Author and adventurer Craig Childs will hold an author event at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Maria’s Bookshop, 960 Main Ave.
Childs dwells on desert icons – human, animal and otherwise – in essays in his new book “Virga & Bone: Essays from Dry Places.” The book is a collection focusing on a series of desert icons – a sheet of virga over Monument Valley, white seashells in dry desert sand and boulders impossibly balanced.
Childs has published more than a dozen books, including his most recent, “Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America.” He is a contributing editor at Adventure Journal Quarterly and his work has appeared in the Atlantic, New York Times and Los Angeles Times.
