(LENOX, Mass.) – Journalist and cultural critic Kate Bolick will read from and sign copies of her brand-new memoir, “Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own,” at The Mount on Friday, May 15, 2015, at 5pm. In “Spinster,” Bolick uses her personal experiences as a starting point, taking readers through her intellectual and sexual coming…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Stone Court Writer-in-Residence Snowden Wright – the author of Play Pretty Blues: A Novel of the Life of Robert Johnson — will read from his work at The Mount on Saturday, May 9, 2015, at 3pm. The reading is free and open to the public Part researched reconstruction, part vivid imagination, Play…
by Seth Rogovoy (LENOX, Mass.) – Classical music is in good hands and its future is bright, according to composer Phil Kline, who spoke at the Mount on Sunday as part of Close Encounters With Music’s “Conversations With…” series. In an engaging, hourlong survey of the contemporary scene, peppered with recorded snippets of music by…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Critically acclaimed new-music composer and all-around Renaissance man Phil Kline surveys the classical music scene from a composer’s viewpoint, looking at and listening to a wide variety of music written in the last few years, in “Unsilent Composer,” a presentation in The Stables at The Mount on Sunday, May 3, 2015, at…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Authors Jedediah Berry, Arda Collins, Ron Currie Jr., Paul La Farge, Courtney Maum, Sue Smith and Jenny Zigrino will take part in a Literary Death Match at The Mount: Edith Wharton’s Home, on Friday, April 24, at 8pm. Four of these authors will read original work before a panel of three all-star judges.…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Two new initiatives at The Mount will enhance visitors’ experience, making it less of a house and more of a home. The first is a partnership with the Preservation Society of Newport County that includes a loan of period furniture and paintings from its collection. The other is a new admission policy…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Two new adaptations of Edith Wharton short stories, “The Long Run” and “The Rembrandt,” will receive a Thanksgiving Week run at The Mount from Wednesday, November 26, to Sunday, November 30, 2014. In “The Long Run” (1916), Ames, a gentleman engineer, returns to his social circle in New York after twelve years’…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Sharon Olds will read from her work at The Mount on Friday, September 12, at 7 pm. The reading — the Amy Clampitt Memorial Reading — will be free and open to the public. A book signing and reception will follow. Born in San Francisco, Sharon Olds studied at…
(LENOX, Mass.) – Old-fashioned storytelling in new-fashioned dress will return to The Mount, the home of Edith Wharton in Lenox, Mass., with three storytelling events this fall, kicking off on Friday, September 5, at 8pm, with seven award-winning storytellers — H.R. Britton, Jannelle Codianni, Norah Dooley, Liz Martin, Theresa Okokon, Brendyn Schneider, and Darlene White…
(LENOX, Mass.) — Authors Andre Dubus III, Joanna Rakoff, Scott Stossel, and Jennifer Finney Boylan will take part in “Touchstones,” a new interview series at The Mount featuring celebrated journalist Kate Bolick in conversation with leading writers. The one-hour conversations will take place on four successive Friday evenings: August 8, August 15, August 22, and…
