First Draft: A Dialogue On Writing W/ ERIC JAY DOLIN @ Event @ 6:30 pm / DOORS @ 5:30 pm FREE W/ RSVP SEATED SHOW / ALL AGES (Under 18 must be accompanied by a legal guardian) RSVP LIMIT OF 4 RSVP PER PERSON Group Sales are available to our Business Advocates, learn more Event @ 6:30 pm / Doors @ 5:30 pm ABOUT FIRST DRAFT: A DIALOGUE ON WRITING Genre: PANEL First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing is a literary podcast produced and hosted by Mitzi Rapkin. Each week the podcast features an in-depth interview with a fiction, non-fiction, essay, or poetry writer. The show is equal parts investigation into the craft of writing and conversation about the topics of an author’s work. ABOUT THE WRECK OF THE MENTOR The Wreck of the Mentor is the story of the American whaleship Mentor, wrecked in 1832 on a remote reef in the western Pacific. With supplies dwindling, the eleven surviving crewmen face not only the miseries of shipwreck in unfamiliar territory but also the profound uncertainty of contact with the Indigenous people of the Micronesian archipelago of Palau, who within days approach the deserted men brandishing axes, clubs, and spears. In this gripping saga of cultural collision, tribal wars, and dashed hopes, award–winning historian Eric Jay Dolin vividly reconstructs the Mentor’s doomed voyage, the years of perilous captivity, and the delicate negotiations and fraught naval rescue mission that followed. The Wreck of the Mentor is at once a powerful story of survival and a revealing window into the great Age of Sail―a time when maritime ambition collided with local sovereignty, and when the outcome of one voyage rippled across oceans and empires. ABOUT ERIC JAY DOLIN Eric Jay Dolin is the author of seventeen books, including Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America; A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America’s Hurricanes and Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution. His newest book coming out in June, is The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail. Dolin’s books have won many awards including the John Lyman Award for U.S. Maritime History; Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award; and National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Excellence in American History Book Award for Adult Nonfiction among others. Many of his books have been chosen as “must reads” by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. Other honors include being chosen as a finalist for the Kirkus Prize, and as one of the best books of the year by The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Kirkus Reviews, the Library Journal, and Booklist. Dolin lives in Marblehead, Massachusetts, with his family. Learn more about Eric Jay Dolin: WEBSITE / FACEBOOK ABOUT MITZI RAPKIN Mitzi Rapkin is the founder, host and producer of the literary podcast, “First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing,” which features a new author interview each week. She has interviewed more than 500 contemporary writ...
