Politics & Prose at Busboys and Poets, Takoma, present Howard Axelrod to discuss his new book The Point of Vanishing: A Memoir of Two Years in Solitude.
Axelrod, who currently teaches at Grub Street in Boston, has contributed to publications including The New York Times Magazine and the Shambhala Sun. But his first book is an account of his retreat from all that; charting a process of physical and spiritual healing, this memoir begins with an injury that left him blind in one eye and ends with the insight Axelrod gained from living alone for two years in the Vermont woods, where he focused on strengthening his remaining vision and thought deeply about questions of perception and meaning.
