Brown Bag Lunch and Learn: Creativity and Aging

Join authors Beth Weinhouse and David Galef for a discussion about creativity as a lifelong trait that can be cultivated and doesn’t have to diminish in later decades. Learn about great artists and writers who have produced work later in life and unpack misconceptions about creativity and aging. Beth and David will share how their book, the fiction anthology 20 over 60, celebrates writers over age 60 and read excerpts from select stories. Afterward, unleash your creativity in an interactive mini-flash fiction workshop, followed by a live Q&A session with the authors!

Feel free to bring your own lunch and drink (refreshments are not provided). The hall is fully accessible, and parking is free.

This event will be in partnership with Aging in Montclair.

About the Speakers

Beth Weinhouse

Beth Weinhouse has spent much of her career in journalism, both in-print and online. She’s been an editor at magazines including Ladies’ Home Journal, Self, Parenting, Prevention, Physicians’ Life, Redbook, and Reader’s Digest. While she specializes in health and wellness journalism, she’s also edited and written book reviews, news reports, investigations, travel writing, cookbooks, memoirs, and celebrity profiles.

David Galef

David Galef is an American fiction writer, critic, poet, translator, and essayist because he can’t seem to make up his mind what to specialize in, though he’s been a writer for 50 years. He’s published twenty books, from novels and short story collections and children’s books to poetry books, criticism, and translation.