It’s Spring — lighten up! Join us for a humor-filled reading at the launch of The Last Voyage of Baron Munchausen and other Wayward Tales, a new irreverent chapbook from Arctic explorer and author Lawrence Millman.
It is a collection of satiric tales, told in the manner of George Carlin and Italo Calvino, but not — definitely not — Jane Austen or Henry James. Included are such luminaries as Jesus Christ (encountering challenging times in NYC), the Lion from the Wizard of Oz (not cowardly, but constipated), and George Washington (suffering from a head wound and, as a result, wanting to be our nation’s first president), along with the inimitable Baron Munchausen, who travels to the Moon and meets both the Man and the Woman in the Moon, just prior to Neal Armstrong’s arrival on our lunar neighbor.
Millman will read tongue-in-cheek selections from the book and share his writing process.
May 18
7 pm
NOW ON ZOOM
Free, registration required
Author and Arctic explorer Lawrence Millman has written 18 books, including such titles as Our Like Will Not Be There Again, Last Places, Hiking to Siberia, At the End of the World, Fascinating Fungi of New England, Fungipedia, and Goodbye, Ice. He is also a contributor to Thoreau Farm’s upcoming book: What Would Henry Do? Volume II. He has visited Henry’s grave more times than he’s visited either his mother’s or his father’s graves. He lives in Cambridge.