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Reading and conversation with Craig Childs on April 7, 2022

Summerreading

When: Thu, April 7, 6pm – 8pm

Where: Crossroads South-1-CRC (350) [Media Hub, Phone] (map)

Description:

Craig Childs has published more than a dozen critically acclaimed books, including The Secret Knowledge of Water, Atlas of a Lost World, and his most recent Virga & Bone. He is a contributing editor at Adventure Journal Quarterly and his work has appeared in the Atlantic, New York Times, and Los Angeles Times. An Arizona native, Childs has a B.A. in Journalism from CU Boulder with a minor in Women's Studies, and an M.A. in Desert Studies from Prescott College. Childs has been a recurring contributor for  NPRs Morning Edition, he teaches writing at both University of Alaska in Anchorage and Southern New Hampshire University. 

About Tracing Time: “Centuries dissolve. You’ve stepped into a portal, an eye, the open mouth of time. One small pecking can do it, a rough antlered deity no taller than a finger. It is one word in a grand storytelling that spans the Colorado Plateau, this land of rock,” writes Craig Childs in Tracing Time. In ten literary essays with original illustrations, Childs bears intimate witness to rock art of the Colorado Plateau. The smallest figure on stone is a story of ancestry, ceremonies, trade routes, wars. With generosity, humility, and love of the arid, intricate landscapes of the desert Southwest, Childs sets ancient communications in context, inviting readers to look and listen.

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