Join us for wine and refreshments as we celebrate the Hudson Review’s 65th Anniversary Issue, “Literature and the Environment,” featuring writers exploring landscape, memory, culture, and place.

Readings from the Spring Anniversary Issue will be given by Laurie Olin, from “An Alaskan Reverie,” his illustrated boyhood memoir of Alaska in the 1940s and '50s; Tess Lewis, from her translation of the Swiss poet Philippe Jaccottet’s notebook, Seedtime; Peter Wortsman, from his new translation of the Grimms’ fairy tales; and Antonio Muñoz Molina, from his memoir “The Lighthouse at the End of the Hudson” about his walks along the Hudson River.

Paula Deitz is Editor of The Hudson Review and author of the book Of Gardens: Selected Essays (University of Pennsylvania Press). Laurie Olin is a renowned landscape architect and author of Across the Open Field: Essays Drawn on the English Landscape (University of Pennsylvania Press). Tess Lewis is an Advisory Editor of The Hudson Review and an award-winning translator from French and German. Peter Wortsman is the author of a memoir, Ghost Dance in Berlin: A Rhapsody in Gray (Travelers’ Tales). Antonio Muñoz Molina is the 2013 recipient of the Jerusalem Prize and author most recently of the novel La noche de los tiempos (Seix Parral).

The Writing Life events in 2013 were generously underwritten by Jenny Lawrence.