Scarsdale Adult School Catalog Fall/Winter 2024-25
Author Visit: Lorraine Besser, The Art of the Interesting: What We Miss in Our Pursuit of the Good Life and How to Cultivate It (2024) Meet Lorraine Besser, Professor of Philosophy at Middlebury College, whose studies on what makes for a good life are the subject of her upcoming book, The Art of the Interesting: What We Miss in Our Pursuit of the Good Life and How to Cultivate It (on-sale September 10, 2024). Traditionally, philosophers and psychologists have thought of the good life in terms of happiness or meaning, or some combination of both. Emerging research suggests that such understandings are incomplete, and that “psychological richness,” that which helps make life more interesting, is a key ingredient. Psychological richness derives from our experiences of things that stimulate and engage us – i.e., the interesting. Through delightful stories, Professor Besser explains how to cultivate the “interesting” through mindfulness, novelty, turning obstacles into adventures, and friendships.
LORRAINE BESSER , PhD, is a professor of philosophy at Middlebury College, who specializes in the philosophy and psychology of the good life and teaches popular courses for undergraduates on happiness, well-being, and ethics. An internationally recognized scholar, she was a founding investigator on the research team studying psychological richness. She is the author of The Philosophy of Happiness: An Interdisciplinary Introduction and Eudaimonic Ethics: The Philosophy and Psychology of Living Well , as well as dozens of professional journal articles on moral psychology. Thursday, September 26 • 7:00pm-8:30pm • Zoom • Course 12832 • $30 Author Visit: Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark (2024) In conversation with Crown Publishing’s Senior Vice President and Fiction Publisher Amy Einhorn, meet UK-based author Chris Whitaker during his limited US tour for a discussion of his latest bestseller, All the Colors of the Dark (2024), a book that Jenna Bush Hager is turning into a mini-series. This heart-wrenching genre-bending epic depicts the fine line that separates light and dark, triumph and tragedy, and devotion and obsession. Set in Missouri beginning in the 1970s and spanning over 25 years, the novel is part mystery, part serial killer thriller, and part love story. Girls in the small town of Monta Clare have been disappearing. When the daughter of a wealthy family becomes the target, an unlikely hero emerges in Patch Macauley, a local boy, born with only one eye, who saves her. Haunting and beautiful, the story explores how childhood wounds impact adulthood as it focuses on Patch, his best friend Saint, and Patch's multi-year effort to locate another one of the girls who had been abducted. CHRIS WHITAKER is the award-winning author of Tall Oaks , All the Wicked Girls , We Begin at the End , and All the Colors of the Dark .
AMY EINHORN is the Senior Vice President and Fiction Publisher at Crown Publishing. Previously, she was President at Henry Holt & Co., Publisher at Flatiron Books, and had her own eponymous imprint, Amy Einhorn Books, at Penguin Random House. Einhorn has published many New York Times bestselling fiction authors, including Chris Whitaker, Liane Moriarty, Min Jin Lee, and others, as well as bestselling memoirs and narrative nonfiction by authors such as James Comey, Jenny Lawson, and Amy Sedaris.
Wednesday, October 9 • 7:00pm-8:30pm • Scarsdale Public Library • Course 12869 • $35
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