The Write Connection at Thoreau Farm

A Program in Partnership with the Thoreau Society

Author talks and writing workshops that encourage critical thinking and perceptive writing about the world and ourselves.

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Spring 2025

Linguaphile: A Conversation with Julie Sedivy

May 29, 2025
7pm
Free Online Event. 

 
“Rapturous . . . For lovers of the written and spoken word, this enchanting study is a must.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
 
If there is one feature that defines the human condition, it is language: written, spoken, signed, understood, and misunderstood, in all its infinite glory. In this ingenious, lyrical exploration, Julie Sedivy draws on years of experience in the lab and a lifetime of linguistic love to bring the discoveries of linguistics home, to the place language itself lives: within the yearnings of the human heart and amid the complex social bonds that it makes possible.

Julie Sedivy has taught linguistics and psychology at Brown University and the University of Calgary. She is the author of Memory Speaks: On Losing and Reclaiming Language and Self and Language in Mind: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics, as well as the coauthor of Sold on Language: How Advertisers Talk to You and What This Says About You. She lives in Calgary, Canada.

Fall 2025

Drinks with God: An Afternoon with Lawrence Millman

Sunday, September 7, 2025
2pm
At Thoreau Farm
Free Public Event

 

Prepare for a hilarious, blasphemous, and utterly unique exploration of divinity like no other. Within the pages of Drinks with God the reader is treated to an unconventional take on familiar biblical figures. Reading it might not sway your religious beliefs, but it’s guaranteed to leave you in stitches. Join us for a raucous afternoon with Lawrence Millman and this new book. 

 

All registration fees for Write Connection at Thoreau Farm programs are non-refundable.

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