Charles Hood in conversation with Jonathan Franzen: A Salad Only the Devil Would Eat Book Launch
November 1, 2021 | 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
“Among nature writers now working, Charles Hood may be my favorite. He never stops telling stories, and his perspective is fundamentally comic, even when he’s recounting a tragedy.”
—Jonathan Franzen
Join naturalist and poet Charles Hood in conversation with Jonathan Franzen on Monday, November 1st as they discuss birding, the craft of writing, and Charles’ new collection of essays A Salad Only the Devil Would Eat: The Joys of Ugly Nature.
This event will be held at the Colligan Theater in Santa Cruz, California. Doors open at 5:30, the talk will take place from 6:00-7:00, followed by a reception on the Colligan plaza.
Reserve your seats for one or two guests. Each reservation comes with one copy of Charles Hood’s new book, and includes author book signing.
This event is hosted by Catamaran Literary Journal. For more details and to reserve your spot, register through their website today.
Reserve Your SpotAbout the Speaker
Charles Hood
Poet and essayist Charles Hood has been a factory worker, a ski instructor, and a birding guide in Africa. His recent books published by Heyday include Nocturnalia, an appreciation of nature after dark, and the essay collection A Salad Only the Devil Would Eat: The Joys of Ugly Nature. His wildlife studies have taken him around the world, from the high Arctic to the South Pole, and from Tibet to West Africa to the Amazon. Mammal no. 1,000 seen and recorded on his world animal list was a Crossley's dwarf lemur in Madagascar. (Mammal no. 999 was a Malagasy white-bellied free-tailed bat.) Recently retired and now professor emeritus, Hood lives in the Mojave Desert with two kayaks, two mountain bikes, two dogs, and five thousand books.
