In The Violet Hour, Katie Roiphe takes an unexpected and liberating approach to the most unavoidable of subjects.
She investigates the last days of six great thinkers, writers, and artists as they come to terms with the reality of approaching death, or what T. S. Eliot called “the evening hour that strives Homeward, and brings the sailor home from sea.”
Katie Roiphe will be in conversation with Kate Bolick as part of The Mount's Touchstones series on 8/18.
