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SUMMARY:Jodi Kantor\, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist and Author
DESCRIPTION: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 most pressing challenges. \nJodi Kantor is a bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times investigative reporter whose work reveals hidden truths about power\, law\, gender\, technology\, and culture. In 2017\, she and journalist Megan Twohey broke the story of allegations against Harvey Weinstein\, spurring the #MeToo global reckoning. She went on to coauthor the book She Said about the Weinstein investigation\, which was adapted into a 2022 film. Recently\, she has been working to illuminate the Supreme Court\, including a behind-the-scenes story of how the justices overturned Roe v. Wade. In this live conversation\, Kantor touches on her #MeToo and Supreme Court reporting and also delves into her new book\, How to Start: Discovering Your Life’s Work\, a letter to young people about navigating today’s uncertain job landscape\, finding meaningful work\, and becoming the authors of their own lives.  \nThe Mount wishes to thank Perri and Michelle Petricca for supporting this program.\n  \nIMPORTANT EVENT INFORMATION: \n\nThis one-hour talk takes place in The Mount’s Event Tent\, an open-air\, 400-seat tent adjacent to the parking lot. Please be mindful of the weather and plan accordingly.\nIn the event of extreme weather\, such as excessive heat or severe thunderstorms\, this program may be moved indoors to The Duffin Theater at Lenox Memorial Middle & High School\, 197 East Street\, Lenox\, MA. All ticket holders will be notified by email at least two hours before the scheduled start time if a venue change is necessary.\nSeating for all programs at The Mount is first-come\, first-served. If you have seating preferences\, we recommend arriving fifteen minutes early.\nAccessible seating is available. To discuss arrangements\, please contact us by phone: 413-551-5111 x5; or email: programs@edithwharton.org. For more information about accessibility\, review The Mount’s accessibility webpage.\nA book signing will follow this talk. Books can be purchased at the event from The Mount Gift & Bookstore or in advance via Bookshop.org\nQuestions? Email: programs@edithwharton.org; or phone: 413-551-5111 x2
URL:https://edithwharton.org/event/jodi-kantor/
LOCATION:The Mount\, 2 Plunkett Street\, Lenox\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Talks & Conversations,In Conversation with André Bernard
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SUMMARY:Max Boot\, Historian\, Foreign Policy Analyst\, and Author
DESCRIPTION: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 most pressing challenges. \nMax Boot is an American author\, historian\, and foreign policy analyst known for his bestselling books\, most recently: Reagan: His Life and Legend (2024)\, one of the 10 best books of 2024 by The New York Times; The Road Not Taken: Edward Landsdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam (2019)\, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; and Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present (2013). Born in Moscow in 1969 and raised in the United States\, he is the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow for national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a columnist for the Washington Post. Previously\, Boot was the op-ed editor of The Wall Street Journal and has been a regular contributor to The Los Angeles Times\, USA Today\, The New York Times\, and other publications.   \nThe Mount wishes to thank Inge Heckel for supporting this program.\n  \nIMPORTANT EVENT INFORMATION: \n\nThis one-hour talk takes place in The Mount’s Event Tent\, an open-air\, 400-seat tent adjacent to the parking lot. Please be mindful of the weather and plan accordingly.\nIn the event of extreme weather\, such as excessive heat or severe thunderstorms\, this program may be moved indoors to The Duffin Theater at Lenox Memorial Middle & High School\, 197 East Street\, Lenox\, MA. All ticket holders will be notified by email at least two hours before the scheduled start time if a venue change is necessary.\nSeating for all programs at The Mount is first-come\, first-served. If you have seating preferences\, we recommend arriving fifteen minutes early.\nAccessible seating is available. To discuss arrangements\, please contact us by phone: 413-551-5111 x5; or email: programs@edithwharton.org. For more information about accessibility\, review The Mount’s accessibility webpage.\nA book signing will follow this talk. Books can be purchased at the event from The Mount Gift & Bookstore or in advance via Bookshop.org\nQuestions? Email: programs@edithwharton.org; or phone: 413-551-5111 x2
URL:https://edithwharton.org/event/max-boot/
LOCATION:The Mount\, 2 Plunkett Street\, Lenox\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Talks & Conversations,In Conversation with André Bernard
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SUMMARY:General David H. Petraeus\, Retired U.S. Army General\, Former CIA Director\, and Author
DESCRIPTION: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 most pressing challenges. \nDavid H. Petraeus is a retired four-star U.S. Army general\, military strategist\, and public servant whose career spanned over 37 years. Petraeus became a central figure in the post-9/11 era\, leading the surge of U.S. forces in Iraq as commander of Multi-National Force–Iraq\, then commanding U.S. Central Command\, and later overseeing NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan. In 2011\, he was confirmed unanimously by the Senate to serve as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency\, and he resigned the following year. Since leaving government\, Petraeus has worked in the private sector\, academia\, and think tanks\, serving as chairman of KKR Global Institute and as a senior fellow at Yale’s Jackson School of Global Affairs. His bestselling book\, Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Gaza\, co-authored with Andrew Roberts\, was published by HarperCollins in 2023.  \nThe Mount wishes to thank Robert Solerno and Margaret Skaggs\, and Barbara J. Cooperman for supporting this program.\n  \nIMPORTANT EVENT INFORMATION: \n\nThis one-hour talk takes place in The Mount’s Event Tent\, an open-air\, 400-seat tent adjacent to the parking lot. Please be mindful of the weather and plan accordingly.\nIn the event of extreme weather\, such as excessive heat or severe thunderstorms\, this program may be moved indoors to The Duffin Theater at Lenox Memorial Middle & High School\, 197 East Street\, Lenox\, MA. All ticket holders will be notified by email at least two hours before the scheduled start time if a venue change is necessary.\nSeating for all programs at The Mount is first-come\, first-served. If you have seating preferences\, we recommend arriving fifteen minutes early.\nAccessible seating is available. To discuss arrangements\, please contact us by phone: 413-551-5111 x5; or email: programs@edithwharton.org. For more information about accessibility\, review The Mount’s accessibility webpage.\nA book signing will follow this talk. Books can be purchased at the event from The Mount Gift & Bookstore or in advance via Bookshop.org\nQuestions? Email: programs@edithwharton.org; or phone: 413-551-5111 x2
URL:https://edithwharton.org/event/david-petraeus/
LOCATION:The Mount\, 2 Plunkett Street\, Lenox\, MA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kiran Desai\, Booker Prize-Winning Novelist
DESCRIPTION: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 most pressing challenges. \nJoin us for an unforgettable conversation with acclaimed novelist Kiran Desai\, celebrating her Booker Prize–shortlisted novel\, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny. A spellbinding story of two young people navigating the forces that shape their lives—country\, class\, race\, history\, and the complicated bonds between generations—the novel is at once a love story\, a family saga\, and a rich work of ideas. This onstage discussion will explore the creative process behind the book\, offering rare insight into the mind of one of our greatest contemporary novelists — live\, unscripted\, and in her own voice. Desai is the bestselling author of Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (1998) and The Inheritance of Loss (2006)\, which won both the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Born in India\, she moved to the United States at sixteen and now lives in New York City.  \nThe Mount wishes to thank Sheila Parek Blum and Christopher Blum for supporting this program.\n  \nIMPORTANT EVENT INFORMATION: \n\nThis one-hour talk takes place in The Mount’s Event Tent\, an open-air\, 400-seat tent adjacent to the parking lot. Please be mindful of the weather and plan accordingly.\nIn the event of extreme weather\, such as excessive heat or severe thunderstorms\, this program may be moved indoors to The Duffin Theater at Lenox Memorial Middle & High School\, 197 East Street\, Lenox\, MA. All ticket holders will be notified by email at least two hours before the scheduled start time if a venue change is necessary.\nSeating for all programs at The Mount is first-come\, first-served. If you have seating preferences\, we recommend arriving fifteen minutes early.\nAccessible seating is available. To discuss arrangements\, please contact us by phone: 413-551-5111 x5; or email: programs@edithwharton.org. For more information about accessibility\, review The Mount’s accessibility webpage.\nA book signing will follow this talk. Books can be purchased at the event from The Mount Gift & Bookstore or in advance via Bookshop.org\nQuestions? Email: programs@edithwharton.org; or phone: 413-551-5111 x2
URL:https://edithwharton.org/event/kiran-desai/
LOCATION:The Mount\, 2 Plunkett Street\, Lenox\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Talks & Conversations,In Conversation with André Bernard
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SUMMARY:Lawrence Wright\, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author\, Screenwriter\, Playwright\, and Journalist
DESCRIPTION: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 most pressing challenges. \nSince 1992\, Lawrence Wright has been a staff writer at The New Yorker\, where his work has earned three National Magazine Awards. He began his career in journalism at The Race Relations Reporter in Nashville in the early 1970s\, later writing for Texas Monthly and Rolling Stone. Wright is the author of eleven nonfiction books\, most notably The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (2006)\, which won the Pulitzer Prize\, and Going Clear (2013)\, a bestselling investigation of Scientology adapted into an Emmy-winning HBO documentary. He has also written four novels\, including Noriega: God’s Favorite (2000)\, The End of October (2020)\, Mr. Texas (2023)\, and\, most recently\, The Human Scale (2025)\, as well as numerous acclaimed plays and one-man shows\, several of which were adapted for film or television. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations\, the Society of American Historians\, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, Wright also moonlights as a keyboard player in the Austin-based blues band WhoDo.  \n  \nIMPORTANT EVENT INFORMATION: \n\nThis one-hour talk takes place in The Mount’s Event Tent\, an open-air\, 400-seat tent adjacent to the parking lot. Please be mindful of the weather and plan accordingly.\nIn the event of extreme weather\, such as excessive heat or severe thunderstorms\, this program may be canceled. All ticket holders will be notified by email at least two hours before the scheduled start time if cancellation is necessary. Ticket orders will be automatically canceled\, and a full refund will be issued.\nSeating for all programs at The Mount is first-come\, first-served. If you have seating preferences\, we recommend arriving fifteen minutes early.\nAccessible seating is available. To discuss arrangements\, please contact us by phone: 413-551-5111 x5; or email: programs@edithwharton.org. For more information about accessibility\, review The Mount’s accessibility webpage.\nA book signing will follow this talk. Books can be purchased at the event from The Mount Gift & Bookstore or in advance via Bookshop.org\nQuestions? Email: programs@edithwharton.org; or phone: 413-551-5111 x2
URL:https://edithwharton.org/event/lawrence-wright/
LOCATION:The Mount\, 2 Plunkett Street\, Lenox\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Talks & Conversations,In Conversation with André Bernard
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