Book Launch & Reading with Ethan Rutherford at Real Art Ways

North Sun

Book Launch & Reading with Ethan Rutherford
at Real Art Ways

HARTFORD, CONN. Real Art Ways presents a book launch and reading celebrating the publication of North Sun by Trinity College Creative Writing professor and author Ethan Rutherford. The book will be published on March 11. The event will be held on Friday, March 14, at 6:30 pm. Real Art Ways is located at 56 Arbor Street in Hartford, CT 06106.

Two years ago, Ethan Rutherford came to the 56 Arbor building and rented a unit on the 4th floor to write a book. This event celebrates the launch of that book - his first novel, North Sun or The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther.

ABOUT THE BOOK
Setting out from New Bedford in 1878, the crew of the Esther is confident the sea will be theirs. In addition to cruising the Pacific for whales, they intend to hunt the teeming northern grounds before the ice closes. As they sail to their final destination in the Chukchi Sea, where their captain, Arnold Lovejoy, has an urgent directive of his own to attend to, their encounters with the natural world become more brutal, harrowing, ghostly, and strange.

With one foot firmly planted in the traditional sea-voyage narrative and another in a blazing mythos of its own, this debut novel looks unsparingly at the cost of environmental exploitation and predation. In doing so, it feverishly sings not only of the past but of the present and future.

PROGRAM
6:00 pm: Doors
6:30 - 6:45 pm: Poet Clare Rossini will open the program.
6:45 - 7:15 pm: Ethan will show a short presentation and read an excerpt from North Sun.
7:15 – 8:00 pm: Book signing

Music will be performed by Sinan Bakir.

This event is FREE to the public and requires advance registration.

Books will be available (for purchase) onsite by River Bend Bookshop, on the evening of the event. Concessions will be open and available for the purchase of beverages, popcorn, and snacks.

About the Author

Ethan Rutherford is the author of two story collections: Farthest South and The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories. For these works, Rutherford has been named a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, a finalist for the John Leonard Prize and CLMP’s Firecracker Award, received an honorable mention for the PEN/Hemingway Award, was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and was the winner of a Minnesota Book Award.

Born in Seattle, Washington, he received his MFA in Creative Writing from the
University of Minnesota and now teaches Creative Writing at Trinity College. He lives in Hartford, Connecticut, with his wife and two children.

His first novel, North Sun, or the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther, will be published by A Strange Object / Deep Vellum in March 2024.