Karen Pinchin in conversation with fellow author Lizzie Stark to discuss Karen's new book, "Kings of Their Own Ocean."
Join us for an evening with writer Karen Pinchin to celebrate her debut book, Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna, Obsession, and the Future of Our Seas. Karen will be in conversation with fellow author, Lizzie Stark, author of Egg: A Dozen Ovatures.
There will be an active discussion as well as ample time for Q&A.
NOTE: This event will be held indoors at Wild Child. Your ticket includes admission to the discussion.
Free to attend! Copies of Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna, Obsession, and the Future of Our Seas and Egg: A Dozen Ovatures will be available for purchase. Wine by the glass will also be available for purchase.
About Karen Pinchin: Karen is an award-winning science journalist, trained chef, and author of Kings of Their Own Ocean. Currently a literary mentor at the University of King’s College creative non-fiction MFA program, her longform writing has appeared in Scientific American, PBS FRONTLINE, Canadian Geographic, and Hakai Magazine. Her work has been supported by the Sloan Foundation and the Canada Council for the Arts, and won gold at both the National Magazine Awards and Atlantic Journalism Awards. In culinary school she specialized in whole-animal butchery and charcuterie, and staged in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France before turning to full-time food systems reporting.
About Lizzie Stark: Lizzie is a participation designer and the author of Pandora’s DNA, Leaving Mundania, and Egg: A Dozen Ovatures. Her writing has been featured in publications such as the Washington Post, Daily Beast, io9, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. She lives in Massachusetts.
About "Kings of Their Own Ocean": This is a tale of human obsession, one intrepid tuna, the dedicated fisherman who caught and set her free, the promises and limits of ocean science, and the big truth of how our insatiable appetite for bluefin transformed a cottage industry into a global dilemma.
Kings of Their Own Ocean is an urgent investigation that combines science, business, crime, and environmental justice. As Pinchin writes, “as a global community, we are collectively only ever a few terrible choices away from wiping out any ocean species.” Through her exclusive access and interdisciplinary, mesmerizing lens, readers will join her on boats and docks as she visits tuna hot spots and scientists from Portugal to Japan, New Jersey to Nova Scotia, and glimpse, as the author does, rays of dazzling hope for the future of our oceans.
About Egg: A Dozen Ovatures: An unconventional history of the world’s largest cellular workhorse, from chickens to penguins, from art to crime, and more.
The egg is a paradox—both alive and not alive—and a symbol as old as culture itself. In this wide-ranging and delightful journey through its natural and cultural history, Lizzie Stark explores the egg’s deep meanings, innumerable uses, and metabolic importance through a dozen dazzling specimens.