Gibbs Library will host Maine writers Jefferson Navicky and Ian Ludders on Saturday, July 26, at 2 p.m., in the Bryant Room. Navicky and Ludders will read from their work, discuss their writing, and engage in conversation on the theme of islands and sanctuary. Snacks and refreshments will be provided. 

Jefferson Navicky is the author of four books, most recently Head of Island Beautification for the Rural Outlands, a finalist for The Big Other Book Award in Fiction, as well as Antique Densities: Modern Parables & Other Experiments in Short Prose, which won the Maine Literary Award for Poetry. He lives in midcoast Maine. 

Ian Ludders lives half the year in a cabin in southwestern New Hampshire and half the year in a cabin on Eagle Island, East Penobscot Bay. He works odd and seasonal jobs in both places, and in recent years he’s started in on another kind of labor: making books about Eagle Island history, drawing from the oral lore of the island’s aged patriarch, Bob Quinn, with whom Ian went lobster fishing for five seasons. 

Gibbs Library in the Bryant Room, 40 Old Union Road, Washington, Maine 04574. 
 
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