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The Writing Life with Andrew Krivak and Thomas Moore

Join us at the library for an evening of conversation with acclaimed authors Thomas Moore and Andrew Krivak as they discuss the writing life, creativity, and the stories behind their newest books.

This engaging dialogue offers readers and writers a rare opportunity to hear two distinctive literary voices in conversation. The authors will reflect on their lives as writers, and matters of craft and imagination. A book signing and audience Q&A will follow the program.

Thomas Moore is the author of Care of the Soul and 30 other books on soul and spirit.  He has a new book coming out in July, The Cure at Walden Pond.  In it he includes short passages from Thoreau’s journals along with five-page responses.  In his youth Thomas was a Catholic monk and later received a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Syracuse University. He also has degrees in music composition and in theology.  He has lived in the Monadnock area for thirty years with his wife, artist Joan Hanley, and his children Abe and Siobhán. He has been on Oprah twice and now teaches a year-long online course called Imaginal Psychology and speaks all over the world on the themes of his writings.

Andrew Krivák is the author of five novels, two chapbooks of poetry, and two works of nonfiction. His 2011 debut novel, The Sojourn, was a National Book Award finalist and winner of both the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for fiction and the inaugural Chautauqua Prize. He followed The Sojourn with The Signal Flame, set in fictional Dardan, Pennsylvania. His third novel, The Bear, received the Banff Mountain Book Prize for fiction, the Massachusetts Book Award, and was a four-time National Endowment for the Arts Big Read title. Like the Appearance of Horses, released in 2023, returned to the characters and landscape of Dardan, Pennsylvania and was a Library Journal selection for “Best Literary Fiction of 2023.” His fifth novel, Mule Boy, was released in February 2026.

He holds a BA from St. John’s College, Annapolis; an MFA in poetry from Columbia University; an MA in philosophy from Fordham; and a PhD in literary modernism from Rutgers. Currently, Andrew is a discussion facilitator with the New Hampshire Department of Corrections Family Connections Center, and a Visiting Lecturer on English at Harvard. He lives with his wife and three children in Somerville, Massachusetts, and Jaffrey, New Hampshire.

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