The Bridgehampton Museum & Canio’s present

Bridgehampton’s Literary Legends

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A new lecture series highlighting the East End’s connection to literary history.

FREE ADMISSION

The Nathaniel Rogers House, 2539 Montauk Highway, Bridgehampton, NY, 11932.

https://www.bridgehamptonmuseum.org/literarylegends

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The Bridgehampton Museum and Canio’s are proud to present a new lecture series this year that is generously funded by the Suffolk County Omnibus Grant thanks to support from Legislator Ann Welker. In this series, we will be hosting a few talks during the year highlighting the East End’s connection to literary history. These talks will be focused on the writers’ careers and their connections to our local area.

Below is more information about the two talks happening this spring.

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Photo by Marty Reichenthal

Agent of Change: Kurt Vonnegut,

the Civic-Minded, Darkly-Comic Writer.

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Saturday, April 12 at 5pm
The Nathaniel Rogers House, 2539 Montauk Highway, Bridgehampton, NY 11932
FREE ADMISSION
RSVP: https://secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/W8sokH0Ubta0tz0WOAezLA?t=1738251126

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Soon after Slaughterhouse-Five became a best seller, an interviewer asked Vonnegut why he wrote. He answered, “My motives are political. I agree with Stalin and Hitler and Mussolini that the writer should serve his society. I differ with dictators as to how writers should serve.”

Suzanne McConnell will trace the passions that fueled Vonnegut’s writing, the ingredients that shaped his views, and the honing of his craft – especially his humor – that allowed him to realize his work. She’ll share anecdotes of him and his motives as a teacher at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. Together, we might consider what he would be writing today. Presented in partnership with Canio’s.

To join us on zoom make sure to provide us with an accurate email and look out for a confirmation email that will include a link to RSVP for the zoom session.

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Presenter bio:
Suzanne McConnell was a student of Kurt Vonnegut’s at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, and they remained friends. She’s published memoirs of him in The Brooklyn Rail and The Writer’s Digest, led a panel at the AWP conference on Vonnegut’s legacy regarding war, lectured on his work at the American Academy in Berlin, and her book on his writing advice, Pity the Reader: on Writing with Style by Kurt Vonnegut and Suzanne McConnell, was published in 2019 by Seven Stories Press. McConnell has published essays, poems, and award-winning short stories. She taught writing at Hunter College, and was Fiction Editor of Bellevue Literary Review and is now a contributing editor. Her novel, Fence of Earth is being represented for publication by The Phillip G. Spitzer Literary Agency. She lives in Manhattan and Wellfleet, MA, with her husband, the visual artist Gary Kuehn.

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Photo: Catherine McGann

Growing Up Literary: George Plimpton’s Son Reflects

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Saturday, May 10 at 5pm
The Nathaniel Rogers House, 2539 Montauk Highway, Bridgehampton, NY 11932
FREE ADMISSION
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Author and essayist Taylor Plimpton, son of Paris Review founding editor George Plimpton, reminisces on growing up among giants of the written word like Peter Matthiessen and next-door neighbor Kurt Vonnegut in Sagaponack, one of the most remarkable literary hamlets in the world. Presented in partnership with Canio’s.

To join us on zoom make sure to provide us with an accurate email and look out for a confirmation email that will include a link to RSVP for the zoom session.

Presenter bio:
Taylor Plimpton is the author of the memoir, Notes from the Night: A Life After Dark. He regularly contributes essays to Sports Illustrated, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, The New Yorker, A Public Space, The Paris Review Daily, and many other periodicals. Plimpton is currently finishing up a collection entitled, Who My Dog Thinks I Am: Essays and Other True Tales. He graduated with a degree in English from Reed College, and lives with his family (including his mostly good dog, Brooklyn) in Pleasantville, New York.

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