Memoir: Finding a New Way of Being: Chloé Cooper Jones and Isaac Fitzgerald in Conversation
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm
Sunday, November 6, 2022
House Chamber
State Capitol, Austin

PLEASE NOTE: This session has moved from the Stateside to the House Chamber. 

In memoir Easy Beauty, Pulitzer Prize finalist Chloé Cooper Jones explores the notions of beauty that shaped her experience living with a disability and about how becoming a mother set her on a journey to reclaim her place and define her own standards.  Today Show contributor and bestselling author Isaac Fitzgerald writes in Dirtbag, Massachusetts about many lives lived while navigating trauma and how those experiences led to a new understanding: an acceptance of and generosity to himself and to others. Join Cooper Jones and Fitzgerald as they discuss finding new ways of being.<


Moderator: Deb Olin Unferth, the author of six books, most recently the novel Barn 8Chloé Cooper Jones, Isaac Fitzgerald, Easy Beauty: A Memoir, Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional

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