Cole kicks off 2021 Author's Corner lecture series

May 28, 2021

�� Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning and the University of Alaska Press will host the Author’s Corner lecture series starting June 7.

This 11-week series will highlight the works of a variety of published authors at UA Press. Lectures can be viewed in person at 7 p.m. Mondays at the BP Design Theater, which is located on the fourth floor of the ELIF building on the �� campus.

Masks are required for unvaccinated people attending the events. The lectures will also be webcast at and posted on the Summer Sessions website afterward at .

The opening lecture will feature Fairbanks journalist and historian Dermot Cole discussing “Hard Driving: The 1908 Auto Race from New York to Paris,” on June 7. An outdoor reception will follow the lecture.

Other lectures in the 2021 series include:

June 14 – “Go Play Outside: Tips, Tricks, and Tales from the Trails,” Nancy Fresco

June 21 -  “Cabin 135, A Memoir of Alaska,” Katie Eberhart

June 28 -  “Ivory and Paper: Adventures in and Out of Time,” Ray Hudson

July 12 -  “I Thought There Would Be More Wolves,” Sara Ryan

July 19 -  “Water Mask,” Monica Devine

July 26 – “Whiteout,” Jessica Goodfellow

Aug. 2 – “Li Bai Rides a Celestial Dolphin Home,” Tom Sexton

Aug. 9 – “Cold Latitudes,” Rosemary McGuire

Aug. 16 – “Coming Out of Nowhere,” Linda Schandelmeier

Aug. 23 – “Alaska in the Progressive Age,” Thomas Alton

For more information, visit or call 907-474-7021.

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