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A Talk with Author Jonathan Rosen
A conversation between Jonathan Rosen, author of The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature and Gary Rosen, John Templeton Foundation plus Jonathan Rosen in Central Park
The Harvard Club, New York City
Monday, May 5, 2008
Jonathan Rosen's acclaimed new book is part memoir and part intellectual history. It describes not only his own initiation into the wonders of birding but the deep connection between the "life of the skies" and the 19th-century development of evolutionary theory in the work of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. "At its heart," The New York Times Book Review observed, his account is "a consideration of the relationship between spiritual yearning and evolutionary science by a birder who tries to speak highly of both."
Jonathan Rosen is the author of The Talmud and the Internet: A Journey Between Worlds (2000) and of the novels Eve's Apple (1997) and Joy Comes in the Morning (2004). In 1990, Jonathan created the Arts & Letters section of the Forward, which he oversaw for ten years. His essays have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, the New Yorker, the American Scholar, and several anthologies. He is currently the editorial director of the Nextbook/Schocken publishing series Jewish Encounters.
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Gary Rosen is the chief external affairs officer of the John Templeton Foundation. Formerly the managing editor of Commentary, he holds a Ph.D. in political philosophy from Harvard. His articles and reviews have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times.