March
March 3 | YouTube
What are the rapidly-growing number of women wanting to freeze their eggs really facing? Where is the line between marketing and reality and the risks versus the benefits in this often mysterious field of fertility and personal control? Natalie Lampert chronicles her journey into the business of egg freezing, sharing her personal experience and in-depth research in The Big Freeze: A Reporter’s Personal Journey into the World of Egg Freezing and the Quest to Control Our Fertility. Doctor and author Perri Klass says, “The Big Freeze is a scrupulously reported and brilliantly narrated journey through the complex terrain of modern fertility medicine, where medicine and research meet marketing and fantasy. Lampert uses what is most personal in her own life to explore so many interlinked and complicated stories, taking us into laboratories, into clinics, and into the lives of those who look to this science to help them realize their most personal hopes.”
March 25 | Story Sprint
Stacy C. Sherwood Community Center
What do you get when you give three writers only two sentences and twenty minutes? A Story Sprint! Emcee and author Zach Powers will pull two audience-suggested sentences from a hat which will serve as the opening and closing lines for these impromptu tales. Featured sprinters Hannah Grieco, author of First Kicking, Then Not, Megan Howell, author of Softie: Stories, and Michael Don, author of Partners and Strangers will then write for their lives. This classic interactive race will include fun writing games for attendees during the Sprint, followed by a reading of the final stories. Presented in Partnership with the City of Fairfax.
March 31 | Livestreamed via Zoom
What happens when you’re told running––or any other physical hobby that has anchored your life––is no longer a healthy choice? Dimity McDowell, runner, author, and founder of the popular website, Another Mother Runner, shares her story and the stories of others who have suffered injury, chronic pain, or illness and been forced to hang up their sneakers. In her new book The 27th Mile: How to Smooth the Rough Transition Out of Your Running Years, McDowell offers expert advice and wisdom on how to find a new athletic identity and maintain mental health. Presented in Partnership with OLLI Mason.
Podcast Episode
March 10
Matthew Sebastian and Tom McAllister discuss their experimental memoir structures in this episode of the Fall for the Book Podcast. In The Patient Body: A Personal Narrative in Pieces, Sebastian questions what it means to lead a balanced life as a husband, father, friend, and more through a mosaic of ‘flash’ pieces. McAllister’s It All Felt Impossible: 42 Years in 42 Essays delivers on the ambitious promise of the title. The essays, which all are 1,500 words or less, explores the profound and mundane moments that build a life.
