Capital J
Capital J Mainstage: Kathryn Schulz in Conversation with Sarah Wildman
Teens (13-17), Adults (18+)Date : Wednesday, Nov 19
Time :
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location : Edlavitch DCJCC
1529 Sixteenth Street, NW, Washington, DC
1529 Sixteenth Street, NW, Washington, DC
Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Kathryn Schulz joins Capital J for a discussion of love, grief, and the stories we tell about where we come from.
Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Kathryn Schulz joins Capital J for a discussion of love, grief, and the stories we tell about where we come from. Schulz offers a unique vantage point to explore the current uneasiness within ourselves and our communities with emotional clarity and compassion. She will be in conversation with Sarah Wildman.
Kathryn Schulz is an author, public speaker, and staff writer at The New Yorker. Her most recent book Lost & Found: Reflections on Grief, Gratitude, and Happiness was published in November 2022 and was a national bestseller, on the National Book Award longlist, and named one of the ten best books of the year by People Magazine. She is also the author of Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error, of which Dwight Garner wrote “Ms. Schulz’s book is a funny and philosophical meditation on why error is mostly a humane, courageous and extremely desirable human trait. She flies high in the intellectual skies, leaving beautiful sunlit contrails.” In 2016, Kathryn won a National Magazine Award and a Pulitzer Prize for “The Really Big One,” an article about seismic risk in the Pacific Northwest, which was later anthologized in The Best American Science and Nature Writing. Her other essays and reporting have appeared in The Best American Essays, The Best American Travel Writing, and The Best American Food Writing. Originally from Ohio, she now lives with her family on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
Sarah Wildman is an editor and writer for Opinion at The New York Times. She was previously the co-creator, producer, and host of Foreign Policy’s First Person podcast. Prior to joining FP as a deputy editor, she was the global identities and borders writer at Vox, a position she originated. Sarah Wildman has lived in and reported from Paris, Vienna, Madrid, Washington, Jerusalem, and Berlin. She was a Dart Center Ochberg fellow (a project of the Columbia School of Journalism) in 2015 and the 2014 Barach Non Fiction Writing Fellow at the Wesleyan Writers Conference. Wildman won the 2010 Peter R. Weitz Prize from the German Marshall Fund, a prize awarded for “excellence and originality” in European coverage, a 2011 Rockower Award from the American Jewish Press Association for commentary, and a 2008 Lowell Thomas Award Winner for travel writing.
Capital J is a bold new program hosting prominent Jewish voices from politics, culture, business, and the arts to share their perspectives and explore what it means to be an American Jew in our present moment. Learn more at edcjcc.org/capitalj.
VIP Meet & Greet ticket holders will be invited to join us for a post-event reception with the speaker(s) following the conversation.
If you have any questions about Capital J, please reach out to Program Director Adam Cooper at acooper@edcjcc.org.
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