Please join Arion Press for the inaugural talk in the Kirkpatrick Speaker Series on the vital role of books in public life sponsored by philanthropist Taylor Kirkpatrick.

Celebrated journalist Nicholas Basbanes will expand on his seminal history of book collecting A Gentle Madness with an original talk “On the Highway of Letters: Forty Years Among the Gently Mad” charting his continued adventures among books and book people. The lecture will be preceded by a reception with drinks and appetizers.