Seriously Entertaining Past

Summertime Blues

Six speakers brought summertime joy to City Winery for the June 2015 theme “Summertime Blues.”

8:00 pm
City Winery Venue

About This Event

Six speakers brought summertime joy to City Winery for Seriously Entertaining’s “Summertime Blues.” The spring and summer finale featured Sarah Lewis, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, Irvine Welsh, Laura Michelle Kelly, Edward Hirsch, and Steven Pinker, with stories of painting, philosophy, burger-flipping, poetry, and first dates.

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Featured Writers

The writers taking the stage at Summertime Blues.

Irvine Welsh

novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and short-story writer

  • On Stage

Sarah Lewis

Associate Professor at Harvard University in the Department of History of Art and Architecture

  • On Stage

Steven Pinker

experimental psychologist and one of the world's foremost writers on language, mind

  • On Stage