Rachel Cohen - "A Chance Meeting" - Deborah Cohen

Rachel Cohen will discuss A Chance Meeting. She will be joined in conversation by Deborah Cohen. Q&A and signing will follow the discussion.

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About the Book: Weaving a tapestry of creativity and circumstance, A Chance Meeting is a lauded chronicle of the many links and serendipitous meetings between giants of American culture—from Henry James to Gertrude Stein to Zora Neale Hurston to Marcel Duchamp. Reissued at its 20th anniversary by New York Review of Books Classics, the book's inventive consideration of the lives and work of more than thirty American figures makes a group portrait and traces a web of companionship and influence that extends from just before the Civil War up through the Anti-Vietnam War march.

About the Author: Rachel Cohen is the author of three books of nonfiction: Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels, Bernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade, and A Chance Meeting, which won the PEN / Jerard Fund Award and was a finalist for the Guardian First Book Prize. Cohen's essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, The London Review of Books, The Believer and The New York Times, among other publications, and her work has been included in Best American Essays and Pushcart Prize anthologies. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and is Professor of Practice in the Arts in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Chicago.

About the Interlocutor: Deborah Cohen is the Richard W. Leopold Professor of History at Northwestern University and the Executive Director of the Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs. Her most recent book is Last Call at the Hotel Imperial, which won the Mark Lynton History Prize, the Goldsmith Prize, and the Emerson Award. She writes regularly for the Atlantic on subjects ranging from punk rock to World War I photography.