Best-selling Author Zoe Schlanger presents Light Eaters

Best-selling Author Zoe Schlanger reveals the hidden drama, intelligence, and awareness of the plant kingdom in her new book The Light Eaters

New Canaan, Conn., [June 2, 2025] – New Canaan Library is thrilled to welcome award-winning science journalist Zoë Schlanger, author of the New York Times bestseller The Light Eaters, for this year’s annual Pollinator Pathway Lecture. Join us on Tuesday, June 17 at 7:00pm for an illuminating evening as Schlanger explores the astonishing capabilities of the plant world around us.

Drawing from her deep reporting and immersive storytelling, Schlanger reveals the hidden drama, intelligence, and awareness of green life in ways that will challenge how we think about plants—and our place among them. Don’t miss this thought-provoking lecture that redefines our relationship with the natural world. This lecture is co-sponsored by the organizations comprising New Canaan’s Pollinator Pathway. Elm Street Books will be on site for book sales and signing.

Zoë Schlanger is a staff writer at the Atlantic. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, NPR, and The New York Review of Books, among other major outlets. She was the recipient of a 2017 National Association of Science Writers reporting award for coverage of air pollution in Detroit, and a finalist for the 2019 Livingston Award for a series on water politics at the Texas-Mexico border.

Photo: Yael Malka

For more information, please contact Miki Porta at mporta@newcanaanlibrary.org

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