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An Afternoon with Zoë Schlanger

Author of The Light Eaters

Join us for author and journalist Zoë Schlanger as she discusses her newest book, The Light Eaters, a New York Times bestseller that probes the hidden world of the plant kingdom.

Join us when science writer, Zoë Schlanger discusses her newest book, The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth. The Light Eaters is a New York Times bestseller that has been dubbed a groundbreaking work of popular science that probes the hidden world of the plant kingdom. It is a deep immersion into the drama of green life and the complexity of this wild and awe-inspiring world that challenges our very understanding of agency, consciousness, and intelligence. 

Zoë is a staff writer at the Atlantic, where she covers climate change. The Light Eaters, is a New York Times bestselling book about the world of plant-behavior-and-intelligence research, published by HarperCollins. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, NPR, and The New York Review of Books, among other major outlets. She was the recipient of a 2017 National Association of Science Writers reporting award for coverage of air pollution in Detroit, and a finalist for the 2019 Livingston Award for a series on water politics at the Texas-Mexico border. She is often a guest speaker at journalism schools. She lives in New York. 

Copies of The Light Eaters will be available for purchase and signing courtesy of Gramercy Books.

Thank you to the Bexley Community Foundation for their generous financial support and to Rooted in Bexley, a dynamic collaboration among Bexley Bloomers, Bexley Community Gardens, Bexley Tree and
Public Gardens Commission, and Heritage Gardens for presenting this program.

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