Rum and Redaction – April 2022

Join us Friday, April 22, for Rum and Redaction in partnership with Baltimore bookseller, Greedy Reads featuring Maryland authors Jeannie Vanasco and Joshua Weiner. We’ll have special cocktails highlighting Jeannie and Joshua’s favorite flavors.

Jeannie Vanasco is the author of the memoirs Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl—which was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a best book of 2019 by TIME, Esquire, Kirkus, among others—and The Glass Eye, which Poets & Writers called one of the five best literary nonfiction debuts of 2017. Her third book, A Silent Treatment, is forthcoming from Tin House. Her essays have appeared in the Believer, the New York Times, the Times Literary Supplement, and elsewhere. Born and raised in Sandusky, Ohio, she lives in Baltimore and is an assistant professor of English at Towson University.

Joshua Weiner is the author of three books of poetry, and the editor of a book of essays about Thom Gunn (all from University of Chicago Press). His Berlin Notebook, reporting about the refugee crisis in Germany, was published by Los Angeles Review of Books in 2016. He has received Whiting, Guggenheim, and Rome Prize fellowships, as well as the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship, which took him to Berlin in 2012.  His translation (with Linda B. Parshall) of Nelly Sachs’ 1959 volume, Flight and Metamorphosis, was just published by Farrar Straus Giroux.  He teaches at University of Maryland, and lives in Washington D.C.