University of Southern California
Levan Institute for the Humanities
Los Angeles, CA 90007
United States
This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required. Register here.
Join Ellen Wayland-Smith to discuss new book The Science of Last Things: Essays on Deep Time and the Boundaries of the Self. The author will be joined by Eula Biss, Lochlann Jain, and moderated by Maggie Nelson.
This discussion is part of the Levan Institute for the Humanities’ “Book Chats” series, organized in partnership with the USC Writing Program, the Department of English, and the HEAL program at the Keck School of Medicine. Learn more and register here.
Ellen Wayland-Smith
Ellen Wayland-Smith is the author of Oneida and The Angel in the Marketplace. Her work has appeared in Guernica, Catapult, The Millions, Longreads, The American Scholar, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
“Offering a deeply necessary, clear-eyed look at who we are as flesh-and-bone bodies during the climate crisis, this is a book that searches and finds meaning in both the hard truths and the value of wonder.”—Ada Limón
In this luminous collection of essays, Ellen Wayland-Smith probes the raw edges of human existence, those periods of life in which our bodies remind us of our transience and the boundaries of the self dissolve.