10/04/2025
10:30 am - 5:00 pm
The Haystack Book Festival 2025 will take place Friday, October 3 through Sunday, October 5. Haystack Book Festival brings together in unmoderated conversation writers and thinkers who have something to talk about. Please click here to visit the Haystack Book Festival website.
To register for any Haystack Book Festival sessions,
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Unless otherwise listed, sessions take place at the Norfolk Library.
Haystack Book Festival
Day 2 Schedule:
10:30 a.m. “Farther Than We Can See…..”
Hampton Sides, author of “The Wide, Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook”
in conversation with
Adam Higginbotham, author of “Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space”
For more information about this lecture, please click here.
1:00 p.m. “Worthy and Unworthy Lives”
Dagmar Herzog, author of “The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany’s Twentieth Century”
in conversation with
Sophia Rosenfeld, author of “The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life”
For more information about this lecture, please click here.
3:00 p.m. “American Whim”
Caleb Smith, author of “Thoreau’s Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American Culture”
in conversation with
Jennifer Fleissner, author of “Maladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem”
For more information about this lecture, please click here.
Location
Norfolk Library
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