![Loading Events](https://cdn.sixthandi.org/wp/wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/src/resources/images/tribe-loading.gif)
Kate Bolick
In Conversation with Scott Stossel
- This event has passed.
Journalist Kate Bolick’s 2011 Atlantic cover story, “All the Single Ladies,” sparked a heated debate on modern notions of romance, family, career, and success. The story, drawing more than one million readers, put forth the statistic that 50% of the adult population is single (compared with 33 percent in 1950)—and that percentage is likely to keep growing.
In Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own, Bolick goes beyond the statistics and uses her personal experiences to explore why she, and more than 100 million American women, remains unmarried today. Exploring why others fear a life she has come to relish, Bolick highlights the pleasures and possibilities of remaining single and also pulls back the curtain on pioneering, unmarried women across the centuries. She examines the need to build our lives on our own terms, by our own rules, and with our own ideas of family.
Bolick also raises the question of what women living their adult lives alone (if only for a time) means for society. While a life lived alone is often seen as a waiting period—an in-between stage—what Bolick shows is that this stage itself is a viable way of life; women can live their whole lives as solo actors.
Bolick is a contributing editor for The Atlantic, freelance writer for ELLE, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. In conversation with Scott Stossel, the editor of The Atlantic. Book signing to follow.
More Info: Author's Website, Facebook, Twitter
![](https://cdn.sixthandi.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/AtlanticLogoNEW-300x99.png)
-
Jul 31, 2024 • 7:00 pm ET
Joan Baez
In Conversation with Ari Shapiro
-
Aug 14, 2024 • 7:00 pm ET
Brian Tyler Cohen with Jen Psaki
In Conversation with Shaniqua McClendon
-
Aug 17, 2024 • 7:30 pm ET
Melissa Fitzgerald and Mary McCormack
With Special Guest Martin Sheen
-
Sep 4, 2024 • 7:00 pm ET
Joe Yonan
In Conversation with Chef Rob Rubba
-
Sep 7, 2024 • 8:00 pm ET
CANCELED – Nick Mulvey
First Mind 10th Anniversary Tour 2024
-
Sep 12, 2024 • 8:00 pm ET
JOSEPH: Celebrating 10 Years
with Becca Mancari
-
Sep 14, 2024 • 7:30 pm ET
Judge John Hodgman Podcast
-
Sep 17, 2024 • 7:00 pm ET
Foreign Policy’s “Ones and Tooze” Podcast
-
Sep 18, 2024 • 7:00 pm ET
Connie Chung
In Conversation with Maury Povich
-
Oct 22, 2024 • 8:00 pm ET
Joan Osborne and Joshua Radin
-
Dec 14, 2024 • 8:00 pm ET
Stephen Wilson Jr.
-
Feb 1, 2025 • 7:30 pm ET
Florencia Cuenca and Jaime Lozano
Broadway en Spanglish