Julia Baird will be in conversation with Maureen Dowd on her new book Bright Shining. How grace changes everything.

From the bestselling author of Phosphorescence comes a beautiful and timely exploration of that most mysterious but necessary of human qualities: grace.

Event Details:

📅 Date: Monday, November 18 2024

🕒 Time: 5:30pm for a 6:00pm start

📍 Location: Monash Room, Level 34, 150 E 42 Street, New York

🎫Tickets: FREE, registration is essential!

About the Book:

'A powerful book from one of my favorite writers on something we all need more of...and could give more of.' — Ryan Holiday, bestselling author of The Obstacle is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy

“Luminous. . . . A work to both devour and savour, Baird has, once again, written a book the world needs now.'”—Guardian

Grace is hard to define. It can be found when we create ways to find meaning and dignity in connection with each other, building on our shared humanity, being kinder, bigger, better with each other. If, in its crudest interpretation, karma is getting what you deserve, then grace is the opposite: forgiving the unforgivable, favoring the undeserving, loving the unlovable.

Sadly, we live in an era when grace is increasingly rare. Our growing distrust of the media, politicians, and each other has choked our ability to trust, to accept, to allow for mistakes, to forgive.

What does grace look like in today’s world, and how do we recognize it, nurture it in ourselves and express it, even in the darkest of times? In this luminously beautiful, deeply insightful, and timely book, Baird explores the meaning of grace and how we can cut through negativity to find it today.

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Julia Baird is an Australian journalist, broadcaster, and author. She writes columns for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age and cohosts the ABC’s Not Stupid podcast. She has previously been senior editor at Newsweek, a Joan Shorenstein fellow at Harvard, and an oped contributor for the New York Times. Her books include Media Tarts; a biography of Queen Victoria which was named one of the New York Times’ Ten Best Books of 2016; and the multi-award-winning international bestseller Phosphorescence. Julia lives near the sea with two children and an abnormally large dog.

Maureen Dowd is an American reporter and Pulitzer Prize-winning op-ed columnist for The New York Times. Dowd is well-known for her sardonic, humorous, and disputatious writing style.

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