The 10th Anniversary of LIVE from the NYPL is sponsored by the Ford Foundation. Sarah Bakewell How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer Kindle Edition by Sarah Bakewell (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 815 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition £8.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover £3.84 11 Used from £3. Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography How. LIVE from the NYPL is made possible with generous support from Celeste Bartos, Mahnaz Ispahani Bartos and Adam Bartos, and the Margaret and Herman Sokol Public Education Endowment Fund. Buy a cheap copy of How to Live or A Life of Montaigne in. In order to minimize disturbances to other audience members, we are unable to provide late seating.īecome a Friend of the Library to receive 40% off all LIVE from the NYPL tickets. We recommend arriving twenty minutes before the scheduled start time to get to your seats. She lives in Brooklyn.Ī note to our patrons: LIVE from the NYPL programs begin promptly at 7p.m. REBECCA MEAD is a staff writer for the New Yorker and the author of One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding and My Life in Middlemarch. She is currently finishing a book about existentialism. She normally lives in the U.K., where she teaches Creative Writing at Kellogg College, Oxford, but she is spending spring 2015 in New York as writer in residence at the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University. SARAH BAKEWELL is the author of three biographies, most recently How to Live: A Life of Montaigne (Other Press, 2011), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography in 2011. The New York Times called Sarah Bakewell’s biography of Montaigne “a delightful conversation across the centuries.” Now, she comes to LIVE for a conversation with Rebecca Mead that is equally sure to delight, about her own life, work, and influences.

How to Live by Sarah Bakewell