Join Professor Philip Weinstein and the Vineyard Haven Library for a reading and reception in celebration of Weinstein’s new book of essays, "Time’s Bounty: Rethinking Aging." Refreshments provided by the Friends of the Vineyard Haven Library. Copies of "Time’s Bounty" will be available for onsite purchase through Bunch of Grapes bookstore. Free and open to the public. No registration required.
“Time’s Bounty” offers a view of age that differs greatly from our preconceptions—surprising, emancipating, sometimes even joyful. In five brief chapters, the author takes us from the generative discoveries that age occasions to the freedom that comes in life’s late chapters, when no company or institution or cause any longer owns us. At last, we are our own, in ways we could not imagine when younger. “Time’s Bounty” is a bracing view of the surprises that lie ahead, as age enkindles in us new expressions of life.
Weinstein, a retired professor of English, draws not only on his own insights but on the insights found in writers he taught for decades: Shakespeare, Yeats, Proust, Faulkner, Eliot, Beckett, and others. Brief forays into their imaginative works add further illumination to the author’s own discoveries regarding the dramas—both the trials and the gifts—of old age.
Philip Weinstein earned his PhD in English from Harvard University, staying on to teach at Harvard for the next 3 years. He then accepted a position at Swarthmore, where he remained for over 40 years, becoming the Alexander Griswold Cummins Professor of English. He has written several books of literary criticism, many focused on Faulkner, including “Becoming Faulkner: The Art and Life of William Faulkner,” which won the Hugh Holman Award for the best book of literary scholarship or literary criticism in the field of southern literature published in 2010. In 2015, Weinstein retired from Swarthmore and moved to Martha’s Vineyard full-time. Since then, he’s gone on to write three more books and to continue teaching adults through the Vineyard Haven Library, Swarthmore Lifelong Learning, and the 92nd Street Y in New York.
You may also like the following events from Vineyard Haven Public Library:
- This Thursday, 13th November, 03:30 pm, Virtual Art History Series: Her Art – The Legacy of Women Artists Through the Ages (Part 2) in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts
- Next Thursday, 20th November, 02:00 pm, VHPL Book Club Reads “Isola: A Novel” by Allegra Goodman in Vineyard Haven
- Next Sunday, 23rd November, 04:00 pm, Local Off-Season Music & Dancing, with live music by Becky & Rich of the Lunarchs in Vineyard Haven
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