It’s hard to hear in the Amphitheater sometimes. It’s an issue in 2016, and it was an issue in 1977 when anthropologist Margaret Mead gave a lecture called “The Future as Frame for the
Poet Jim Daniels said when people think of literary film adaptations, they often think of franchises such as the Harry Potter series. With his Brown Bag, “Turning Poetry into Film,” Daniels will discuss a different kind
The Chautauqua Writers’ Center will offer a prose workshop focused on place as well as an advanced poetry workshop to students in Week Five. Writers Tom Noyes and Jim Daniels, both Writers’ Center returnees,
James Frey didn’t just ruin Oprah’s Book Club when it was revealed that parts of his memoir A Million Little Pieces were fabricated — he also exploded the genre of memoir. Writer Emily Fox
Susan Dworski Nusbaum thinks reading poetry can be like finding a friend. Chautauquans may have already found a friend in Nusbaum, who has lived in the area since 1998. Nusbaum will present her new poetry
At any given moment, there are about 7,000 aircraft in the sky, according to the National Air Traffic Controllers Association. A little more than a century ago, it seemed unfathomable that one plane could make
Gregory Donovan thinks online literary journals have helped revitalize the world of words. But when Donovan started working with the online journal Blackbird, he said, he was often asked why he was involving himself
The Great American Picnic has become an iconic Chautauqua event — iconic enough that footage from it appears in the Chautauqua Promise Campaign video, which happens to be narrated by Ken Burns. The event,
The Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall will have a full house in Week Four. In addition to the regular poetry and prose workshops, the Chautauqua Writers’ Center will host two special workshops during the
When Ann Hood was asked to do a TED Talk a few years ago, she blanked. She spent a lot of time thinking about what she could possibly talk about and what really mattered
When historians write, they often explore times and places that seem worlds away from their own. Erik Larson wasn’t on the RMS Lusitania. David McCullough didn’t fly with the Wright brothers. They dig through archives,
Poet Charles Coe grew up in Indianapolis in the late 50s and early 60s, a time when he said the city lived under de facto segregation. Many places were inaccessible to him. One place,
After a move to Bestor Plaza last year, the Authors Among Us book fair will undergo another change in its fourth year on the grounds: it’s starting earlier. The event will take place from
Week Three’s workshops at the Chautauqua Writers’ Center are all about people. Ann Hood Writers Ann Hood and Charles Coe will help their students explore the ins and outs of the personal essay and
As a child growing up in Georgia, Kim T. Griswell often felt silenced by the world around her. “I grew up in the South in a time when kids were still second-class citizens, meant
The people featured in Larissa MacFarquhar’s Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help seem decidedly ordinary in their circumstances. It’s their decisions that seem unbelievable. One couple adopts