Thurber House: Where laughter, learning and literature meet.

Roger Rosenblatt

Thursday, January 26
Columbus Museum of Art
480 E. Broad Street (map it)

“Prose that is sad, funny, brave and luminous…”
–The Los Angeles Times, on Making Toast

Roger Rosenblatt is the beloved author of fifteen books, including the bestsellers Lapham Rising, Making Toast, and Beet. In Making Toast, Rosenblatt wrote movingly of the sudden death of his thirty-eight-year-old daughter, Amy. In his new book, Kayak Morning, the time is two and a half years after her death, and he heads out on his kayak. The result is a remarkable, unsentimental yet extraordinarily moving meditation on the passages of grief, loss and aloneness, but most of all, on the redemptive and restorative powers of love. Roger Rosenblatt has won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is Distinguished Professor of English and Writing at Stony Brook University. He lives with his family in Maryland and New York.