselling author of the novels “The Monsters of Templeton\,” “Arcadia\, Fates and Furies\, Matrix” and “The Vaster Wilds\,” and the celebrated short story collections “Delicate Edible Birds and Florida.” She has won The Story Prize\, the ABA Indies’ Choice Award\, France’s Grand Prix de l’Héroïne and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize and has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her work regularly appears in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic and elsewhere. Her work has been translated into thirty-six languages. She lives in Gainesville\, Florida.
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/winter-words-with-lauren-groff/
LOCATION:Paepcke Auditorium\, 1000 N 3rd St.\, Aspen\, CO\, 81611\, United States
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SUMMARY:Winter Words with Ayad Akhtar
DESCRIPTION:Step into a thrilling exploration of AI\, art\, and the human psyche with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar as he unveils his new play\, McNeal. This event will feature Akhtar discussing his most recent broadway debut and an actor delivering a live reading from the play\, offering a glimpse into the story of Jacob McNeal—a novelist at odds with his own AI obsession— as he grapples with the limits of creativity and the haunting possibilities of artificial intelligence. \nModerated by Maurice (Mo) LaMee \n\n\nAbout the Author\nAkhtar is a novelist and playwright. His work has been published and performed in over two dozen languages. He is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama\, the Edith Wharton Citation of Merit for Fiction and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Akhtar is the author of “Homeland Elegies” (Little\, Brown & Co.)\, which The Washington Post called “a tour de force” and The New York Times called “a beautiful novel…that had echoes of “The Great Gatsby” and that circles\, with pointed intellect\, the possibilities and limitations of American life.” His first novel\, “American Dervish” (Little\, Brown & Co.)\, was published in over 20 languages. As a playwright\, he has written “Junk” (Lincoln Center\, Broadway; Kennedy Prize for American Drama\, Tony nomination); “Disgraced” (Lincoln Center\, Broadway; Pulitzer Prize for Drama\, Tony nomination); “The Who & The What” (Lincoln Center); and “The Invisible Hand” (NYTW; Obie Award\, Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award\, Olivier and Evening Standard nominations). Among other honors\, Akhtar is the recipient of the Steinberg Playwrighting Award\, the Nestroy Award\, the Erwin Piscator Award\, as well as fellowships from the American Academy in Rome\, MacDowell\, the Sundance Institute and Yaddo\, where he serves as a Board Director. In 2021\, Akhtar was named the New York State Author\, succeeding Colson Whitehead\, by the New York State Writers Institute.
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/ayad-akhtar-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Paepcke Auditorium\, 1000 N 3rd St.\, Aspen\, CO\, 81611\, United States
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SUMMARY:Winter Words with Abraham Verghese – Paepcke Auditorium & Livestreamed
DESCRIPTION:Buy Winter Words Tickets + Passes\n\nIN-PERSON SEASON PASS: $80\nAttend three in-person events at Paepcke Auditorium in Aspen and one in-person event at TACAW in Basalt \n \nVIRTUAL SEASON PASS: $40\nJoin all four Winter Words events via livestream \n \nINDIVIDUAL EVENT TICKETS: $30\nJoin any of the four events in-person \n \n MORE WAYS TO PURCHASE TICKETS: Visit Explore Booksellers (221 E. Main St.\, Aspen)\, 11 a.m.- 6 p.m.\, Monday-Sunday\, or stop by the Aspen Words lunchtime box office in the Red Brick Center for the Arts (110 E. Hallam St.\, Aspen)\, on Wednesdays from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. \n\nBestselling author of “Cutting for Stone\,” Abraham Verghese wraps up the 2024 Winter Words season\, presenting his latest work\, “The Covenant of Water\,” also a New York Times bestseller\, as well as an Oprah’s Book Club selection and the subject of a six-part podcast series hosted by Oprah Winfrey. This mystical work of fiction follows three generations of a family which experiences mysterious tragedy on the South Indian coast. Verghese will talk about his inspiration for the novel and how his deep and knowledgeable background in the medical field influences his work. \nModerator: Elisabeth Egan\, author and a New York Times books editor \nEvent location: Paepcke Auditorium in Aspen (1000 N 3rd St). Parking is limited. \nDoors: 5:30 p.m. | Talk: 6:00-7:00 p.m. | Book-signing to follow. Explore Booksellers will be selling books. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\n \nAbraham Verghese\, MD\, MACP\, is Professor and Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professor and Vice Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the School of Medicine at Stanford University. He is also a bestselling author of “Cutting for Stone\,” and the recently released “The Covenant of Water” as well as a physician with a reputation for his focus on healing in an era where technology often overwhelms the human side of medicine. He received the Heinz Award in 2014 and was awarded the National Humanities Medal\, presented by President Barack Obama\, in 2015. \nBorn in Addis Ababa in 1955\, the second of three sons of Indian parents recruited by Emperor Haile Selassie to teach in Ethiopia\, he grew up near the capital and began his medical training there. When the emperor was deposed\, Verghese briefly joined his parents in the United States\, working as an orderly\, or nursing assistant\, in a series of hospitals and nursing homes before completing his medical education in India at Madras Medical College. His experiences of civil unrest and his time as a hospital orderly were to leave a significant mark on his life and work. \nAfter graduation\, he left India for a medical residency in the United States and\, like many other foreign medical graduates\, he found only the less popular hospitals and communities open to him\, an experience he described in a 1997 New Yorker article\, “The Cowpath to America.” \nAbraham Verghese’s early years as an orderly\, his care of terminal AIDS patients and the insights he gained from the deep relationships he formed and the suffering he witnessed were transformative. Though he wrote a seminal scientific paper\, he felt the sometimes cold and unimaginative language of science could not begin to capture the nature of the experience for patients and families\, nor did it convey his own feelings as he witnessed their journeys. These were the cumulative experiences around which his first book\, “My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story\,” is centered. \nAs his interest in writing grew\, he took time off from medicine to study at the Iowa Writers Workshop\, where he earned an MFA in 1991. Since then\, his work has appeared in the New Yorker\, Texas Monthly\, Atlantic\, The New York Times\, The New York Times magazine\, Granta\, Forbes and The Wall Street Journal\, among others. \nAfter leaving Iowa\, Verghese became professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Texas Tech Health Sciences Center in El Paso\, Texas\, where he lived for the next 11 years. In El Paso\, he finished his first book\, chosen as one of the Best Books of the Year by TIME and later filmed for Showtime as “My Own Country\,” directed by Mira Nair and starring Naveen Andrews. His second bestselling book\, “The Tennis Partner: A Story of Friendship and Loss\,” explored his friend and frequent tennis partner’s losing struggle with addiction. “The Tennis Partner” was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. \nIn his writing and work\, Abraham Verghese continues to emphasize the importance of bedside medicine and physical examination in an era of advanced medical technology. He contends that the patient in the bed often gets less attention than the patient data in the computer. His December 2008 article in the New England Journal of Medicine\, “Culture Shock: Patient as Icon\, Icon as Patient\,” clearly lays out his viewpoint. \nIn speaking about his novel\, “Cutting for Stone\,” he also addressed the issue: “I wanted the reader to see how entering medicine was a passionate quest\, a romantic pursuit\, a spiritual calling\, a privileged yet hazardous undertaking. It’s a view of medicine I don’t think too many young people see in the West because\, frankly\, in the sterile hallways of modern medical-industrial complexes\, where physicians and nurses are hunkered down behind computer monitors and patients are whisked off here and there for all manner of tests\, that side of medicine gets lost.” \nToday\, as a popular invited speaker\, Verghese has more forums beyond his writing in which to share his views on patient care. He speaks widely on the subject\, as well as giving talks and readings from his books. At the Stanford School of Medicine\, he has led the effort to establish the Stanford 25\, where residents and students are taught techniques and skills to recognize the basic phenotypic expressions of disease that manifest as abnormal physical signs. \n  \n\nThanks to our partners at Explore Booksellers and Bookbinders Basalt\,\nAspen Words members receive 20% off Winter Words book titles.  \n \n \n\nThank you to our season presenting sponsors \nDiane & William Hunckler\nBeth & Josh Mondry \nHelen & Wally Obermeyer\n  \nThanks also to our local partners:
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/winter-words-with-abraham-verghese-paepcke-auditorium-livestreamed/
LOCATION:Paepcke Auditorium\, 1000 N 3rd St.\, Aspen\, CO\, 81611\, United States
CATEGORIES:Winter Words
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SUMMARY:Winter Words with Sasha DiGiulian – Paepcke Auditorium & Livestreamed
DESCRIPTION:Buy Winter Words Tickets + Passes\n\nIN-PERSON SEASON PASS: $80\nAttend three in-person events at Paepcke Auditorium in Aspen and one in-person event at TACAW in Basalt \n \nVIRTUAL SEASON PASS: $40\nJoin all four Winter Words events via livestream \n \nINDIVIDUAL EVENT TICKETS: $30\nJoin any of the four events in-person \n \n MORE WAYS TO PURCHASE TICKETS: Visit Explore Booksellers (221 E. Main St.\, Aspen)\, 11 a.m.- 6 p.m.\, Monday-Sunday\, or stop by the Aspen Words lunchtime box office in the Red Brick Center for the Arts (110 E. Hallam St.\, Aspen)\, on Wednesdays from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. \n\nWorld-champion climber Sasha Digiulian joins Aspen Words to present excerpts from her memoir\, “Take the Lead: Hanging On\, Letting Go\, and Conquering Life’s Hardest Climbs\,” her first book on the subjects of navigating a male-dominated sport\, dealing with body dysmorphia in the age of social media\, and channeling a competitive spirit into entrepreneurship. If you love Tommy Caldwell’s “Push\,” this evening of literature\, the examination of risk-taking\, and stimulating conversation is not to be missed. \nModerator: Caroline Tory\, Aspen Words managing director \nEvent location: Paepcke Auditorium in Aspen (1000 N 3rd St). Parking is limited. \nDoors: 5:30 p.m. | Talk: 6:00-7:00 p.m. | Book-signing to follow. Explore Booksellers will be selling books. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nSasha DiGiulian is a world champion climber and three-time U.S. national champion. At thirty years old\, she’s traveled to over fifty countries and accomplished over thirty first female ascents. In 2016\, she graduated from Columbia University with a focus on journalism and business and in 2022 became the founder and CEO of SEND Bars\, a superfood nutrition bar company. In addition to being featured in dozens of magazines and new media pieces\, she wrote for many publications including Outside magazine\, National Geographic\, Rock and Ice\, Self\, Seventeen and Crave. Sasha is an outspoken environmental activist and a global athlete ambassador for Right to Play\, Protect Our Winters and Up2Us Sports. She served on the board of the Women’s Sports Foundation for six years and travels globally for expeditions\, speaking engagements\, sporting events and commercial work. \n\nThanks to our partners at Explore Booksellers and Bookbinders Basalt\,\nAspen Words members receive 20% off Winter Words book titles.  \n \n \n\nThank you to our season presenting sponsors \nDiane & William Hunckler\nBeth & Josh Mondry \nHelen & Wally Obermeyer\n  \nThanks also to our local partners:
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CATEGORIES:Winter Words
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SUMMARY:Winter Words with Ann Patchett and Elizabeth McCracken – Paepcke Auditorium & Livestreamed
DESCRIPTION:Buy Winter Words Tickets + Passes\n\nIN-PERSON SEASON PASS: $80\nAttend three in-person events at Paepcke Auditorium in Aspen and one in-person event at TACAW in Basalt \n \nVIRTUAL SEASON PASS: $40\nJoin all four Winter Words events via livestream \n \nINDIVIDUAL EVENT TICKETS: $30\nJoin any of the four events in-person \n \n MORE WAYS TO PURCHASE TICKETS: Visit Explore Booksellers (221 E. Main St.\, Aspen)\, 11 a.m.- 6 p.m.\, Monday-Sunday\, or stop by the Aspen Words lunchtime box office in the Red Brick Center for the Arts (110 E. Hallam St.\, Aspen)\, on Wednesdays from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. \n\nThe 2024 Winter Words season debuts with acclaimed\, award-winning author Ann Patchett and her longtime literary friend\, Elizabeth McCracken in conversation. Patchett returns to the Aspen Words stage and will discuss her latest work\, “Tom Lake\,” a “Reese’s Book Club” selection. The novel is a meditation on young love\, married love\, and the lives parents have led before children. McCracken is the author of eight books including her most recent novel\, “The Hero of This Book.” \nPatchett and McCracken are two highly accomplished authors; don’t miss their discussion about their work and lives and the intersection of how family dynamics and other intimate relationships serve as their inspiration. \nEvent location: Paepcke Auditorium in Aspen (1000 N 3rd St). Parking is limited. \nDoors: 5:30 p.m. | Talk: 6:00-7:00 p.m. | Book signing to follow. Explore Booksellers will be selling books. \nABOUT THE AUTHORS\nAnn Patchett is the author of nine novels\, “The Patron Saint of Liars\,” “Taft\,” “The Magician’s Assistant\,” “Bel Canto\,” “Run\, State of Wonder\,” “Commonwealth\,” “The Dutch House” and “Tom Lake.” She was the editor of “Best American Short Stories\, 2006\,” and has written four books of nonfiction–“Truth & Beauty\,” about her friendship with the writer Lucy Grealy\, “What Now?” an expansion of her graduation address at Sarah Lawrence College\, “This is the Story of a Happy Marriage\,” a collection of essays examining the theme of commitment and “These Precious Days\,” essays on home\, family\, friendship and writing. In 2019\, she published her first children’s book\, “Lambslide\,” illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser\, followed by “Escape Goat” in 2020. \nA graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the Iowa Writer’s Workshop\, Patchett has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships\, including a National Humanities Medal\, England’s Women’s Prize\, the PEN/Faulkner Award\, the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, the Book Sense Book of the Year\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, The Chicago Tribune’s Heartland Prize\, The Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts\, the American Bookseller’s Association’s Most Engaging Author Award and the Women’s National Book Association’s Award. Her novel\, “The Dutch House\,” was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her books have been both New York Times Notable Books and New York Times bestsellers. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. \nIn November 2011\, she opened Parnassus Books in Nashville\, Tennessee\, with her business partner Karen Hayes. She has since become a spokesperson for independent booksellers\, championing books and bookstores on NPR\, The Colbert Report (including the series finale)\, Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday\, The Martha Stewart Show and The CBS Early Show\, among many others. Along with James Patterson\, she was the honorary chair of World Book Night. In 2012\, she was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. \n  \nElizabeth McCracken is the author of eight books: “Here’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry\,” “The Giant’s House\,” “Niagara Falls All Over Again\,” “An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination\,” “Thunderstruck & Other Stories\,” “Bowlaway\,” “The Souvenir Museum” and “The Hero of This Book.” She’s received grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Liguria Study Center\, the American Academy in Berlin\, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. “Thunderstruck & Other Stories” won the 2015 Story Prize. Her work has been published in The Best American Short Stories\, The Pushcart Prize\, The O. Henry Prize\, The New York Times Magazine\, and many other places. \n\nThanks to our partners at Explore Booksellers and Bookbinders Basalt\,\nAspen Words members receive 20% off Winter Words book titles.  \n \n \n\nThank you to our season presenting sponsors \nDiane & William Hunckler\nBeth & Josh Mondry \nHelen & Wally Obermeyer\n  \nThanks also to our local partners:
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/winter-words-with-ann-patchett-and-elizabeth-mccracken-paepcke-auditorium-livestreamed/
LOCATION:Paepcke Auditorium\, 1000 N 3rd St.\, Aspen\, CO\, 81611\, United States
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