Join us for an evening with renowned book critic, author, and editor Donna Seaman, the Editor-in-Chief of Booklist. Seaman visits the American Writers Museum to discuss her new memoir River of Books: A Life in Reading, a  moving, dazzling  and  beautiful memoir  (Sara Paretsky) of reading and working with books. Seaman is interviewed by AWM President Carey Cranston. Books will be available for purchase and Seaman will sign them following the program. This is an in-person program at the American Writers Museum. This program will also be livestreamed, and you can register for the link to the online broadcast here. More about River of Books: A Life in Reading: With the infectious curiosity of an inveterate bibliophile and the prose of a fine stylist, Donna Seaman charts the course of her early reading years in a book-by-book chronicle of the significance books have held in her life. River of Books recounts Seaman's journey in becoming an editor for Booklist, a reviewer, an author, and a literary citizen, and lays bare how she nourished both body and soul in working with books. Seaman makes palpable the power and self-recognition that she discovered in a life dedicated to reading. Praise for River of Books:  River of Books makes me realize that I'm not alone... I, too, am swept away by words. This is a celebration of the intense love affair we have with books.  —Sandra Cisneros, author of Women without Shame, Caramelo, The House on Mango Street  River of Books is as exhilarating as a first date, and it delivers: The memoir of a lifelong book lover who brings us her keen, engaging perspective on her own reading and the larger world of books, it will warm you and delight you and make you realize how fabulous reading can be.  —Susan Orlean, author of On Animals, The Library Book, The Orchid Thief  Donna Seaman reads with her whole body, and River of Books is a hymn to her vocation, a testament to her immersions, the story of her transports. The surface is calm, but the water runs deep in this memoir of intense responses, of enchantments and ecstasies.  —Edward Hirsch, author of Stranger by Night and editor of 100 Poems to Break Your Heart  River of Books is a beautiful memoir. Deeply personal, it is moving, dazzling, and spiced with touches of Seaman's slantwise sense of humor.  —Sara Paretsky, author of Pay Dirt and other V. I. Warshawski novels DONNA SEAMANis the Editor-in-Chief at Booklist, a member of the Content Leadership Team for the American Writers Museum, an adjunct professor for Northwestern University's Graduate Creative Writing Program, School of Professional Studies, and a recipient of the Louis Shores Award for excellence in book reviewing, the James Friend Memorial Award for Literary Criticism, and the Studs Terkel Humanities Service Award. Seaman created the anthology In Our Nature: Stories of Wildness; her author interviews are collected in Writers on the Air: Conversations About Books, and she is the author of Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists. She lives in Chicago. Visit: https://www.donnaseaman.com

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