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Magic Mountain Talks Announces Summer 2026 Lineup in Boulder for the Ongoing Series Exploring Literature and Politics

BOULDER, Colo. — Magic Mountain Talks, a Boulder-based public event series exploring the intersections of literature and politics, announces its Summer 2026 program featuring acclaimed writers, philosophers, critics, and scholars in conversation.

Organized by Arne Höcker, with Hermione Hoby, Claire Kelley, Benjamin Kunkel, Júlia Martins-Rodrigues, and Nathan Schneider, the series is presented in partnership with the University of Colorado Boulder’s Center for Humanities & the Arts, with support from the Department of Germanic & Slavic Languages & Literatures. Magic Mountain Talks is also partially funded through a grant from CU Boulder’s 150th Initiative Fund. The series launched in January 2026 and will continue through 2027.

Magic Mountain Talks are held monthly at Trident Booksellers and Café and feature guests with a conversation partner for a wide-ranging public dialogue, followed by audience Q&A and book signings.

Upcoming Summer 2026 Events:

Jeff Sharlet on “Our Slow Civil War”

In conversation with Nathan Schneider

June 18, 2026 | 6–8 PM MDT

Trident Booksellers and Café

New York Times bestselling author Jeff Sharlet discusses his acclaimed book The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Sharlet’s work has appeared in Vanity Fair, Harper’s, Rolling Stone, and the New York Times Magazine. He will be joined by Nathan Schneider, associate professor of media studies at CU Boulder and author of Governable Spaces.

Amia Srinivasan on Politics and Psychoanalysis

In conversation with Hermione Hoby

July 16, 2026 | 6–8 PM MDT

Trident Booksellers and Café

Oxford philosopher and bestselling author Amia Srinivasan joins novelist and critic Hermione Hoby for a conversation on feminism, desire, politics, and contemporary intellectual life. Srinivasan is the author of The Right to Sex and Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at the University of Oxford.

Francesca Wade on Gertrude Stein’s Afterlife

In conversation with Claire Kelley

August 20, 2026 | 6–8 PM MDT

Trident Booksellers and Café

Francesca Wade is the author of the widely praised Square Haunting: Five Writers in London Between the Wars and has written for the New York Review of Books, Paris Review, and Granta. She will discuss her new biography, Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife, with Claire Kelley, contributor to Library Journal and publishing professional at Seven Stories Press.

All events are free and open to the public. More information and registration details are available at magicmountaintalks.org.

MEDIA CONTACT:

Claire Kelley

hello@magicmountaintalks.org

All posters designed by Júlia Martins-Rodrigues

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