Summer Book Club: A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit

Join Clark staff and fellow book lovers for lively in-person discussions of three different books related to the summer’s exhibitions. Works by Honoré de Balzac, Marino Azuela, and Rebecca Solnit provide new insights into the summer special exhibitions, Rodin in the United States: Confronting the Modern, José Guadalupe Posada: Symbols, Skeletons and Satire, and Tauba Auerbach and Yuji Agematsu: Meander. Each meeting is free, but capacity is limited, so please RSVP for each meeting you would like to attend. Reservations open one month before each meeting. All novels are available in English translations, and copies will be available for purchase in the Clark’s Museum Store.

The summer book club series continues with Rebecca Solnit’s A Field Guide to Getting Lost. Described by The New Yorker as “A meditation on the pleasures and terrors of getting lost,” Rebecca Solnit’s Field Guide to Getting Lost includes autobiographical and philosophical essays about losing and finding one’s self. In exploring how humans navigate the world, Solnit’s writings resonate with the meander, a motif and a way of moving explored by both Tauba Auerbach and Yuji Agematsu, whose recent works are on view at the Lunder Center at Stone Hill.

This event is free, but capacity is limited to thirty attendees. Registration for this event opens on Monday, July 25. Please notify us if you change your plans after registering so that others may join the event. Previous book club meetings take place on Thursday, June 30 and Thursday, July 28.

Image: Yuji Agematsu, Notebook for zip: 07.01.21 . . . 07.31.21, 2021 (detail: 07.21.21)
notebook, 5 x 3 1/4 inches. Courtesy of the artist.