Tickets for the 2026 Summer Season go on sale at 12 PM on April 13. Guild Hall Members enjoy early access—click HERE to join and take advantage of this and other exclusive benefits. Co-Presented by The Peter Matthiessen Center & Guild Hall We live in a culture that rarely questions growth. Expansion—of markets, wealth, productivity, even the self—is treated not only as an economic goal, but as a moral good. But what happens when growth begins to function as a belief system? What, in this framework, do we worship—and what do we lose? Moderated by writer and editor Nina Channing, this conversation brings together authors whose work engages these questions across literature, criticism, and environmental thought. Taking Peter Matthiessen’s work as a point of departure, the discussion considers traditions of writing attentive to limits, place, and forms of life not organized around accumulation. Guest speakers to be announced.
