Events › Author Terry Tempest Williams: The Glorians

Join Chicago Public Library and Women and Children First Bookstore for a conversation with author Terry Tempest Williams about her new book, The Glorians. 

Terry Tempest Williams is the award-winning author of seventeen books of creative nonfiction, including the environmental classic, Refuge. Among her other books are Leap; Finding Beauty in A Broken World; When Women Were Birds; The Hour of Land; and Erosion. Her work has been translated and anthologized worldwide. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters and is currently the writer-in-residence at the Harvard Divinity School. 

Her new book, The Glorians, is a revelatory work of narrative nonfiction exploring beauty, climate change, and transformative moments of hope in a world beset by uncertainty. They are not distant deities, but the ordinary, often overlooked presences - animal, plant, memory, moment - that reveal our shared vulnerability and interconnectedness with the natural world. The Glorians can be as small as an ant ferrying a coyote willow blossom to its queen or as commonplace as the night sky. But what they can collectively teach us - about the radical act of attending to beauty and carrying forward against all odds - is immense.

This event is co-presented by Women and Children First Bookstore. 

How to Attend:

Doors to the Multipurpose Room open at 5:30 p.m., and seating is first come, first served (200 capacity). Books will be available for purchase.

This event will also take place live on CPL's YouTube channel and CPL's Facebook page. You'll be able to ask questions during the event as well! Can't make it to the live stream? We'll archive the video on YouTube to watch later.

Accessibility

Automatic captioning is available via Facebook and YouTube's closed captioning setting. Need sign language interpretation or other accessibility assistance for this event? Please call (312) 747-8184 or email access@chipublib.org to request accommodations. Requests must be made at least 14 business days before the event.