Writers In Conversation

Haystack Book Festival brings together in unmoderated conversation writers and thinkers who have something to talk about. Past and upcoming talks are as various as Pulitzer Prize finalist Janice Nimura and Dorothy Wickenden on the women who helped spark the first American civil rights movement, David Chaffetz and Sarah Maslin Nir on Horses as treasured companions and engines of power, NYT Cooking’s Sam Sifton and Melissa Clark on the world of cooking, William Egginton and Samuel Moyn exploring the public circulation of ideas, George Packer and Elizabeth Becker on the coverage of war and how it has changed, Allen Ellenzweig and Jarrett Earnest on the work of photographer George Platt Lynes, Hugh Eakin on Picasso and the movement of modern art to America, and many conversations on our environment and the nature that surrounds us with Noah Charney, Carl Safina, David Allen Sibley, and many others.