The Authors Guild Foundation returns to Maine this summer for the third season of the Pascal Hall Author Series in partnership with the Lesher Family Foundation and Maine Media Workshops + College. Emily St. John Mandel will be in conversation with Gibson Fay-LeBlanc. Mandel is the author of six novels, most recently Sea of Tranquility, which has been translated into 25 languages and was selected by President Barack Obama as one of his favourite books of 2022. Her previous novels include The Glass Hotel, which was also on Obama’s list, was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and has been translated into 26 languages; and Station Eleven, which was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, won the 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award among other honours, has been translated into 36 languages, and aired as a limited series on HBO Max.

The event will begin with cocktails at 5:00 pm, followed by a conversation at 5:30 pm, and a reception and book signing at 6:30pm. Register here.