Inhabiting Boundary Lines: On Crossing Ecosystems, Shorelines and Concepts Kate Cart began writing about fisheries while working on commercial fishing vessels in the Bering Sea and Gulfs of Maine and Alaska. She now lives and works in Phippsburg as an Island Institute Fellow. She will talk about how large social, ecological and economic systems overlap in Phippsburg’s intertidal zones and the role of social boundary spanning in long-term resource management.

The Making of a Novel: Last Night at the Disco Lisa Borders's third novel, the dark comedy Last Night at the Disco, is set largely in 1977 and narrated by a New Jersey junior high school teacher who spends her weekends at Studio 54. There, she discovers two musicians who become among the most influential artists of the 1980s – and decades later, having burned bridges with them both, she tells her story in hopes of securing her rightful place in rock ‘n’ roll history. Lisa's [...]

Belonging isn’t always something we inherit. It’s something we search for and, hopefully, find. Author Michael Lowenthal will read from and discuss his new essay collection, Place Envy, which traces a lifelong search for identity, queer lineage, and connection across cultures, histories, and the self. Through journeys that span continents and communities, Lowenthal explores what it means to feel rooted—or unmoored—and how storytelling can bring us closer to truth.   Michael Lowenthal is the author of the novels The Same Embrace, Avoidance, Charity Girl, and [...]