*Unfortunately, Melissa Karen Sances will be unable to join us for this month's reading as planned.*

Writers Bruce Watson will read and talk about their work as part of the Readers & Writers Live series.

This event will also be livestreamed on the Forbes Library YouTube channel. Click here to view.

About the writer: 

Longtime Daily Hampshire Gazette columnist Bruce Watson is the author of four well-reviewed books on American history, each enlivening forgotten or neglected periods in the nation’s past. These include Freedom Summer, Sacco and Vanzetti, and Bread and Roses. Since 2017, Watson has been the writer, editor, and webmaster of The Attic: For a Kinder, Cooler America. The Attic, updated weekly, features short articles about American dreamers, wonders, wits, builders, teachers, and more. With 3,000 weekly subscribers and some 350 articles online, The Attic is getting a little cluttered but still offers surprises for those who choose to rummage at www.theattic.space. 

Watson’s most recent book is Light: A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age (Bloomsbury 2016). The book traces humanity's fascination with light through the lenses of mythology, scripture, philosophy, art history, photography, and physics. The Washington Post called the book "a delightful journey." The American Library Association added, "A dazzling book.” Light was nominated for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. 

Along with his Gazette column that ran weekly from 1994-2015, Watson has written three dozen feature articles for Smithsonian on topics ranging from the history of Coney Island to Ferraris to fallout shelters. His work has appeared in the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, American Heritage, Nautilus, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Yankee, Reader’s Digest, and Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003.