Sutton, Safina, and “Soles”
It promises to be a meeting of naturalist minds on Saturday at BookHampton in East Hampton, when Carl Safina, the pre-eminent Long Island ecologist, interviews Caroline Sutton about her brand-new collection of essays, “Eyes in the Soles of My Feet,” from Schaffner Press.
The subtitle says a lot, “From Horseshoe Crabs to Sycamores, Exploring Hidden Connections to the Natural World,” and the volume’s 29 essays are arranged in four sections, water, earth, air, and fire, but there’s more than science at work, as the author’s research is paired with her personal reflections as a mother and grandmother.
Ms. Sutton lives in East Hampton. Her previous books include “How Do They Do That?” Saturday’s talk starts at 6 p.m., and tickets are $10.
M.F.A. Open House and Reading
Been a while since you’ve checked in with the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Stony Brook Southampton? Then Tuesday is your day. Or early evening. Late afternoon? That is, from 4:30 to 6 the profs and administrators there will welcome all comers to an open house at good ol’ Chancellors Hall on campus, after which a Writers Speak reading will convene in the Rakoff Studio upstairs.
The open house will offer opportunities to meet faculty, get hip to classes, admission, cost, and financial aid, and chat up students now enrolled.
Reading will be the faculty’s Molly Gaudry, the author of two novels in verse, “We Take Me Apart” and its sequel, “Desire: A Haunting,” Hudson Hess, a program alum, and Claire Jentsch, a current student, “foodie, and ghost story enthusiast.”
More information can be had by emailing Christian McLean, the program’s associate director, at [email protected].