Northshire Bookstore and Marble House Project Event: Zoë Schlanger on “The Light Eaters”

(Manchester Center, VT) On May 24 at 6 pm, Northshire Bookstore and Marble House Project will host an evening with award winning science writer Zoë Schlanger as she celebrates the paperback release of her bestselling book The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth. Schlanger will appear in conversation with Marble House Executive Director and ecological artist Edward Morris at Northshire Bookstore in Manchester Center.

The Light Eaters was longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Nonfiction Prize, as a Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and won the National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History, as well as appearing on “best of 2024” lists from publications including The New Yorker, TIME, The Washington Post, Smithsonian, and Publishers Weekly among many others.

Written in part at Marble House Project in Dorset, VT, The Light Eaters is a groundbreaking work of popular science that probes the hidden world of the plant kingdom, “destabilizing not just how we see the green things of the world but also our place in the hierarchy of beings, and maybe the notion of that hierarchy itself.” (The New Yorker) We need plants to survive. But what do they need us for—if at all? The Light Eaters is an eye-opening and informative look at the ecosystem we live in, a book that challenges us to rethink the role of plants—and our own place—in the natural world.

“A masterpiece of science writing.” –Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass

Zoë Schlanger is a staff writer at the Atlantic, where she covers climate change. She previously covered the environment at Quartz and Newsweek. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the New York Review of Books, Time, NPR, and elsewhere. Schlanger was the recipient of a 2017 National Association of Science Writers reporting award. 

In addition to being the Executive Director of Marble House Edward Morris is an artist in the collaborative duo Sayler/Morris. He has been awarded multiple fellowships and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2023. His archives are collected by the Nevada Museum of Art Center for Art and Environment, and he is represented by Robert Mann Gallery in New York.

For more information on this or other events, email events@northshire.com, or visit the Northshire Bookstore website at www.northshire.com.

Marble House Project is a multi-disciplinary artist residency program that fosters collaboration and the exchange of ideas by providing an environment for artists across disciplines to live and work side by side. It is rooted in ecological values with a small organic farm on the campus. It has hosted nearly 500 artists since its founding in 2014.

Northshire Bookstore, originally founded in 1976, has locations in Manchester, Vermont and Saratoga Springs, NY as well as at Northshire.com. Our large but intimate general bookstores carry the largest selection of categories and genres including new & used fiction, history, cooking, arts and rare author-signed editions. We also have entire floors devoted to Children’s Books and toys, a full line of stationery, magazines, music, cards, calendars, locally-sourced foods and many fine gifts from clothing to jewelry. Open to the public daily from 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM and 24/7 online with free shipping at www.northshire.com