This event is ON! (For those of you on the old event list, apologies for the repeat. Facebook wouldn't let me change the event title after a certain amount of time after it was originally postponed and yadda yadda -- anyway, it's on for 12/15 and will be GREAT.)

You've heard him on Fresh Air with Terry Gross, seen him on the Rachel Maddow Show, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and... [read more]

This event is ON! (For those of you on the old event list, apologies for the repeat. Facebook wouldn't let me change the event title after a certain amount of time after it was originally postponed and yadda yadda -- anyway, it's on for 12/15 and will be GREAT.)

You've heard him on Fresh Air with Terry Gross, seen him on the Rachel Maddow Show, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and Real Time with Bill Maher. Now's your chance to hear Jeff in person here in Shepherdstown, where he will visit to talk about his new book, Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithlessness and the Country In Between. There will be plenty of time for Q&A and he will be available to sign books after the event.

Excerpt from a recent Washington Post review:
"Jeff Sharlet delivers a fine dose of thoughtful skepticism in “Sweet Heaven When I Die,” his collection of 13 trenchant essays on how we gain, lose, maintain and blindly accept faith. The book belongs to the tradition of long-form, narrative journalism best exemplified by writers such as Joan Didion, John McPhee, Norman Mailer and Sharlet’s contemporary David Samuels. Sharlet deserves a place alongside such masters, for he has emerged as a master investigative stylist and one of the shrewdest commentators on religion’s underexplored realms."

From recent event press:
"In Sweet Heaven When I Die (the title is taken from a lyric by singer and banjo player Dock Boggs), Sharlet engages themes of faith and doubt on an intimate level throughout the 13 collected essays, investigating the drives and beliefs of others while trying to uncover what, if anything, he believes himself. He discovers a country of prophets, fundamentalists, radicals, revolutionaries, and many others along the way. Sharlet enters the worlds of all of them, and returns with portraits of their ideas, aspirations, and journeys."

Jeff is also the author of The Family and C Street and a contributing editor to Rolling Stone and Harper's. He teaches creative nonfiction at Dartmouth College and lives in New Hampshire. He recently created OccupyWriters.com -- a website through which hundreds of writers, among them a number of literary superstars, have signed their names and published work in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement.