Event

First Person: Authors Talk

Robert Michael Pyle joins host Heather Hirschi for First Person: Authors Talk on Friday, December 17, at KALA. We hope you will join us for a lively conversation with the esteemed biologist and writer who has worked in conservation biology around the world.

The evenings discussion will focus on Pyles latest books, Nature Matrix: New and Selected Essays (Counterpoint Press), a 2021 finalist for PEN America's prestigious Art of the Essay Award, and Tidewater Reach: Field Guide to the Lower Columbia River in Poems and Pictures, a collection of 44 new river poems by Bob and photographs by Judy VanderMaten of Cathlamet (Columbia River Reader Press); The author of twenty-four books from poetry collections to a fight of butterfly books, Pyle is the Founder of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation and was recently named an honorary life Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society. Well loved in our coastal writing community, Pyles fame took to the screen last year with the 2020 film, The Dark Divide, which tells the story of Pyles epic journey through Washington's Gifford Pinchot National Forest. The film starred David Cross as Pyle with Debra Messing playing his late wife,Tia. Pyle lives and writes in Grays River.

Friday, December 17. Doors open at 7pm. Show at 7:30pm. Tickets $15 at www.brownpapertickets.com Limited capacity, following COVID-19 Guidelines. Proof of Vaccination or 72-hour negative test results, and masks required.

KALA , 1017 Marine Drive in Astoria. 503.338.4878