Jeffrey Brown, AO Scott & Richard Russo: The Many – Oft Underestimated – Ways in Which Art & Literature Impact Our Lives
Wed, Aug 27
|Freeport Performing Arts Center
Jeffrey Brown, senior arts and literature correspondent for the PBS News Hour, leads a conversation with AO Scott, critic at large for the New York Times Book Review, and novelist Richard Russo about how writers and artists help translate the world around us and impact our lives.
Time & Location
Aug 27, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Freeport Performing Arts Center, 30 Holbrook St, Freeport, ME 04032, USA
About the Event
AO Scott is an American journalist and cultural critic. He started his career at The New York Review of Books. In 2000, he began writing film reviews for The New York Times and became its chief film critic in 2004. In 2023, he moved to The New York Times Book Review as a critic at large, writing about literature and ideas. His love of film was sparked during an extended visit to Paris in his teens during which he frequented independent movie theaters scattered on the Left Bank. Scott cited the growing gap between audience and critic as an impetus for his return to the book world. Scott has taught at Wesleyan University and is the author of the book Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty and Truth.
Richard Russo is a novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and teacher. He is the author of ten novels…