Bethel’s Byrd’s Books Hosts Former VP & Recipient of Nobel Peace Prize, Al Gore this Wednesday

On Wednesday, January 5th, 2022, 7:00pm to 8:00pm, Bethel’s Byrd’s Books, the home of the prestigious online series, Write America, will host former Vice President Al Gore for a stimulating evening of conversation.

The recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize will be joined by Roger Rosenblatt, the author behind Write America, which is presented over the Crowdcast channel. The 10-year-old bookshop and community hub’s owner and host of Write America, Alice Hutchinson, notes, “Roger Rosenblatt has brought together the best literary voices of our time, whose words speak to us with truth and integrity.” Write America features award-winning, nationally renowned authors, and new and emerging writers,in readings and conversation each week about how books and art might bridge the deep divisions in our nation.

For information on and registration for each Write America event, visit ByrdsBooks.com, on which the popular independent bookstore has posted the complete calendar of conversations to date, through April 25, 2022. There, you will also find extensive author bios and, whenever possible, signed copies of the writers’ books to purchase in advance. 

Former Vice President Al Gore the founder and chairman of The Climate Reality Project, a nonprofit devoted to solving the climate crisis. He is the author of the #1 New York Times best-sellers An Inconvenient Truth and The Assault on Reason,  and most recently, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power. He is the subject of the documentary movie, An Inconvenient Truth, which won two Oscars in 2006. In 2007, Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, along with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, for “informing the world of the dangers posed by climate change.” Gore was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976, 1978, 1980, and 1982 and to the U.S. Senate in 1984 and 1990. He was inaugurated as the 45th vice president of the United States on January 20, 1993, and served eight years. 

Roger Rosenblatt is an American memoirist, essayist, and novelist. He is the author of five New York Times Notable Books of the Year, and three Times bestsellers. He has written seven off-Broadway plays and his essays for TIME magazine and the PBS Newshour have won two George Polk Awards, the Peabody, and the Emmy, among others. In 2015, he won the Kenyon Review Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement. He held the Briggs-Copeland appointment in the teaching of writing at Harvard.

A resident of Quoque, Long Island, he is currently a Distinguished Professor of English and Writing at SUNY Stony Brook/Southampton. In October 2020, Roger joined Byrd’s Books for an author’s talk on his book Cold Moon, which in part led to Write America choosing Byrd’s Books as its new home. Recently, he was honored by the Fulbright Association on its 75th anniversary.

 Byrd’s Books is located at 178 Greenwood Avenue, across from the Bethel Public Library.