Author Talks & Conversations

Name: Whose Truth? Writers and Readers Forum
Start: 2026-10-04T13:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-10-04T19:00:00-04:00
Location: The Mount

July 2026
SOLD OUT | The Gods of New York: Johnathan Mahler on Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists and the Birth of the Modern City, 1986-1990, in conversation with Sarah LaDuke

Featured July 29 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

The Mount 2 Plunkett Street, Lenox, MA, United States

This program has reached full capacity. To join the waitlist, please complete this form, and we will be in touch! New York Stories is a new series of talks and live interviews exploring the lives of the artists, influencers, and powerbrokers who have shaped the political and cultural landscape of New York City. Through personal […]

$10 – $15
Max Boot, Historian, Foreign Policy Analyst, and Author

Featured July 30 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Summer Author Series

The Mount 2 Plunkett Street, Lenox, MA, United States

Curated by André Bernard, former Vice President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, In Conversation features great thinkers and influential voices whose contributions shape our culture today. Crossing the fields of politics, journalism, humanities, and the arts, these conversations will explore fresh perspectives that spark curiosity and ignite new ways of thinking about our […]

$35 – $40
August 2026
Jeff Chang, Water, Mirror, Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America

Featured August 3 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Summer Author Series

The Mount 2 Plunkett Street, Lenox, MA, United States

Since 1993, the Summer Author Series has brought award-winning biographers to The Mount. This year's Series explores lives and ideas that have challenged convention. From unsung heroes to innovators, these talks invite us to reflect on how acts of courage—large and small—have challenged assumptions and expanded our collective imagination. NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR […]

$27 – $32
Jeff Chang, Water, Mirror, Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America

Featured August 4 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Summer Author Series

The Mount 2 Plunkett Street, Lenox, MA, United States

Since 1993, the Summer Author Series has brought award-winning biographers to The Mount. This year's Series explores lives and ideas that have challenged convention. From unsung heroes to innovators, these talks invite us to reflect on how acts of courage—large and small—have challenged assumptions and expanded our collective imagination. NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR […]

$27 – $32
SOLD OUT: General David H. Petraeus, Retired U.S. Army General, Former CIA Director, and Author

Featured August 6 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Summer Author Series

The Duffin Theater 197 East Street, Lenox, MA

This event has reached full capacity. To join the waitlist, please submit this form -- we will be in touch about ticket availability! Curated by André Bernard, former Vice President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, In Conversation features great thinkers and influential voices whose contributions shape our culture today. Crossing the fields of […]

$35 – $40
Amanda Vaill, Pride & Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution

Featured August 10 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Summer Author Series

The Mount 2 Plunkett Street, Lenox, MA, United States

Since 1993, the Summer Author Series has brought award-winning biographers to The Mount. This year's Series explores lives and ideas that have challenged convention. From unsung heroes to innovators, these talks invite us to reflect on how acts of courage—large and small—have challenged assumptions and expanded our collective imagination. 2026 PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A NEW YORK TIMES […]

$27 – $32
Amanda Vaill, Pride & Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution

Featured August 11 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Summer Author Series

The Mount 2 Plunkett Street, Lenox, MA, United States

Since 1993, the Summer Author Series has brought award-winning biographers to The Mount. This year's Series explores lives and ideas that have challenged convention. From unsung heroes to innovators, these talks invite us to reflect on how acts of courage—large and small—have challenged assumptions and expanded our collective imagination. 2026 PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S […]

$27 – $32
Gilded Lives, Dazzling Tables: The Art of Food and Dining in Edith Wharton’s New York with Carl Raymond and Becky L. Diamond

Featured August 12 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

The Mount 2 Plunkett Street, Lenox, MA, United States

New York Stories is a new series of talks and live interviews exploring the lives of the artists, influencers, and powerbrokers who have shaped the political and cultural landscape of […]

$10 – $15
Kiran Desai, Booker Prize-Winning Novelist

Featured August 13 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Summer Author Series

The Mount 2 Plunkett Street, Lenox, MA, United States

Curated by André Bernard, former Vice President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, In Conversation features great thinkers and influential voices whose contributions shape our culture today. Crossing the […]

$35 – $40
The Jazz Barn: Making Music History in the Berkshires with John Gennari and Ron Ramsay’s Berkshire Salon Series

Featured August 16 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

The Mount 2 Plunkett Street, Lenox, MA, United States

In 1950, Philip and Stephanie Barber opened the Music Inn, a groundbreaking home for jazz and blues nestled among the barns and outbuildings of the Wheatleigh estate. This unlikely venue drew legendary Black jazz performers—John Lewis, Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach, Oscar Peterson, Kenny Dorham, and others—many of whom also served as faculty-in-residence at the Lenox School of Jazz, a vital center of the genre’s avant-garde. In The […]

$30 – $35
Nicholas Boggs, Baldwin: A Love Story

Featured August 17 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Summer Author Series

The Mount 2 Plunkett Street, Lenox, MA, United States

Since 1993, the Summer Author Series has brought award-winning biographers to The Mount. This year's Series explores lives and ideas that have challenged convention. From unsung heroes to innovators, these talks invite us […]

$27 – $32
Nicholas Boggs, Baldwin: A Love Story

Featured August 18 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Summer Author Series

The Mount 2 Plunkett Street, Lenox, MA, United States

Since 1993, the Summer Author Series has brought award-winning biographers to The Mount. This year's Series explores lives and ideas that have challenged convention. From unsung heroes to innovators, these talks invite us […]

$27 – $32
Lawrence Wright, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author, Screenwriter, Playwright, and Journalist

Featured August 20 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Summer Author Series

The Mount 2 Plunkett Street, Lenox, MA, United States

Curated by André Bernard, former Vice President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, In Conversation features great thinkers and influential voices whose contributions shape our culture today. Crossing the […]

$35 – $40
Peter S. Canellos, Revenge for the Sixties: Sam Alito and the Triumph of the Conservative Legal Movement

Featured August 24 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Summer Author Series

The Mount 2 Plunkett Street, Lenox, MA, United States

Since 1993, the Summer Author Series has brought award-winning biographers to The Mount. This year's Series explores lives and ideas that have challenged convention. From unsung heroes to innovators, these talks invite us […]

$27 – $32
Peter S. Canellos, Revenge for the Sixties: Sam Alito and the Triumph of the Conservative Legal Movement

Featured August 25 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Summer Author Series

The Mount 2 Plunkett Street, Lenox, MA, United States

Since 1993, the Summer Author Series has brought award-winning biographers to The Mount. This year's Series explores lives and ideas that have challenged convention. From unsung heroes to innovators, these talks invite us […]

$27 – $32
The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: Margalit Fox on the Rise and Fall of an Organized Crime Boss in conversation with Debby Applegate

Featured August 26 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

The Mount 2 Plunkett Street, Lenox, MA, United States

New York Stories is a new series of talks and live interviews exploring the lives of the artists, influencers, and powerbrokers who have shaped the political and cultural landscape of […]

$10 – $15
September 2026
Glorious Country: How the Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America and America to the World with author Victoria Johnson

Featured September 3 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

The Mount 2 Plunkett Street, Lenox, MA, United States

Published in honor of Fredric Church’s bicentennial, Glorious Country: How the Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America and America to the World, presents a richly crafted and deeply researched portrait of […]

$10 – $15
Book Launch Celebrating Betsy Smith, author of Sign of a Loon

Featured September 27 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Join us to celebrate the launch of Sign of a Loon, the debut novelette of local author and dear friend of The Mount, Betsy Smith. For this special event, Smith will […]

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October 2026
Whose Truth? Writers and Readers Forum

Featured October 4 @ 1:00 pm - 7:00 pm

The Mount 2 Plunkett Street, Lenox, MA, United States

In an era shaped by artificial intelligence, contested truths, and information overload, Whose Truth? Writers and Readers Forum brings together leading voices to explore how writers responsibly tell stories about […]

$20 – $85

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