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Meet author Kathryn Schulz

in conversation with NPR host Amy Eddings

Join us when author Kathryn Schulz and NPR host Amy Eddings visit to discuss Schulz's new book, Lost & Found.

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PLEASE NOTE: Per the author’s request, a properly worn face mask will be required to attend this event. 

About the author:

Kathryn Schulz is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of Being Wrong. She won a National Magazine Award and a Pulitzer Prize for “The Really Big One,” her article about seismic risk in the Pacific Northwest. Lost & Found grew out of “Losing Streak,” a New Yorker story that was anthologized in The Best American Essays. Her work has also appeared in The Best American Science and Nature Writing, The Best American Travel Writing, and The Best American Food Writing. A native of Ohio, she lives with her family on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

Eighteen months before Kathryn Schulz’s beloved father died, she met the woman she would marry. In Lost & Found, she weaves the stories of those relationships into a brilliant exploration of how all our lives are shaped by loss and discovery—from the maddening disappearance of everyday objects to the sweeping devastations of war, pandemic, and natural disaster; from finding new planets to falling in love. Although Schulz follows three very different American families in the heart of Lost & Found--her father's, her partner's, and her own--Schulz is also attentive to other, more universal kinds of conjunction: how private happiness can coexist with global catastrophe, how we get irritated with those we adore, how love and loss are themselves unavoidably inseparable. The resulting book is part memoir, part guidebook to living in a world that is simultaneously full of wonder and joy and wretchedness and suffering—a world that always demands both our gratitude and our grief.

Kathryn Schulz will be joined in conversation by Amy Eddings. Before joining Ideastream in 2017, Amy was heard in the afternoons in New York City as host of NPR’s “All Things Considered” on WNYC, NPR’s largest affiliate. Amy is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Best Anchor, Local Radio Gracie Award in 2020 from the Alliance for Women in Media and a 2003 Investigative Reporters and Editors prize for radio. Amy was born and raised in Brunswick, Ohio. She is a graduate of The Ohio State University and New York University, and she now lives in Fairview Park with her cat, Tidbit.