LIBRARY NOTES
 
Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Not Now, Voyager: A Memoir
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 7:00 PM
Temple Israel, 112 East 75th Street
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This event was a presentation of The New York Society Library
in cooperation with Thirteen/WNET and WLIW21.
Ever since the explorations of Marco Polo and the travels of Montaigne, a lively dialogue has persisted about the pros and cons of travel - its excitement and novelties, its perils and misadventures. Lynne Sharon Schwartz joins this dialogue with a memoir that raises both serious and amusing questions about travel, using her own experiences as vivid illustrations.
Not Now, Voyager takes the reader on a voyage of self-discovery as the author traces how travel has shaped her sensibilities from childhood through adulthood. In the form of memoir, Schwartz's personal history takes on new shapes, and her feelings about travel change as she shows who she started out as and who she has become. Above all, this memoir exemplifies a mode of travel in and of itself: the mind on a journey or quest, pausing here and there, sometimes by design, sometimes by serendipity, lingering, occasionally backtracking, but always on the move.
Lynne Sharon Schwartz has published critically acclaimed fiction including
Disturbances in the Field and
The Writing on the Wall, nonfiction, essays, poetry, and translations from Italian. She has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Foundation for the Arts. She is presently on the faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars.
This event is part of the 2008-2009 Author Series, co-sponsored by the Library and
Thirteen/WNET New York.
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