
On Lighthouses: A Conversation with Jazmina Barrera and Sally Snowman
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1:30 pm PT | 2:30 pm MT | 3:30 pm CT | 4:30 pm ET
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Two Lines Press joins Boston Harbor Now for a discussion of lighthouses and harboring with On Lighthouses author, Jazmina Barrera, and Sally Snowman, lighthouse keeper of the Boston Light.
This event will take place on Zoom. Register on eventbrite.
Be sure to pick up a copy of On Lighthouses from one of our favorite independent bookstores, Brookline Booksmith.
About On Lighthouses
Far from home, in the confines of a dim New York apartment where the oppressive skyscrapers further isolate her, Jazmina Barrera offers a tour of her lighthouses–those structures whose message is “first and foremost, that human beings are here.”
Starting with Robert Louis Stevenson’s grandfather, an engineer charged with illuminating the Scottish coastline, On Lighthouses artfully examines lighthouses from the Spanish to the Oregon coasts and those in the works of Virginia Woolf, Edgar Allan Poe, Ingmar Bergman, and many others.
In trying to “collect” lighthouses by obsessively describing them, Barrera begins to question the nature of writing, collecting, and how, by staring so intently at one thing we are only trying to avoid others. Equal parts personal memoir and literary history, On Lighthouses takes the reader on a desperate flight from raging sea to cold stone–from a hopeless isolation to a meaningful one–concluding at last in a place of peace: the home of a selfless, guiding light.